5th - 7th August - Glebe

Well this sounds strange writing this so long after the event itself but work and life have been a little busy of late but here goes.........

A few of us stayed and fished a fourth day on the Glebe and the locals confirmed the strips were not fishing well as the Monday before we got there Lake 6 had been won with 68lb and the whole complex bar Lake 1 was fishing below par. Now just to clarify par is fairly high by the standards we have up here in the northwest so here's the summary.

Over 3 days we had 4457lb of fish and had 15 weights over 100lb with Wed averaging 54lb per man Fri 50lb per man and actually Thurs set a new WBAC record with an average of 94lb per man which was 2174lb caught on the day!

Wednesday saw the top three all break the ton with Jeff Grantham 105.8lb from the middle of Lake 7 just sneaking ahead of Colin Cook sat on the Lttle Girls peg at the end of Lake 6 with 104.3lb. Phil Henry had 103.3lb for 3rd from another end peg on Lake 7 (CC and PH in the same car both with end pegs....Picasso and Da Vinci springs to mind!).

Thursday saw the prolific Lake 1 in use and the top 10 all broke the 100lb barrier with Jason Connah in the top section with 155lb just edging out Paul Robinson in the lower section with 154lb. To show its consistency the middle section went to Colin Cook with 143lb and 3rd overall.

Friday was the hardest day with the most anglers on the bank and just two 100lb weights, Paul Robinson topping Lake 7 with 125.5lb of mainly edge fish. Ian Simpson topped Lake 5 with 103lb and Colin Cook topped Lake 6 with 83.6lb (from the opposite end peg this time!!!OMG)

The Ronny Ashbrooke pairs event (which were redrawn after some moaning about the teams and seeding favouring the pairs over the threesomes) ended up being a runaway victory over the Thurs and Fri for Jason Connah and Paul Robinson who in 2 days had 496lb leaving Ian Simpson and Rick Keeley a long way behind in second with a 2 day total of 370lb before the rest of the pack at 289lb

(NB: When I reworked the Ronnie Ashbrooke results using the original draw the threesomes would have taken 1st and 3rd........not that I need to be right I'll have you know.......but I told ya.........the seeding was right after all and there was less than 50lb between the top 3 teams!!)

Wed - Lakes 4,6,7

1st - Jeff Grantham - 105.8lb (Peg 104 Lake 7)
2nd - Colin Cook - 104.3lb (Peg 86 Lake 6)
3rd - Phil Henry - 103.3lb (Peg 98 Lake 7)

Thurs - Lakes 1,4

1st - Jason Connah - 155.8lb (Peg 26 Lake 1)
2nd - Paul Robinson - 154.5lb (Peg 2 Lake 1)
3rd - Colin Cook - 143.8lb (Peg 16 Lake 1)

Fri - Lakes 5,6,7

1st - Paul Robinson - 125.5lb (Peg 105 Lake 7)
2nd - Ian Simpson - 103.0lb (Peg 85 Lake 5)
3rd - Colin Cook - 83.8lb (Peg 97 Lake 6)