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Dynamite Bait Festival - Day 2

Dynamite Bait Festival

Day Two

The festival got off to a good start and we could only hope for a repeat performance from today’s fishing, unfortunately the weather has taken a bit of a bad turn and the rain is back with a vengeance!

A Section Twin Oaks/Trelawney

Great weights of the low numbers on Twin Oaks today and although the high numbers did not fish as well than the previous day the results were close, the weights on Trelawney are not quite competing with Twin Oaks but there was an overall improvement. The lake winner today was Tyrone Hull on Twin Oaks peg 10, Tyrone caught on the feeder with meat & pellet for a weight of 135lb 7oz. Nick Speed weighed in with 102lb 11oz to take second, Nick was on Twin Oaks peg 14 and caught on the method in the early part of the match then switched to the short pole with meat for the last two hours. Third on Trelawney peg 25 was Andy Geldart, Andy caught 12 carp on the bomb & meat for a weight of 71lb 11oz. On Trelawney peg 20 Steve Conway had the next overall best weight, Steve weighed in with 63lb 14oz caught on the pole to the island with pellet and meat down the edge.

Section Winners

Tyrone Hull                 9 points           peg 10             137lb 15oz

Andy Geldart              9 points           peg 25             71lb 11oz

Matt Grant                  9 points           peg 21             58lb 9oz

Alan Hodgeon                        9 points           peg 12             56lb 2oz

B Section Trewaters

It was a hard day over on Trewaters again today and although the overall weights were lower there were a few more fish were caught than the previous day. Joe Carass was the lake winner today with 29lb 5oz; Joe was on peg 22 and caught on the waggler with maggot. Second was John Battersby on peg 40, John caught on the pole with 4mil pellets for a weight of 28lb. Tony Watling was third with 26lb 2oz, Tony was on peg 26 and caught down the edge on meat. Paul Goldstraw had the next best weight with 25lb 4oz; Paul caught on the pole at 13 meters in front of him with pellet and down the edge with pellet & corn later on and was on peg 54.

Section Winners

Joe Carass                   9 points           peg 22             29lb 5oz

John Battersby                        9 points           peg 40             28lb

John Chapman                        9 points           peg 21             24lb 8oz

Andy Nelson               9 points           peg 47             15lb 14oz

C Section Porth

Despite a bitter wind blowing through the valley where the reservoir is the weights seemed a lot better with three out of the four sections producing at least one double figured weight. Matt Godfrey took the lake win today with 14lb 6oz; Matt was on peg 39 and caught on the pole with maggot over groundbait. There was a joint weight for second on the lake with both Paul Cannon and Steve Sanders weighing in with 12lb 2oz. Paul Cannon was on peg 35 and caught on the waggler with maggot and Steve Sanders caught on the feeder with worm from peg 78. Lee Edwards on peg 36 had the next best weight with 11lb, Lee caught on the waggler with worm.

Section Winners

Matt Godfrey              9 points           peg 39             14lb 6oz

Steve Sanders             9 points           peg 78             12lb 2oz

Callum Dicks              9 points           peg 22             10lb 4oz

Cameron Hughes        9 points           peg 89             7lb 15oz

D Section Bolingey

Another good day on Bolingey with five decent ton weights being produced. Alan Scotthore was today’s lake winner on peg 23, Alan caught on pellet across and meat down the edge for a weight of 145lb 5oz. Second with 138lb13oz was Dave Hillier, Dave was on peg 45 and caught at 13 meters up in the water with 6 mil pellet. Tim Nash took third on peg 18 with 136lb 14oz, Tim caught on the feeder and straight lead with meat & bread. Ashley Clements had the next best weight on the lake with 131lb 13oz; Ashley was on peg 44 and caught shallow on pellet.

Section Winners

Alan Scotthorne          9 points           peg 23             145lb 5oz

Tim Nash                     9 points           peg 18             136lb 14oz

Ashley Clements         9 points           peg 44             131lb 13oz

Peter Forman               9 points           peg 46             75lb 2oz

E Section Pollawyn

It was a reasonably good day all round on Pollawyn and we saw the best weight of the festival being produced so far with today’s winner. Some of the pegs struggled but the weights were close across the section. Nigel Smith was the lake winner with the best weight to come from Pollawyn so far this year, Nigel weight in with 163lb 8oz from peg 28 caught on the waggler with pellet. Second on the lake with 113lb 4oz was Andrew Dargue, Andrew caught on the bomb & waggler with 8 mil pellets from peg 25. Andy Dare on peg 18 was third with 67lb 8oz, Andy caught on the waggler with pellet. The next best weight came from Marc Jones on peg 45, Marc caught on the method with meat for a weight of 62lb 2oz

Section Winners

Nigel Smith                 9 points           peg 27             163lb 8oz

Marc Jones                  9 points           peg 45             62lb 2oz

Harry Billing               9 points           peg 15             57lb 1oz

Tony Stevenson          9 points           peg 10             44lb 13oz

That was day two and here is how the leader board currently stands.

Overall Top Twenty

1^st        Joe Carass                   18 points         168lb 10oz

2^nd        Alan Scotthorne          18 points         165lb 14oz

3^rd        Tim Nash                     18 points         147lb 13oz

4^th        Tony Stevenson          18 points         136lb 13oz

5^th        Matt Godfrey              18 points         38lb 10oz

6^th        Jamie Parkhouse          17 points         175lb 13oz

7^th        Steve Conway             17 points         158lb 1oz

8^th        Ashley Clements         17 points         140lb 4oz

9^th        Marc Jones                  17 points         124lb 10oz

10^th      Dean Smith                 17 points         105lb 5oz

11^th      Brian Bennett              17 points         102lb 7oz

12^th      Jarrad Smith                17 points         59lb 1oz

13^th      Steve Ringer               17 points         47lb 4oz

14^th      Callum Dicks              17 points         34lb 12oz

15^th      Tommy Pickering        17 points         30lb 14oz

16^th      Nick Speed                 16 points         163lb 1oz

17^th      Andy Bennett             16 points         149lb 10oz

18^th      Harry Billing               16 points         135lb 11oz

19^th      Russ Grimes                16 points         116lb 15oz

20^th      Lee Kerry                    16 points         102lb 3oz

We have 5 anglers on maximum points with the rest of the pack closely following behind. The rain looks set to be in for the rest of the week which is not the best of the news for the anglers but the show must go on, can anyone in the top spot achieve another perfect result, we reach the mid-way point of the festival tomorrow and some will be hoping for a bit more luck at the draw bag. Join us tomorrow for the latest update.

Cheers, Kirsty

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