Our editorial assistant, Jake Fowles, takes Middy’s new Xtreme M3 out to test it. Can it really handle a No30 elastic?
When I arrived in the DHP offices to find the Middy Xtreme M3 pole sat on my desk I wasn’t too sure what expect. A pole rated to a No30 elastic (I wasn’t aware elastics went that strong), dubbed the ‘Animal Tamer’. I almost certainly expected a near-unusable piece of kit.
Angler's Name
Weight (lbs/oz)
Peg # / Lake
Adam Richards (Browning)
198-13-00
26 (Meadow)
Frankie Gianoncelli (Preston Innovations / Sonu Baits)
151-07-00
16 (Meadow)
Matthew Dawes (Drennan North West)
150-02-00
21 (Meadow)
Paul Blinkhorn
130-09-00
7 (Meadow)
Dan Hull (Dynamite Baits)
130-08-00
23 (Bridge)
James Howarth (Tri-cast Highfield)
122-14-00
10 (Meadow)
Connor Barlow
119-01-00
42 (Meadow)
Jordan Holloway
114-00-00
1 (Meadow)
Ninety eight (98) anglers attended the second and final Mega Match This qualifier event at Heronbrook Fisheries of the 2016 campaign. Conditions on the day were ideal with temperatures remaining mild coupled with plenty of cloud cover. Fishing on the day was, as per usual, of a high standard with very little separating second place through to eighth place. It was Meadow that produced the majority of the top weights on the day with the winner, Adam Richards, leaving the rest of the field trailing in his wake.
