| Odds to win | Comments | |
|---|---|---|
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Matty Barker |
3/1 | Experience will be vital here, has won better matches than this |
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Rick Barker |
7/2 | On a high from last year but dislikes the venue |
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Steve Dash |
5/1 | Poor match last year but is a top angler at this place |
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Bear Barker |
6/1 | Has to improve but he's got to be a threat |
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Jon Collins |
10/1 | Unseen for some time, needs to have learnt a lot |
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Gary Haley |
12/1 | No-one knows if he is any good so he's the underdog today |
PREVIEW
Double champion
Rick is out to keep his unbeaten run going but he has more challenges than ever this year.Steve Dash
is looking to put last years dismal display firmly behind him and has an outstanding chance with this being his favourite venue. Jason Hoare will not be here this year to try and go one better than last year.Bear Barker
has yet another go and he fancies his chances again. Don't write him off just yet, he likes it at Glenleigh.The return of
Jon Brummy Collins is interesting but it's going to take a real skilled effort to beat this lot. Dash doesn't rate him at all. Jon may just struggle on his first trip to the lake.Then we have 2 new comers.
Matty Barker enters with a great chance and is also sponsoring the match. His career is longer than a conger and he has plenty of experience advantages over the opposition. He hasn't fished a match with this lot before but you've got to say he will put up a good fight.Gary Haley
is a lot younger and has grown up around the Cornish waters. He doesn't show up as good as Matty on paper but he could spring a surprise. Gary has little experience with carp as well which could also lead to his downfall.
HOUR 1
Rick and Mathew decided to bag some minnows right from the off. They couldn't see each other from where they were situated.
Bear soon did the same after he had lost a carp in the lilies just 5 minutes into the match, but Gary seemed to stick to his own tactics as he never had a whip for speed fishing and it was he who landed the first carp.
Jon was blank after an hour and so was Dash.
HOUR 2
By the end of hour 2 Mathew and Rick had moved off the whips and were now after something more hefty. Rick caught an eel on sweet corn while Mathew got his first carp.
Dash was at this point already in deep trouble with no bites and no fish. Brummy was still in the same boat.
Bear was not finding it easy in a difficult peg with overhanging trees but he went into the lead with a good looking carp hitting the net.
HOUR 3
Gary was ticking along quite nicely with steady catches of rudd but lost a couple of good fish when playing them. Bear took his first carp and Matty yet another. Rick took a 13oz mirror carp.
HOUR 4
Disaster for Rick as a hooked fish took him under the lilies and snapped his elastic meaning he had to change back to the whip for small stuff.
Gary nearly lost his rod when a fish pulled it into the water when his back was turned but he just grabbed it in time. He caught a nice carp well over a pound and a half. Bear struggled to get fish in through the lilies in his peg while Brummy was still heading for a water licking.
HOUR 5
It was looking like Gary needed something very good to keep up with the others now. Rick was catching rudd at the rate of about 3 or 4 a minute. This match was going to be close.
HOUR 6
Brummy moved pegs for the last 45 minutes as he had drawn a blank. Rick continued minnow bashing right up to the line and surely must go close to winning again. What a great match !
This was another great match with 4 anglers scrapping it out right up until the end. Matty did well on his FM debut, Rick put up another good showing, Bear to, Gary did well and will get better. Where Steve Dash goes from here is another story, he's got to sort his tactics out big style, I'd say Brummy as well.
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