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This year's youth match was held
on Saturday, 19th June at Puddledock Farm Fisheries. Fishing was
from 9am to 4pm with 13 junior members, just 4 less than last year,
taking part. The morning started with the juniors drawing their
pegs as well as receiving their gifts of an unhooking mat and landing
net. These prizes were awarded from the proceeds raised from the
auction of fishing tackle belonging to KPAC stalewort, Jon Butler.
Sadly, Jon passed away a few years ago and the club has always wanted
to use this money to good effect and providing the clubs own junior
members with some quality tackle was deemed to be the most fitting
solution.
As always, bait was handed out to all anglers before the start and
with their new equipment eager to be used, the whistle blew for
the start of the match at 9am. A slow start to begin with and only
a handful of fish being landed during the first period although
Ryan Barry landed a couple that would certainly stand him in good
stead for the rest of the match. After a few cloudy spells and a
brief hour stop for lunch, everyone began fishing again at 1pm for
the final 3 hours where newcomer Ellie Winston managed to hook into
several decent fish, putting her in touch with the leader. While
most of the participants were going after the carp, Tayci Arnold
decided a "catch anything and everything" approach was
the way to go and in the end this won her a prize for landing the
most number of species, including roach, rudd, skimmers, bream,
carp etc.
Damon Maskell tried to keep in touch with the leaders and landed
some beautiful carp during the mid-way stage but his afternoon session
proved to be a little too quiet for his liking.
As the day wore on, a few noteable fish were lost which could have
made all the difference but it was to be Ryan's day with a creditable
18lb in the net. Similar to Jack Worton in 2007 where at
10 years of age he was the youngest angler on the day, this time
around it was the turn of Ellie Winston. At the age of 8, she managed
to turn in a great performance landing 12lb 8oz and coming a creditable
5th during her first ever match.
Last year we asked the question as to whether or not we'd have another
good day of sunshine and fishing and although there were a few overcast
and windy moments during the match, we weren't disappointed this
time around. Everyone got on with the job in hand and had a great
time again with excellent behaviour from all concerned who were
a credit to the club.
KPAC would also like
to thank DECATHLON of Lakeside, Bowlers Angling and Robertson's
Tackle for their kind donations of bait and prizes which have all
been put to excellent use.
Overall, 95lb of fish was landed,
just a slight downturn on last years figure of 108lb so the only
thing to do is do it all again next year!
At the 4pm whistle, a weigh-in took place to determine the overall
placings and these were as follows:
1st Ryan Barry - 18lb 13oz
2nd Damon Maskell - 15lb 12oz
3rd Warren Hampshire - 13lb
Prizes awarded this year: Ryan won a Match Seat, Damon collected
a 11m margin carp pole and Warren bagged a 5 piece luggage set.
Prizes and medals will be awarded at the presentation evening and
we hope to see you all there.
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