Angler’s Mail – July 09, 2019

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Lee Weaves his magic
BREAM fed well on a coloured River
Weaver at Northwich in the third
Angling Trust RiverFest 2019 heat.
Welsh International Lee Edwards
(Maver) topped the 60-pegger with
37 lb 3 oz of pole-tempted ‘slabs’,
eels, perch and a bonus tench from
end peg in A Zone.
Lee’s win thwarted fellow
Welshman Andrew ‘Spud’ Murphy
(Shakespeare), who took second
with 30 lb 6 oz from the same zone.
Joining Lee in the Final will
be Drennan Barnsley Blacks
manager Glenn Lawrence, B Zone
winner with 28 lb 13 oz, and David
Thornley who topped C Zone with
24 lb 12 oz.

McKinley eyes

Maver jackpot
A POTENTIAL £60,000 jackpot
in the Maver Match This Final
beckons for Ryan McKinley, winner
of the latest qualifi er, which drew
79 entrants to Cheshire’s Partridge
Lakes complex.
Drawn on peg 4 on Covey Pool
1, Ryan extracted 166 lb 6 oz of
mainly F1s on pole and pellets to

THIS Saturday, July 13, Maver

Hayfi eld Lakes hosts the 26th

annual Fish‘O’Mania Final, with

live TV coverage on Sky Sports

throughout the event, with half-

hourly weigh-ins.

At stake is the coveted

title and trophy, along with a

£50,000 winner’s cheque, with

a £10,000 consolation for the

runner-up in the 24-qualifi er

fi eld.

A hot pre-draw favourite for

the crown is Jamie Hughes,

whose victories in 2013, 2015

and 2017 made him the fi rst

ever triple Fish‘O’Mania champ.

Andy May, victorious in 2016,

is another fi nalist who knows

what it takes to win this match.

Former Angler’s Mail

Matchman of the Year winners

Andy Bennett and Lee

Thornton are surely both due

another ‘major’ title soon?

And who could ignore the

talents of Will Raison, the multi-

capped England International

and 2008 World Champion.

Current England Youth

international Jordan Holloway

is another fi nalist currently in

superb form. Could he become

an even younger champion

than last year’s winner Pete

Black, who was aged just 21?

Give any of those anglers a

decent draw and it’s sure to

be ‘game on’! But the same

can be said of all of the other

fi nalists, who seized their

opportunity in qualifying heats

and will be going all-out to

repeat the feat on the big stage.

This year’s Final includes

two overseas heat winners

• Dutchman Carl Visser and
  Germany’s Markus Billen – plus
  only the second female fi nalist
  in Fish’O history, Abbi Kendall.
  Alongside the main event are
  six-angler Ladies and Junior
  Fish’O Finals, the winner of
  each collecting £1,000.

book his megabucks shot, ahead

of James Howarth and Mitch

Rawlinson, who both drew on

Covey 4, and mustered 151 lb 9 oz

and 146 lb 8 oz from pegs 92 and

89 respectively.

Power succeeds

on the ’spill

ALL-ROUND match superstar

Andy Power made a guest

appearance for Garbolino

Blackmore Vale in Round Two of

the South West Superleague, on

Somerset’s River Huntspill, and

duly won the 56-pegger with

55 lb 2 oz of feeder-tempted

bream to 6 lb.

PI-backed Andy drew closest

to the car park at Woolavington

up, where he fed micro pellets

and casters, baiting his hook

with worms, to see off closest

rival Nigel Evans (Daiwa Gordon

League) with 47 lb 8 oz from two

pegs away.

PI Thatchers won fi ve sections,

to pip Daiwa Gordon League by

45 points to 44, extending the

league lead over their fi erce

rivals to 87 points to 83.

Match News IN BRIEF

Dynamite result for

Donny rod Wright

DONCASTER matchman Paul

Wright scooped a cool £10,

champion’s cheque in the

inaugural Dynamite Baits Swim

Stim In The Mix Final, at his

local Maver Hayfi eld Lakes.

A mighty 114 kg 780 g haul

from peg 70 on Island Lake

helped Paul (Halkon Hunt/Willy

Worms) see off a sustained

challenge from Jon Arthur

(Dynamite Baits), who fi nished

with 103 kg 30 g, from peg 80

on the same lake.

“I’m absolutely buzzing.

All the near misses and effort

I’ve put into my fi shing has

fi nally paid off,” said Paul, who

admitted to “really fancying”

his peg on arrival – despite it

seldom being a match winner.

“I knew there would be no

fi sh on the deck on such a hot

All eyes on Hayfi eld for Fish‘O’Mania Final

day, so I set up two mugging

rigs for the pole, and two

waggler rods. After a steady

start, it died off a bit mid-

match, but I managed to pick

up a few more fi sh right up

to the end,” added Paul, who

thanked Dynamite Baits and

Hayfi eld owners Robin and

Noelie Goforth for running and

hosting the event.

Paul Wright with his In The Mix trophy and cheque, and (inset) with part

of his winning catch at Hayfi eld Lakes.

ENGLAND International Lee
Kerry made a happy return to
his youthful hunting ground of
the River Yare, winning a Feeder
Masters qualifi er on the Norfolk
river with 17 lb 12 oz, from peg 91.
Joining Yorkshire-based Lee

(Preston Innovations) in the

two-day Final at Devon’s Tamar

Lakes will be Brian Clarke, who

topped B Zone with 16 lb 1 oz,

at peg 120, and Mark Murdoch,

whose 14 lb 9 oz catch topped C

Zone, at the downstream end.

Feeder Masters Yare qualifi ers, from left: Clarke, Kerry and Murdoch.

Happy Yare return for Lee

Lee

Edwards

won the

RiverFest

Weaver

qualifi er.

Maver Final

qualifi er

Ryan

McKinley at

Partridge

Lakes.