A good turnout at Hampton for the Fur n Feather saw 20 split across Long, Meadow and Rock with everyone expecting Long to take the honours and Rock to be hardest draw.
In reality its been the reverse and all credit to Jason Connah who has drawn one of the least fancied pegs i.e. Rock p3 and fished a brilliant match from there in my opinion to end with 34.5lb of mainly carp on the feeder fishing very light gear with pellet and corn to the right hand island. This just pipped Barry Davis with 33.5lb, again from Rock p15 (I think) who fished maggot short into the deep water that the peg is known for and included some proper big perch! Mike White drew well and made no mistakes off Long p30 to record 30.7lb seeing off that Hampton regular Dougie Walsh on p32 by a couple of pound in the end.
Overall Rock and Meadow fished okay with more than half the weights on both lakes breaking 20lb and it was the originally favoured Long that many struggled on.
Well done to Barry Davis on securing the John Heald KO on the day and to Ian Lloyd for topping the Angler and Matchman of the Year for a second successive year with Billy Gore and Dougie Walsh the ever consistent chasing pair.
Finally I cant go without saying Jason was clearly on fire with only 75mins to set up, he wins the match, wins the Golden Peg and draws himself out as a Fur N Feather £20 winner!!!! I'm not complaining though as he also drew me out...thanks partner!!!
Have a great Christmas and for those not out on 30th Dec at Hampton a great New Year too!
Result
1st - Jason Connah - 34.5lb
2nd - Barry Davis - 33.5lb
3rd - Mike White - 30.7lb
By the look of that photo Jase needs to spend some of his winnings on slimfast !
ReplyDeleteI'll let you tell him Terry!
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