Conditions for this round had changed over night with thunder storms on saturday. competitors were greeted with extra water and a lot of colour for a start. This could of gone either way knowing the river has a massive amount of skimmers and bream that show normally with colour. With such a line up of quality anglers you really needed to make the most of your draws. Sean Ashby showed why he's a Top International Sean managed 4 proper bream and 4 skimmers for 11kg 050g
most sections had areas where the bigger fish feed and runner up weights were as close as you could get . Roger Marlow topped the weights with 7kg 800g made up of skimmers roach and perch . This was followed by Wayne Swincoe with 7kg 540g Wayne made a point of telling me that it wasn't until the colour started to drop out he started to catch and most of his weight came in the last 45 minutes . two tench and a couple of big perch so it shows you should never give up on your peg . Ian Sharratt has enjoyed a great run so far in the series and yet again managed to frame Ian helped with a couple of lovely tench and a few skimmers and perch put together for 7kg 250g.
You can see why we are top of the world ranking and the European as another inform International Steve Hemingrey just missed out on the main frame yet won his section and qualified for the final with 6kg 950g with local rod Joe Oaks taking 6th place with 6kg 600g the difference here is Joe made his favourite method Hemp work after taking a couple of bream early
