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Downes Snatches Team Champs For Starlets
A brilliant Match Fishing Team Championships saw Midlands based Kamasan Starlets snatch the title from reigning champions Daiwa Dorking, and a new festival record to boot.
Fittingly it was skipper Mark Downes who sealed the win for Starlets. The Birmingham based angler was in the last section to weigh in with the result still in the balance. His 8-7-8, the third highest weight of the 70-peg event, was too good for Dorking’s Simon Willsmore, who took 6-9-0 to the scales off the end peg, sealing the victory by just two points with Barnsley Blacks in third.
Anglers fishing the river were probably one of few to welcome the bank holiday rain as it switched the river’s big fish onto the feed.
And after a big bream weight to Alan Scotthorne the previous day, Daiwa Gordon League’s Martyn Howard set another new festival record.
After drawing peg 27 Martyn went all out for barbel fishing open ended feeder with crushed pellets and an 11mm hair rigged pellet on the hook. He had to wait two hours for his first bite, but it provided the first of four big barbel for a 39-12-0 total.
It was a highly satisfying win for a Starlets team including the likes of Sean Ashby, Simon Fry and Darren Cox, and Mark Downes told Match Fishing magazine: “I was delighted with our draw this morning- though I knew that Dorking and Barnsley had good draws as well, and that we would have to get things right on the day if we wanted to take victory.
“While many anglers sat for the big fish that so often figure in the frame weights at Evesham, we got our heads down with bloodworm and joker – trying to eek as much as we could from the river to gain valuable section points.
“After an initial bombardment of groundbait and soil, we started off targeting roach, and many including myself had a good first hour.
“As is often the case at Evesham, things got tougher as the day wore on, and it was only by swapping between rigs, and targeting other species such as perch that we were able to edge in front of rival teams. After several near misses in recent years, it is great to finally get our hands on the winners’ trophy! ”

For full results, check out October’s issue of Match Fishing Magazine.
2012 Match Fishing Team Championships Result, Warks Avon, Evesham
Teams: Kamasan Starlets 59pts; Daiwa Dorking 57pts; Ultimate Barnsley Blacks 52pts
Individuals: Martyn Howard (Daiwa Gordon League) 39-12-0, peg 27; Tony Skinner (Shakespeare Superteam) 10-4-0, peg 14; Mark Downes (Kamasan Starlets) 8-7-8, peg 7.

Bream Win The 2012 Wychavon For Scotthorne

The really big names continue to dominate at the 2012 Evesham Festival with Alan Scotthorne bagging his second Wychavon Championships after the Warwickshire Avon took on colour overnight following heavy rain.
That switched the bream onto the feed and there are few, if any, better than the five times World Champion at catching them on the pole.
Alan drew peg 45 where he fed at 11 metres with 15 balls of Sensas River and Terre De laced with joker.
Fishing bunches of bloodworm overdepth, Alan had the first of six bream early, also adding a good number of skimmers, roach and hybrids for his winning 23-7-0 haul.
“I am delighted to have got my hands back on the Wychavon trophy, especially as I have been having a bit of a bad run over the last few months,” Alan told Match Fishing magazine.
“I’ve been fishing the Warwickshire Avon here at Evesham since the early 1980s, and have always found it a really challenging, but rewarding venue. The bream that dominate certain matches now never used to figure when I first started coming - it used to be a dace and chub river!”
The river fished well, with 13lb needed to get into the top five, but it was another river legend in Wayne Swinscoe who picked up the cheque for second place with 1 19-6-0 weight from peg 2. Wayne fished in a similar manner to Alan.
Rob South in third put his faith in pellet feeder and picked up three barbel, which would normally win any match at Evesham, for 17-3-0 from peg 31.

we crashed and burned after all the walking and the practice it wasn't to be :-[the draw wasn't the best and after the Sundays match it fished rock hard in places  me personally  last in my section  i couldn't believe it drew a peg where bream had come off it the day before so it changed my plan a little


i did have a crowd behind me at the start after taking time out to show them the G/B why we use soil in fact it nearly caught me out spending all that time with them
tackle all shorted and i was ready for the off






hope diddy likes this time taken out and organised
at the all in 10 balls with 100ml of joker in and then 3 balls of soil rich with joker at this point everything looked good and managed to get 10 balls in the right area with 15 on-lookers watching my every move with in seconds bites bites bites  :-/i'd started off with a 16s thinking there might be the odd bream still willing to feed so 3 bloodworm to start with never hit anything for a start  :-/so the next rig with a 22s on  i hit 1 in 10 and it was the smallest roach you could physically get a hook into with a very odd better one of inch long this was my first 45minutes thinking the better one's would come  they never did tim nash above me had had a lonely chub and bits  and below was lee wright lee could catch a little bigger fish but not a lot bigger  some pegs were throwing up roach where other couldn't catch a real horror of a day time then caught a big billy on the flaty so i thought it was time to change  i needed 4grams to get it to settle right still nothing we had had a disaster the whole team struggled a real nightmare of a day
but i still wouldn't of missed it for the world its the best match of the year just hope we get a invite next year  it great catching up with everyone old and new  tightlines i'l just have to bounce back
at least little dumper truck had a nice day

sunday wil was 75 at the bottom end believe it or not that day wil was the only angler in the bottom section not to catch a bream


but this was a nice eel

Unlucky Joff. Your kit is well clean and tidy oh and Green

win or lose its great to fish against the best and the crowds were good banter
even Dave hall stood behind me and said "joff don't worry your teams not in contention at this point of time "

Who won the Saturday match?

Who won the Saturday match?

Dave Harrell

Cheers for that Lloydy

The best Evesham Festival for years.
There were so many fish caught this bank holiday weekend it was unbelievable.
I've never seen so many barbel caught in all the years I've been fishing at Evesham.
Well done to all the winners and all the anglers taking part

Well done Dazzla, top team performance

well done joff ur kit looks much tidier.

thanks diddy didn't help my fishing