Zac Brown wins Maver Match This Final. Zac Brown has become the third Maver Match This Champion, banking the £50,000 winner's cheque following a close match at Larford on Saturday. The Preston Innovations Delcac team man weighed in with 52. 460kg to clinch victory from former champ Andy Powers by just 960g.
The date for the Frank Barlow & Steve Toone Memorial Match has been announced.
The popular event that remembers two angling greats is on the River Trent at Long Higgin on Saturday, September 21st. The draw is at the Stratford Heaven pub at 9am, with fishing from 12pm to 5pm. Tickets are just £25 a head.
Andy Power has just added the prestigious UK Championship to his already bulging trophy cabinet!After a tense fourth and final round at an out-of-sorts Barston Lakes, all Andy needed was a fourth in section to take the coveted trophy. That was narrowly enough for the Preston Innovations hot prospect to pip Garbolino-backed Richie Hull, thanks to his superior weight advantage of a whopping 241. 423kg over four heats!Richie managed a section third on the final day and was left cursing his luck as just another two ounces would have seen him finish a point higher and the 2013 champion. Alas, it wasn't to be and he had to settle for an almost as impressive runners-up spot, ahead of a string of top names.
This 10ft two-piece rod is a wonderful commercial-fishery tool at a great price.
The rod screams quality and the minimalist graphics and classy fixtures and fittings are pleasing to the eye. As far as performance goes this is up there with the best. It has a beautiful through action that will not only be great for carp but will also be suited to bream and skimmer work at short range.
I have no problem telling you that I was initially sceptical about Old Ghost. It was a range of products that I saw last October at the Tackle & Guns Trade Show. But, up until the end of June this year, I’d not seen any of it in the flesh!The fact that you couldn’t get hold of the product after such hype, and the uncertainty over how yet more ‘foreign’ baits would be received, were the sources of my scepticism. I didn’t even think it would make it to UK soil, but it’s here!As with any new firm there is, no doubt, a battle lying ahead of the China-based bait giant if it’s to make an impact.
The original pellet feeders are among the best fish catchers around and now these micro versions look to continue that.
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Scores of top anglers are set to do battle for the prestigious Maver Mega Match This weekend extravaganza!
The 2013 Mega 'Match This' Final takes place on the Match Lake at Maver Larford Lakes this Saturday, 31st August and will be shown on Sky TV in the autumn. Competing are some of the top names in the UK, including Fish O Mania champ Jamie Hughes, former Match This champ Andy Power, England International Tommy Pickering, Maver's own Andy Kinder and Match Fishing and Pole Fishing's very own Tom Scholey!
The Maver Mega 'Match This' event is the richest angling competition in the history of the sport offering one lucky angler the opportunity to lift the converted 'Match This' trophy standing over half a metre tall and receive the minimum £50,000 first place prize. This year's final will once again see 24 of angling's best from up and down the country compete for the sport's richest ever prize. There will also be an equally prestigious team championship event taking place on Sunday 1st September, which will see National representation from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland as well as International representation for the very first time from team Poland.