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Bag'em Matchbaits Silver League for Individuals Round 5 30 pegs – Sunday 11th March 20121st Kevin Folwell (Spring Street) Peg14 20lb 3¼oz Orfe Perch2nd Lee Taylor (Bagem Matchbaits) Peg32 12lb 11¾oz Bream/skimmers3rd Mick Turner (Daventry AC) Peg17 10lb 4oz Roach/skimmersSections:A1 Jake King (Daventry AC) Peg4 7lb 11½oz SkimmersA2 Tom Clish (Rugby Tackle) Peg13 7lb 7¼oz Skimmers/PerchB1 Carl Hulley (Daventry AC) Peg28 7lb 13¼oz Orfe/SkimmersB2 G Cheney (Daventry AC) Peg20 5lb 14½oz PerchBest Perch: Pete Palmer Peg36 2lb 6¼oz. This week most of the anglers that had turned out for round 5 of the Bagem Matchbaits Individual league at Dog Lane Napton found themselves over dressed for the occasion as the bright sunny weather and higher temperatures meant that one could sit out in shirt sleeve order. The warm conditions gave everyone the expectation that the roach would be on the move, however, it was the skimmers that showed the most this time. The winner this week came from peg 14 where Kevin Folwell (Spring Street) found that the big Orfe were still in residence and a selection of Perch to 2lb were too.

Open competition match results Tuesdays £1000 qualifier match on skylark saw 23 fishing. Out on top to make it two in two matches was Adam Wakelin the Preston backed rod used his favourite worm and caster tactics to take bream ,barble and F1 s from peg 9 for 70lb 10oz. runner up was Pete Lambdin who fished similar tactics to Adam to take bream ,tench and ide for 60lb 8oz Tuesday skylark Lake 23 pegs 1st Adam Wakelin preston /sonubaits 70lb 10oz2nd Pete Lambdin Westwood Lakes 60lb 8oz3rd Dean Smith Lincoln Whisby 51lb 8oz4th Gary Shinn Liams Elite 38lb 8oz Another good turn out on the Thursday over 50 s open and Mansfield backed Fred Bisham took the spot with 52lb 8oz mixed bag just ahead of Garbolino Lincs Counties Spike Millagan who fell just short with 47lb 12oz Westwood Lakes over 50 s 34 pegs skylark 1st Fred Bishop peg 1 angling 52lb 8oz2nd Spike Milligan Garbolino Lincs County 47lb 12oz3rd Ken Clarke Westwood Lakes 44lb 4oz4th Barry Hawkins Ropsley AC 42lb8oz5th Robbo Lincs Vets 41lb 4oz Sundays teams of 3 matches Sunday saw the first round of the teams of 3 and it was close out in front was venue expert Steve Winters with 66lb 10oz of tench ,bream,carp and F1 s on pellet from peg 26 skylark . Sheffield based IAN Elliot fished worm and caster down the track to tempt tench ,bream and carp third spot wet to 4x world champion Bob Nudd off fancied peg 28 on skylarkTeam wise Westwood Lakes all stars and Middy tied at the top with 8 and Maver Bait – Tech Black with 15 and joint 4th was stampys 3 and Norfolk boys on 16.

Results of fishery open competitions Sunday 25th March 2012 league/openConditions:- Fog then sunny, ambient temp 15, humidity 93%, wind calm then SSW3 mph, moon phase waxing crescent, DO 13, Water temp 9. 4 deg, PH 7. 99, mv 631st Dave Jackson 49lb 03oz peg 16aa2nd D Cain 49lb peg 293rd Dave Pearson 44lb 9oz peg 3 Section 1 Ricky Bennett 37lb 15oz peg 38Section 2 Lewis Mc Intosh 26lb 08oz peg 16 Section 3 Eddie Collins 29lb 10oz peg 6Section 4 Glen Metcalf 26lb 5oz peg 23 Sat 24th March 2012 Roff Lookout Conditions, heavy fog, then sunny, ambient temp 14 deg, wind SE8, barometer 1028. 9 mb, moon phase waxing crescent, water temp 9.

This month, Joe Carass runs the rule over a rod range set to take the market by storm!During my time at Match Fishing I have been privy to most of the new gear available and have certainly looked at my fair share of rods this year alone. This range from MAP, however, has caught my eye and I have seen them going through the testing stages for over a year now, having watched MAP-sponsored anglers Andy May and James Dent putting the various prototypes through their paces on magazine features. Having seen the rods in the different stages of development I couldn’t wait to give the finished articles a bash, but more of that later. Parabolix is a name that has long been associated with quality so there was definitely some pressure on MAP to produce the goods with these and it looks to have succeeded! There are nine rods in the range, varying from an 8ft F1 bomb rod to 13ft waggler rods, so there really is a rod to suit everyone here.