Martin had arranged a 3 Day festival over at Match Fishing Scene. Banter on the forum had been building up about the Welsh beating the English so who would come out top after the 3 days ??

Most of the guys fishing the festival were also camping over at the lake. Thursday morning at the lake it looked like some gypo’s had moved in and set up camp 😀

Thursday morning saw glorious sunshine after Wednesday nights torrential rain.  24 anglers all gathered for the draw at 12am

With the draw done everyone had plenty of time to get to their peg and set up. Fishing would be from 2pm – 7pm. The match format was 3 sections of 8 anglers. Section A was pegs 2, 4, 6, 7, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Section B was pegs 8, 9, 10, 13, 28, 29, 31 and 32. Section C was pegs 14, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24 and 26.

John Bennett was going round helping people with their pegs, giving them info on how to fish it but some people were just beyond help it seems.

Day one has seen some good weights from around the lake while others were struggling. Chris Telling was having a blinding day on peg 7 catching on corn and paste at 14.5 meters. Down in C section Pellet King  and Jonny B had been catching well, Pellet King catching shallow on 6mm banded pellet to take the section. B section had been won by Nick Merry on peg 13 catching long and short in the margins and 14.5m shallow.

Position	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Chris Telling	7	226-8
2	Caster Master	40	194-0
3	Gillbo	36	123-8
4	Kerb Crawler	2	122-6
5	Dawg	4	95-4
6	Rob B	38	66-8
7	SBW	6	48-4
8	Baz	34	17-4

Position	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Nick Merry	13	170-2
2	Mick ‘Drawbag’ Lane	10	163-12
3	Baz Wrexham	28	144-12
4	Gary Mitchell	8	140-8
5	Fred Parker	9	132-0
6	Ruddy Roach	32	64-8
7	Budgie	31	53-4
8	Dave Moore	29	42-4

Position	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Pellet King	23	195-12
2	Jonny B	16	175-2
3	Eels	26	114-0
4	Dodgy Peg	24	104-8
5	Chruch	19	85-12
6	Simple	18	42-4
7	Drawbag	14	36-8
8	Gareth Evans	21	32-4

Day 2

The anglers moved round the lake for day two in to the next section. Expectations were high for some good weights today as previous festivals  2nd day always through up some high match weights. With the draw at 12 and fishing from 2pm – 7pm again everyone had plenty of time to set up again.

Despite all the expectations the lake had fished harder on day 2. Two double tons had still come from the lake though, Phil Powell on peg 31 had fished a blinder on a peg he did not fancy after drawing it. He had to fish hard for it though, fishing at 16 meters shallow on banded pellet. Second double was from Pete Archer on peg 9 and was just a few fish away from beating Phil.

Mick Lane had won C Section fishing shallow, in the margin and 5-6 meter line on banded pellet. Pellet King had fished another excellent match in A Section fishing shallow again and in the margins.

Day 2 Results

Position	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Pellet King	40	127-8
2	Eels	2	126-8
3	Dodgy Peg	4	120-8
4	Church	6	94-8
5	Drawbag	34	86-4
6	Jonny B	7	61-8
7	Gareth Evans	36	31-4
8	Simple	38	26-10

Position	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Dawg	31	222-4
2	Caster Master	9	208-8
3	Chris Telling	10	124-12
4	Gillbo	32	59-8
5	Baz	8	54-12
6	SBW	28	52-4
7	Rob B	13	33-8
8	Kerb Crawler	29	12-00

Position	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Mick Lane	16	85-8
2	Baz Wrexham	14	68-8
3	Budgie	26	34-4
4	Fred Parker	19	24-4
5	Ruddy Roach	23	24-0
6	Gary Mitchell	24	21-0
7	Nick Merry	18	13-8
8	Dave Moore	21	2-4

After today match Martin had arranged a BBQ for everyone. Once the weigh in was complete Martin went off to ASDA to pick up BBQ supplies. Some people could not wait to get started on the beer.

Big Thanks go to Baz Wrexham, the man on the BBQ. He cooked a mean burger 😀

Day 3

The weather for the final match had turned for the worst, gone was the sunshine replaced by clouds and rain. Wet weather gear was going to be needed today 🙁

Fishing today for the final match would be earlier. The draw at 10am and fishing 12-5pm. This is to allow people to get away earlier after the presentation. With the draw done and everyone on their pegs setting up in the rain people were hoping for a good days fishing to finish the festival off in style.

Sorry some pictures are a bit fuzzy, the zoom on my camera is not that good.

Day 3 had fished hard again with only one double ton coming from the lake today. BBQ master Baz Wrexham on peg 34 had bagged up fishing a 5m line on corn winning A Section. B section was won by event organiser Church on peg 8 fishing 16m, down the track and in the bush on his left all with corn. C Section was won surprisingly on peg 21. Kerb Crawler had denied all the odd and produced a winning weight fishing the margins again on corn proving to everyone there was some fish down there after all 😀

Day 3 Results

Position	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Baz Wrexham	34	220-12
2	Nick Merry	7	120-4
3	Mick Lane	4	108-12
4	Fred Parker	40	72-4
5	Gary Mitchell	36	49-4
6	Ruddy Roach	38	34-8
7	Dave Moore	2	29-2
8	Budgie	6	8-8

Position	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Church	8	100-0
2	Pellet King	29	86-8
3	Simple	13	82-8
4	Jonny B	9	79-4
5	Gareth Evans	32	58-0
6	Drawbag	28	54-0
7	Dodgy Peg	31	42-8
8	Eels	10	40-0

Position	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Kerb Crawler	21	64-4
2	Chris Telling	23	53-12
3	Dawg	19	40-0
4	Rob B	18	33-4
5	Caster Master	16	23-0
6	Baz	14	16-8
7	SBW	26	12-8
8	Gillbo	24	11-0

Overall Section Points after the 3 Day’s ..

Pellet King 23pts.
Baz Wrexham 21pts.
Chris Telling 21pts.
Mick Lane 21pts.
Dawg 18pts.
Caster Master 18pts.
Church007 17pts.
NickM 17pts.
Jonny_B1989 15pts.
Kerbcrawler 14pts.
Eels 14pts.
Fred 14pts.
Dodgypeg 13pts.
Gary Mitch 12pts.
Gillbo 12pts.
RobB 10pts.
Simple 10pts.
Ruddy Roach 10pts.
Drawbag 9pts.
Budgie 9pts.
Baz 8pts.
Sbw 7pts.
Garethevans1986 7pts.
David Moore 4pts.

Pellet King had only dropped one point over the 3 days. Well fished mate, superb result.

Pete Archer had kindly brought along a trophy for the winner too.

A big thank you to Martin for arranging a superb festival. It was great to meet up with old friends and meeting new ones. The whole event ran smoothly.

The lake was also left how it should be. All littler, fag butts and sick was cleaned up 😀 Thanks to everyone for keeping the place so clean. this will ensure future events like this one can carry on to take place.

On a side note. Simon and Budgie were having a mini battle and Simon lost 2-1 to Budgie. Well done mate 🙁

Thanks for reading, Si and Eddie.