46 fished.
It was with a smile of happiness that i paid out the second day's individual winner, Simon Preece was like a son and a best mate to Fred, in fact when the big fellow passed away it seemed only right that he should leave some of his fishing tackle to Simon.
When Simon broke his pole a while ago some of the sections of Fred's pole, which was made on the same mandrel, was used in place of the broken sections and Simon certainly used them to good effect on peg 58 opposite the grass bank to win the second day with 200 roach and a big perch to total 8-0-0.
individuals on day
1st Simon Preece (WB Clarke VDE) 8-0-0
2nd Mick Hatchard (Shakespeare) 7-3-0
3rd Matt Forster (Sensas NW) 7-2-0
4th Mark Taylor (Fox Match Tipton) 6-10-7
5th Scott Geens (Starlets) 6-6-14
6th Ade Shepherd (WB Clarke VDE) 6-1-4
With all the section winners from the previous day falling away it was left to Shakespeare star Rob Quinn to strike with 5-6-0 of small roach and a section win to add to his section 2nd to total 3 pts and become the 3rd name on the trophy.
This left emerging Fox Match Tipton star Mark Taylor to settle for second on 4pts.
overall
1st Rob Quinn (Shakespeare) 3 pts
2nd Mark Taylor (Tipton) 4pts
3rd Ade Shepherd (WB Clarke VDE) 5pts (total weight 25-10-10)
4th Matt Forster (Sensas NW) 5 pts (18-4-14)
5th Neil Martin (Drennan NW) 5pts (15-12-1)
6th Darren Massey (Shakespeare) 5 pts (15-1-8)
Rob holding back the tears with the coveted trophy.
