May 6, 2006

• Monk Lakes. Match Lake 2.

  
  Sponsored By: BR-Electrical.co.uk
  
  
  Round 2

   

  

  A 9·30 draw saw a healthy turnout of 35 anglers assembled for the 2nd round of the Charities Championship on Match Lake 2 at Monk Lakes on a cooler day than the 2 preceeding ones.
  Despite this everyone managed to get amongst the fish, predominantly Carp, Tench, Bream & Barbel ensuring some good mixed nets for most of the field, despite the temperature never rising much above 12°C and a spot of rain arriving in the afternoon.

  
  
  Winner on the day was J Davis with a very creditable 125lbs 08ozs .
  
  
  
  2nd was Paul Hamlyn with a level 114lbs .
  
  
  
  3rd with the other Ton+ bag on the day was P Speakman with 101lbs 08ozs
  
  
  
  The other 5 qualifiers for The Charities Championship Final on September 30th at Holly farm, Leicestershire were S Joy, A Smith, Dave Baptist, Russ Evans and I Carley.
  
  Section winners on the day were
  A Section
  
  S Joy 95lbs 02ozs.
  
  B Section.
  
  Dirk Williams 70lbs 08ozs
  
  AND
  
  
  S Middleton 70lbs 08ozs
  
  C Section.
  
  R Evans 88lbs 07ozs
  
  D Section.
  
  D Trustlove 58lbs 14ozs

  
  
  Total Weight brought to the scales today was 1961lbs 08ozs
  
  Lastly a few words of thanks.
  Firstly to Vince Gould for his organisation of the match on behalf of Disabled Angler.Co.Uk.

  
  

  

  
  To Simon Hughes and all the Staff at the fishery for their help and the donation of the keepnet for the “Guess the Weight” prize .
  
  And lastly to all the Anglers who took part in todays match and helped to raise £221·50p, which brings the running total up to £548·50p raised so far.
  
  Funds Handover
  
  

  

  
  Organiser Vince Gould (right) handing over the £221·50p raised from the days events, to Disabled-Angler.Co.Uk representative Peter Morton.

  Full result.

  1st	J Davis	125lb 08oz
  2nd	P Hamlyn	114lb 00oz
  3rd	P Speakman	101lb 08oz
  4th	S Joy	95lb 02oz
  5th	A Smith	91lb 12oz
  6th	D Baptist	89lb 10oz
  7th	R Evans	88lb 07oz
  8th	I Carley	83lb 08oz
  9th	L Breach	75lb 08oz
  10th=	D Williams	70lb 08oz
  10th=	S Middleton	70lb 08oz
  12th	G Mitchell	70lb 06oz
  13th	M Scanlin	69lb 12oz
  14th	M Jameson	68lb 12oz
  15th	M Marslin	65lb 08oz
  16th	M Charnock	62lb 12oz
  17th	D Trustlove	58lb 14oz
  18th	W Candy	56lb 00oz
  19th	R Swann	55lb 14oz
  20th	R Graham	54lb 04oz
  21st	P East	52lb 07oz
  22nd	T Little	52lb 02oz
  23rd	A Piper	45lb 15oz
  24th	C Sharrard	32lb 12oz
  25th	J Mc Dowell	30lb 10oz
  26th	G Curl	30lb 04oz
  27th	P Morton	30lb 02oz
  28th	V Gould	30lb 00oz
  29th	A Lewis	25lb 04oz
  30th	D Collier	24lb 10oz
  31st	N Ross	23lb 08oz
  32nd	S Castle	16lb 02oz
  33rd	D Myring	DNW
  34th	T Bailey	DNW
  35th	B Murphy	DNW

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  All in all a cracking day and nice to see Dirk and Bliss from Disabled Angler.Co.Uk in attendance for this match.
  
  Things got off to a good start with a decent breakfast, but went downhill for me when I asked Dirk to draw for me .
  As a few of you will know when Vince and I are about it gets a bit competative .
  Well Dirk did Vince proud drawing me peg 88, well away from Vince and by all accounts one of the worst pegs .
  Vince and Dirk however drew side by side, with Bliss just behind them on the island .
  A good start saw me getting amongst the resident Barbel, but after a couple of hours my bites started to dry up.
  A phone call to Vince revealed that he wasn’t flying either, although I thought that I detected a hint of confidence on his part.
  
  Bliss appeared to be enjoying himself even though sport didn’t appear to be to fast and furious for him.

  

  Towards the end I snared one of the smallest skimmers I’ve ever caught and had to net it (Fishery Rule: All Fish to be netted) much to Vince’s amusement, who saw it and remarked as much to Dirk.
  
  Come the weigh-in however I had the last laugh as I had managed to beat Vince by 2ozs .
  Dirk positively battered the 2 of us beating both our combined weights and grabbing a share of the section money .
  
  Farewells said,  Bliss, Dirk and my good self retired to a pub on our way home, where a barman was heard to wonder “where have all these moths appeared from????”
  Yes Folks, Dirk had opened his wallet and got the drinks in!!!!!

  

  A great end to good day.
  Is it possible to frame a pint of beer????

  

  

   

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