Match Fishing Report

Abbey Angling

On Tuesday the 19th of March we fished the third round of the Abbey Spring cup at the El Bosquet complex. This was a national holiday in Valencia and we saw the highest ever attendance for a club match as 31 anglers attended. This meant that with one pleasure angler already fishing and one waiting to see what peg was left the venue was completely full to capacity.

The match was broken up as per usual into sections with one section of 4 anglers, four sections of 5 and a large section of 7 on pegs 8 to 16.The weather was set fair and the match was mainly fished in calm sunny conditions.

Winner on the day with a great weight of 23.78kg from peg 10 was Tony Felstead, he fished the pole long with maggots to take some quality carp.

In second place from the adjacent peg, 11 was Alan Priest. Alan fished the method feeder with maggot and weighed 18.42kg

Alan was closely followed from the next peg 12 by our very own Victor Meldrew, Richard Wood. Richard used the same tactics as Alan and fished a very uneventful match to catch mullet and carp fpr 17.08kg.

The other sections were won by Russell Davidson on peg A1 with 9.62kg. Lenny Bolton on peg 4 with 15.48kg.Barry Homer on peg 26 with 8.89kg. Alan Hill with a magnificent 15.80kg from peg 31 and finally Willy moons with 6.70kg from peg 40.

Considering the large number of anglers fishing, the venue fished really well with a total weight of over 244kg thats 539lb in old money and an average weight of 7.89kg or again just over 17lb per man.

I am sorry I was unable to attend the match on Wednesday but I believe it was won by Neil McBirnie with 33kgs.