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The Terry Freeman Memorial Match 2009

It was a brilliant day, the weather was fishing perfect – slightly over cast, little breeze – dry all day!Starting with breakfasts from 7.00am and ending with presentation and BBQ after the 5 hour match, total prize fund is over £1200 with 5 peg sections and trophies for all plus winner takes all pools – split into seeded and unseeded to give the less experienced a chance!

The fishing was great too – no blanks, even from the less experienced fishers – who only ever fish on this day each year and this match is attended by people who travelled from all over the country and who do not get the opportunity to practice.

Winning weight was 99lb from Cherry Lake by Alan Oakes of Stevenage using corn on the hook over method feeder towards the island.

Runner Up was Michael Smith, GOT Baits, of Hemel Hempstead with 83lb 4oz on peg 2 Fringe Lake at 10metres using paste; he had 17 carp to 7lb and 10 crucians.

Third was Graham West of Luton on the next peg to Michael peg 3 Fringe , with 71lb 14oz

Fourth was ever consistent Mark Pollard, Fox International, of Bedford, 66lb 6oz (the devils code!) from Cherry Lake

Fifth the amazing Graham Dack of Romford with 64lb 8oz carp from Orchid Lake Seeded Pairs was won on points by Darryl Anderson who had 61lb on Cherry (2 points) and Jimmy Wilson on Orchid Lake with 23lb 12oz (1 point).

Sections Results:

Fringe:

1-5 Kevin Wilmot 62lb 4oz

6-10 James Draculic 55lb 7oz

11-15 Tony Marti 55lb 7oz

Orchid:

1-5 Dave Vincent 42lb 14oz

6-10 Jimmy Wilson 23lb 12oz

11-15 Steve Clark 50lb 10oz

16-20 Dean Field 14lb 6oz

Cherry:

1-5 Steve Tyler 24lb 4oz

6-10 Graham Smith 31lb 6oz

11-15 Darryl Anderson 61lb 0oz

16-20 John Weedon 57lb 12oz

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The Final, Evening Series 2009 results are as follows:

Gary Page on peg 15 with 64lb12oz carp – on top of the pools he won a Browning 525 Champions Choice pole and accessories worth over £1000.

Second was Steve Slater, who also won the 8 match series last week, with 44lb 1 oz of carp and crucians from peg 4

Evening Series Winners

Third Thomas Moretti 14yrs old, who caught 43lb 9oz carp from peg 2.

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The Final Qualifier of the Evening Series a 3 hour match on Fringe Lake, was won last night by James Draculic of Bedford with an amazing 91lb 5oz of carp from peg 19 using trout pellet on pole in the margins. Second was Steve Slater of Bedford Highfield Tricast, using paste on pole on peg 2 with 68lb 13oz of carp all caught in the last hour of the match. Third was Gary Page of Dunstable, with a catch of mainly crucians and roach for 43lb 11oz from peg 3.

The overall winner of the qualifiers on points is Steve Slater with 11 points over 8 matches closely followed by Michael Smith, Bedford , GOT Baits, with 15 points remainder as follows:

3^rd James Draculic 20 points

4^th Gary Page 21 points

5^thBryn Wignall 22 points

6^th Tony Taylor 31 points

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The 2009 Browning Tingrith evening Series, sponsored by Browning to the tune of £3000, has kicked off to an amazing start.

The record on Fringe lake for a three hour match was smashed by Steve Slater, Tricast Highfield, Bedford, with 111lb 9oz from permanent peg 10. 73lb of carp and 37lb of roach and rudd. The carp were caught on the pole down the edge, meat and pellet and maggot were used to attract the silver fish.

Second was Gary Page, GOT Baits, of Luton who had a fabulous net of 86lb 7oz made up of 68lb small carp and crucians plus 19lb of silver fish all caught from peg 4 up in the water on pellet.

Third place was taken by Michael Smith GOT baits, also from Luton with 60lb 6oz of which 46lb were large carp and 14lb roach & rudd Michael was using paste down the edge on peg 19 in the reeds.This match is fished from 6 – 9pm so the photos are taken of the early weighs and it was dark by the time we got to Michael!

Pictures show Steve Draculic of Bedford who caught 45lb of roach & rudd of peg 2, and Gary Page with some of his 86lb bag.

Tickets are available from tel: 01525 714012

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Steve Draculic of Bedford who caught 45lb of roach & rudd of peg 2

Gary Page with some of his 86lb bag

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36hr Match on Orchid Lake

Our First 36hr Match on Orchid Lake was a huge success – so much so they want another one!

Fished from 9.00pm Friday evening to 9.00am Sunday Morning. Breakfast and dinner served up to the anglers at their pegs on Saturday and a relaxing breakfast in the Café on Sunday morning, interspersed with cups of tea at frequent intervals – all very civilised!

The winner was Leigh McKinney of Luton who had 212lb 13oz carp and roach and mixed fish caught using varying methods, one fish broke his pole in 2 places, pole and ledger,,pellet and boilies.

Second was Linda Billington of Bedford with 169lb 4oz carp and roach also using pole and ledger – mixed tactics over the period of time – she says she didn’t sleep – a little bit of cat napping on her box and woke up when she started talking to herself!

Third was Bernie Simpson of Luton who had a very good catch of carp to all sizes for 105lb 9oz.

All this despite the torrential rain on Saturday night.

36hr Match on Orchid Lake Winner Leigh McKinne

36hr Match on Orchid Lake Group

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12 hour Fun Match & BBQ Tingrith Fishery

We had a very busy day on Saturday running, for the first time, a 12 hour match on our Fringe Lake.

With a weigh-in every 4 hours it kept us occupied all day running round!

Interestingly the second weights weren’t affected a great deal by the emptying of the nets after the first 4 hours. The last 4 hours saw a change in the carp coming on in the evening session.

The winning weight was caught by Linda Billington of Bedford on peg 19 with a tremendous 181lb 12oz approx. 80lb of which were crucians and silver fish with the rest carp, all caught on a pole using pellet and paste at 14 mts

Runner up was Ricky Stone of Finchley, North London, with 130lb 5oz of roach, ruddy & crucians up in the water.

A close third was to Pip Bolam, also of Bedford with 103.12 oz in peg 8 and the 4th place went to Vic Jackson with 103lb exactly!

The 12 gruelling hours were followed by a very welcome BBQ and refreshments.