Experience Fishing of Newbury Invitation match 12th October 2013.

Today Experience fishing of Newbury had an open invitation for their customers and invited guests to come and experience a days fishing down at Rolfslake to see if they could catch a few of the big carp that had been coming out recently.

Co owner Dave Ridgely had very kindly offered a Maver rod as a prize to the winner of todays match so it turned out to be a little more than a pleasure fishing day for the anglers with the usual banter that these matches bring in full force at the draw.

The day was cold and breezy which certainly slowed the fishing down but there were still very big fish coming out topped by Dai Thomas’s common carp of 20-12 { well done Dai } which looked at least 25lb when he walked past me.

Dai and his 20-12 common carp.

The fishing started slow with most anglers struggling but later in the match it turned sunny which seemed to switch the fish on if only for a short while and the most to profit from this was todays winner Dai Thomas on peg 10 and although he did not catch alot of carp the ones that he did were very big and it did not take many to add up to his final weight of 100-09 and win the Maver rod { well done Dai }.

There was a four way battle for for second between Malc Doyle, Micheal Corsini, John Bennett and me on peg 9 and the key factor in this battle was who caught th most silvers to back there carp weight which was eventually won by John with his 20lb of skimmers bringing his weight to 71-11 to fend off Malc on 68 and Micheal and me on 66.

The anglers enjoyed their day and there will be a silvers only match in early November for invited guests so this should be very interesting so watch this space for more information.

Dave Ridgely co owner of Experience Fishing with todays winner Dai Thomas.

Results.

10 fished

Gain a point lose a point.

Todays match was also included in our seasons battle with John fishing peg 22 to my peg 9 and with John opting to catch all species to my targeting carp which made all the difference as his 20lb of silvers added to his carp went to 71-11 to my all carp weight of 66-04 with John winning by just 5lb { well done John }.

The score now stands at

John 16

Eddie 11

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.