LATEST ADDITIONS

See who is through to the Evesham Festival in the latest round of qualifiers. . . Abu Garcia/Wychavon Qualifier69 FishedWith a little rainwater putting a tinge of colour in the water, this proved to be the best qualifier of the season so far, with a whopping 8-13-8 needed to make the frame!Coming out on top with a weight of 13-0-0 was Oxford rod Robin Cave, who plundered the rivers roach population from unfancied peg 49.

In the latest £1000 qualifier sub fishe’s Dan Watson took the honours with a fine bag of stocky carp from peg 22 on Kestrel Lake, Dan fished pellet at 13m in the open water to catch steadily all day. Sunday £1000 Qualifier Match Kestrel Lake • 1st Dan Watson, Sub Fish, 98lb 08oz • 2nd Dan Semper, Anglers Corner, 73lb 08oz • 3rd Pete Andrews, Westwood Lakes 71lb 02oz Tuesdays £1000 qualifier was won by Dynamite and Middy backed Tony Evans. Tony Evans drew peg 8 and fished soft 4mm pellet over 2mm micro pellets to record 74lb 08oz of small carp barble ide Skimmers and Tench. 
 
Tuesday’s £1000 Qualifier Match Skylark Lake • 1st Tony Evans, Middy/Dynamite Baits • 2nd Steve Lane, Castle A/C, 70lb 08oz • 3rd Toby Pepper, Hunstanton Tackle, 64lb 14oz Thursday’s Over 50’s Skylark Lake 22 pegs • 1st Gus Jarret, Anglers Corner, 61lb 08oz • 2nd John Gooden, 66lb 08oz • 3rd Ken Clark, Westwood Lakes, 58lb 12oz • 4th Smudge Smith, Bag em, 57lb 10oz Friday’s Open Evening Kestrel Lake 13 pegs • 1st Luke Morley, Miracle Baits, 86lb 08oz • 2nd Steve Lane, Castle A/C 60lb 06oz • 3rd Ron Roberts, Westwood Lakes, 30lb 14oz.

When anglers of the calibre of Darren Cox and Steve Cooke work together to design a rod range you can probably expect something pretty good. Dave Harrell takes a look at their work… Match rod actions are something that have interested me for many years and having been involved in rod designs and developments myself in a previous career I like to think I know a bit when it comes to passing judgement on them. This new range of four feeder rods has been developed by Darren Cox and Steve Cooke, two incredibly successful feeder anglers in their own rights with a long list of match wins behind them on various waters around the UK, so as you can probably imagine I was looking forward to having a look at the finished products when they arrived at the Match Fishing office. My first reaction when I took all four rods out of the bags and set them up was one of surprise, as I’d expected to waggle another set of soft, parabolic through-action rods, which seems to be the current trend with virtually every rod producer.

Sensas is making big inroads into the commercial-fishery bait market and its brand-new range of soft pellets caught the eye of Joe Carass at a recent trade show – he just had to take a closer look. A nglers who fish commercial venues are spoilt for choice! Not only have they got hundreds of venues around the country to fish, they also have hundreds of baits with which to target the fish! There are many brands on the bait market these days and it’s often difficult to gain an edge over other competitors. Sensas has looked at this problem, and it would have been very easy for the company to re-badge some bulk-bought pellets and sell them on. It didn’t want to do this, however, and set out to design a range of soft pellets that would appeal to every angler who visits commercial venues… and that’s where the new commercial-fishery range of soft hooker pellets comes in.