Saturday Open Match 3rd May 2025
John Bennetts birthday open.
Today we got a chance to wish John a happy birthday for the previous day but there were no fishing favours for him in today’s match.
It was a beautiful day down the lake, sunny amd warm and this triggered the silvers to have a feed.
Todays’s overall winner was lake regular Nigel who was fishing motorway bank peg 4, he fished bomb and maggot in the bowl to catch carp and bream for his winning weight of 77-02.
Winning the top carp weight was Phil Cairns who was on peg 28 and Phil caught carp to double figures in his weight of 59-12.
The battle for the King of Silvers took another turn as Martin Page took on Brian, Dick and JB today on unfancied peg 14.
Martin’s peg was in full sun but he put together a beautiful bag of bream in his winning weight of 26-13, just keeping ahead of Brian Hutchings who caught 24-00 from peg 34 ( well done Martin).
Specimen angler of the day Steve Page caught a variety of species today which included Bream, Roach, the new Ghost mirror carp and also Tommy the Tench.
To round off the day we were treated to a lovely buffet prepared by Pauline and a John was treated to a magic trick by Nigel lol.
Results
12 Fished
| Place | Angler | Peg | Carp | Silvers | Total |
| 1st | Nigel | 4 | 66-03 | 10-15 | 77-02 |
| 2nd | Phil Cairns | 28 | 59-12 | 5-02 | 64-14 |
| 3rd | Darren Simms | 13 | 56-01 | 3-02 | 59-03 |
| 4th | Kev Simpson | 38 | 35-10 | 6-05 | 41-15 |
| 5th | Martin Page | 14 | 26-13 | 26-13 | |
| 6th | Brian Hutchings | 34 | 24-00 | 24-00 | |
| 7th | Jason | 36 | 13-14 | 4-11 | 18-09 |
| 8th | Steve Page | 24 | 12-06 | 12-06 | |
| 9th | John Bennett | 32 | 9-11 | 9-11 | |
| 10th | Dick Cullen | 8 | 7-09 | 7-09 |
Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.