Winter Veterans Festival 2017

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Welcome to the Winter Veterans festival 2017. We have 95 anglers over the age of 55 fishing over 4 days in 6 peg sections rotating between Twin Oaks, Trelawney, Jennys, Pollawyn, Sycamore and Python. The weather has been a cold with lots of sunshine on the first day. Great start!!!

Read on for the first day’s action…

Day One

Today’s winner on Twin Oaks was Harry Billing peg 14 with 94lb 13oz; Harry fished the method feeder and meat in the margins. Ivan Lord managed second place with 69lb 6oz from peg 28, Ivan. Finishing third on peg 17 with a weight of 67lb 12oz was Robert Ellis and John Haley took fourth place on peg 15 weighing in at 60lb.

First place on Trelawney was Colin Mulholland from peg 5. Second place on the day was Colin Perry from peg 11. Trevor Pearce finished in third place with 35lb 7oz from peg 17 and finishing in fourth place was John Pantry with 26lb 3oz from peg 25.

First place on Pollawyn was Danny Sixsmith from peg 20 with 29lb 7oz, Second on the day was John Waterhouse on Jennys from peg 18 with 28lb 4oz. Third place was Roy Basham on Jennys from peg 8 with 27lb 11oz and fourth place was Steve Williams on Pollawyn from peg 31 with 20lb 8oz.

Andy Dare took first place today on Sycamore with a weight of 87lb 1oz from peg, Andy fished the long pole with pellet. Second place on the day was Graham Stokes on Python from peg 10 with 70lb 10oz; Graham caught pellet shallow on the long pole. Third place went to David Cleaver from peg 16, David caught in the margins with maggots and forth place went to John Stewart Lister from peg 13 with 31lb 8oz.

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Day Two

Today’s winner on Trelawney was Steve Warner peg 10 with 48lb 3oz, Steve fished the pole at 6M with worm and caster. Robert Ellis managed second place with 43lb 7oz from peg 27, Robert fished long pole with pellet. Finishing third on peg 23 with a weight of 41lb 11oz was Harry Billing and Tony Holdsworth took fourth place on peg 7 weighing in at 36lb 8oz.

First place on Jennys was Colin Mulholland from peg 6 with 32lb 4oz, Colin fished the long pole with pellet. Second place on the day was Malcolm Proctor also on Jennys from peg 18. Malcolm was fishing the maggot feeder. Mick Cook on Pollawyn finished in third place with 17lb 12oz from peg 27 and finishing in fourth place was Simon Gould on Pollawyn with 17lb 1oz from peg 19.

First place on Python was Tony Buttler from peg 26 with 43lb swapping between the short and long pole with worms, Second on the day was Neil Edwards on Sycamore from peg 16 with 36lb 8oz fishing he long pole using corn. Third place was Jimmy Garside on Sycamore from peg 11 with 27lb 14oz and fourth place was Richard Hall on Sycamore from peg 12 with 27lb 2oz.

Alex Cockburn took first place today with a weight of 54lb 8oz from peg 15. Second place on the day was Andy Dare from peg 9 with 50lb 9oz; Andy caught swapping between feeder with pellet and the pole with meat. Third place went to Kelvin Acton from peg 22 and joint fourth place went to Kelvin Wetherell from peg 19 with 47lb 2oz and Jim Smith from peg 28 also weighing in at 47lb and 2oz.

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Day Three

Today’s winner on Jennys was Robert Ellis peg 20 with 46lb 6oz, Robert fished the pole at 14M using pellet. Geoff Vallance fishing on Pollawyn managed second place with 31lb 3oz from peg 20, Geoff fished long pole with maggot and also used the method feeder. Finishing third on peg 8 Jennys with a weight of 27lb 2oz was Ken Russell and Harry Billing on Pollawyn took fourth place on peg 26 weighing in at 22lb 10oz.

First place on Python was John Pantry from peg 36 with 59lb 5oz, John fished the long pole to the island using pellets. Second place on the day was Colin Mulholland also on Python from peg 10 with a weight of 51lb 9oz. Colin fished long pole using pellet, shallow and deep. Tony Oatley on Sycamore finished in third place with 33lb from peg 16 and finishing in fourth place was George Joyce on Sycamore with 26lb 2oz from peg 7.

First place on Twin Oaks was Len Hignell from peg 15 with 82lb 14oz swapping between the short pole with corn and method feeder using pellet, Second on the day was Peter Bowles from peg 14 with 49lb 12oz. Third place was Roy Basham from peg 25 with 43lb 8oz and fourth place was Nick Callaghan from peg 24 with 42lb 5oz.

Andy Dare took first place today with a weight of 45lb 15oz from peg 11 fishing pole at 13M using pellet. Second place on the day was Mick Wilkinson from peg 32 with 31lb 15oz; Mick caught at 16M using pellet. Third place went to Colin England from peg 13 weighing 30lb and fourth place went to Stewart Lister from peg 20 with 25lb 9oz.

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Final Day

Today’s winner on Python was Harry Billing peg 15 with 51lb 14oz, Harry fished the long pole deep using 4mm pellet. David Richardson fishing on Sycamore managed second place with 50lb 10oz from peg 12. Finishing third on peg 9 Python with a weight of 28lb was Geoff Harris and Ken Russell on Sycamore took fourth place on peg 13 weighing in at 27lb 7oz.

Coming first place was Trevor Pearce from peg 12 with 76lb 11oz, Trevor fished at 9 metres using corn. Second place on the day was Dave Pickering from peg 36 with a weight of 65lb 10oz. Dave fished short pole with maggots. George Joyce finished in third place with 49lb 8oz from peg 15 and finishing in fourth place was Tony Troth with 38lb 2oz from peg 24.

First place on Trelawney was Tony Butler from peg 11with 46lb 8oz fishing the short pole, down the edge with worms, Second on the day was Mike O’Gorman from peg 8 with 37lb 3oz. Third place was Danny Sixsmith from peg 28 with 36lb 4oz and fourth place was Mel Pears from peg 32 with 31lb 9oz.

Martin Austin took first place today with a weight of 29lb 11oz from peg 17 fishing the method feeder using meat. Second place on the day was Mick Wilkinson from peg 15 with 29lb 8oz; Mick caught at 14M using pellet. Third place went to Graham Scott from peg 9 weighing 29lb and fourth place went to Andy Dare from peg 15 with 28lb.

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