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Dave Vincent, 46, a maintenance engineer and England International from Stratford, East London, recorded the best individual weight in the National Championships since it began in 1906 with a winning weight of 56.010kg.
A total of 62 teams of 12 anglers fished the Embassy Division One National Championships on the river Cam and Great Ouse on Saturday, 29 September.
The winning team was ex-England manager Dick Clegg's Team Ossett with 553 points.
Following a late start when the team coach was sent to the wrong section, Vincent, fishing for the Dagenham Bowler's AC, and pegged on a known bream hot-spot in G section, began with a feeder rod that was already set up and had a bite first cast.
He fished worm and caster cocktail on a 14's hook to 3½lb line. He said, "My peg was solid with fish and I landed 32 bream up 2.50 kg. In the early stages I was having a fish every cast but I didn't have a bite for the last hour. I just had to sit it out and I heard on the grapevine that Richie Hull was catching me up in D Section. I was delighted when I heard that I had won - I have been fourth and seventh in previous Nationals but to take this Embassy National title and set an all-time National record is, without doubt, one of the greatest moments of my career."
Richie Hull (Garboline MAP Starlets) took second place with 48.700kg, and Colin Mayor (Keenets North West) copped for third with 40.660kg.
TEAM
1. Dick Clegg's Team Ossett 553 pts
2. RAF Tec-neek Trabucco 517 pts
3. Browning Hotrods 507 pts
4. Daiwa Gordon League 500 pts
5. Keenets North West 486 pts
6. Liverpool & District 483 pts
7. Clevedon DAM Thyers 481 pts
8. A4 Oxford Match Group 479 pts
9. Stainforth & District 471 pts
10. Browning S****horpe 468 pts.
INDIVIDUAL
1. Dave Vincent (Bowlers AC) 56.010 kg
2. Richie Hull (Garbolino MAP Starlets) 48.700 kg
3. Colin Mayor (Keenets North West) 40.660 kg
4. Brett Copper (Hansford Match Group) 37.230 kg
5. Dave Harpin (A4 Oxford Match Group) 33.900 kg
6. Ken Goldsbury (Burton Mutual AA) 33.800 kg.
I fished it with Leicester and was in the next section up from Dave in a dire area and we all caught bob all ! If I remember Dave was late to his peg and set up the feeder while he sorted his other kit out !, tip went round and 56kg later National Champ
Fin,
Any decent matches coming up your way on the Ancholme (50 plus), I am struggling to find matches on non commercials.
Cheers mate CWH
Mouncey league starts on the 9th oct, think their limiting it to 40 ,all cake mills, 12 matches up till xmas .. Very clear and weedy at the moment , shud be tench n perch for the first few, then get a bit of rain and its roach all the way .Its crazy how 10 years ago we had 140 peggers all over the river then 120 , down to 80 and now the winter league is 60 pegs max, sign of the times.Think the mouncey do an open the week before it starts proper
Fin,
Any decent matches coming up your way on the Ancholme (50 plus), I am struggling to find matches on non commercials.
Cheers mate CWH
Mouncey league starts on the 9th oct, think their limiting it to 40 ,all cake mills, 12 matches up till xmas .. Very clear and weedy at the moment , shud be tench n perch for the first few, then get a bit of rain and its roach all the way .Its crazy how 10 years ago we had 140 peggers all over the river then 120 , down to 80 and now the winter league is 60 pegs max, sign of the times.Think the mouncey do an open the week before it starts proper
Are there any matches on Cadney Road nowdays--i fished a few Ancholme matches a few years back and won my section on Cadney road a few times --came 4th in match from there once--never did any good on cake mills.
We dont have any on cadney (no fish there), we go on springs with 30 peg in the w/l , thats the old river still but the other side of the bridge to cadney, it can be good when cake mills is tramming through but on a normal river the bigger roach are all on cake mills . Over the years we've seen big maggot rule , then blasting 2 pints of squatt and now its bread all the way , you usually need 10-14lb when its on ( ad 24lb of roach and skimmers last week of season) but every year the fish get tighter and tighter and they now use it to shift water from all over the place so it runs off a lot more
