White Acres Dynamite Baits Spring Festival 2002

IN one of the tightest festivals for years Paul Yates lifted the trophy winners cheque for £ 2000 and a case of groundbait in the White Acres Dynamite Baits Spring Festival.

White Acres Dynamite Baits festival runner up Steve Burgess nets a skimmer on his way to a final day section win at Porth peg 38

Leicester based Essex County Van Den Eynde star Paul had been in superb form all week recording five section wins but so to had Team BAS angler Steve Burgess and it took a weight count to decide their fate.Paul had 293-14-0 a clear 24-13-0 ahead of Steve’s 269-1-0 five day total to leave the Bolton rod in second with a cheque for £ 900.

The week began well for Paul with a lake victory worth £ 270 from Pollawyn pools peg 34 after he made an early switch to wagglered corn catching 40 carp off the bottom towards the island totalling 108-2-0.Trelawney 26 saw chopped worm feeder his route to a second section win and lake second with 56-5-0 adding £ 170 to the Yates cause.

A dozen lumpy carp for 65-6-0 at Gwinear’s peg 39 on cat meat brought another £ 25 section win then Thursday’s trip to Porth reservoir ended with the fourth maximum score when he netted 63 skimmers at lawns peg 23 for 16-3-0 and another £ 25.

The final day saw Paul tackle Bolingey peg 7 with a long pole shallow caster assault for the bulk of his 14 carp haul some coming at shorter range on cat meat, the £ 25 section win taking his daily pools earnings to over £ 500. Steve Burgess a festival regular for seven years demonstrated that you don’t have to be a household name to make the frame.

Richie Hull on his way to a section win with 15-9-0 at Porth reservoir on the final day. Richie went on to finish in 9th place

Day three at Trelawney on peg 32 and Steve was the lake winner coining in another £ 250 with 90-13-0 of carp.His fourth section win came at Gwinear’s peg 39 on Thursday when his 5 metre cat meat swim burst into action in the closing stages to finish with 79-14-0 and another £ 25.

At Porth Steve held his nerve to edge out Lee Harrison in a peg to peg battle for the section points his 23-12-0 just ounces ahead of Harrison! ‘I was confident of a good result at Porth but once I knew where Yani had drawn at Bolingey I expected him to win his section again,’ said Steve who received a cheque for £ 900 and like all of the top 40 anglers a case of Dynamite baits products.

‘I’ve had a great week though, I’ve only drawn one flier but the rest have been reasonable pegs in average sections,’ he added.

For Tricast backed Kieron Rich who has been second, third and fourth in festivals several times that win is proving elusive, and he can thank a difficult day in the first arm at Bolingey on the Thursday when he was third in section for costing him the festival.

Paul Yates White Acres Dynamite Baits Festival winner 2002 with his last day section winning 47-14-0 bag at Bolingey peg 7

COOL KIERON SNATCHES RECORD

MATCH RECORDS tumbled at White Acres first on Trelawney where Daiwa ace Tommy Pickering waltzed to 141-10-0 at peg 32 on day one and then Kieron Rich set the fishery match record on the final day with 213-9-0 to edge out the old record by 2 lb 4 oz!

Bagger Kieron a regular framer in the festivals made no mistakes after starting with a feeder at peg 20 but soon switching to a waggler cast 16 metres out into 5 feet of water.Feeding cubed Tulip luncheon meat and presenting a cube on a size 16 Preston Innovations PR29 tied to a 0.12 mm diameter trace hook Kieron soon had carp averaging 3 lb queuing up and slipped into full speed bagging mode netting around 70 lb in the first 90-minutes.Upping the hook size to a 14 and dispensing with the trace Kieron beat most of the the fish on 2.5 lb breaking strain Maxima reel line. Keenets Northwest grouped Kieron slipped into top gear and put bend after bend in his Tricast John Allerton 0-4 gram waggler rod and built up to a crescendo where in the last hour along he hauled in no less than 22 carp finishing with around 90 fish.

‘I only fed about half a tin of meat in total,’ said Kieron who caught at half depth.This is the third 200 lb-plus haul of full time angler Kieron’s career his best 252 lb at Drayton reservoir, and the other a 206 lb Gwinear bag.

BOOKIE’S BLUNDER?

Kieron Rich with one of the carp from his White Acres match record bag of 213-8-0

‘On the Monday night I bumped into him and he explained he’d looked for me before the first match and couldn’t find me, so I offered to take his bet even though I knew he’d already won the match lake,’ added Bill who paid him out £ 220 from a £ 10 each way bet.Mind you Bill save money on runner-up Steve Burgess: ‘Steve had a 20p win bet with me. on the Friday after his fifth win at Porth i said to him ‘I suppose you wish you had that 20p each way now”!

Third placed Kieron rich and fourth man Tommy Pickering each picked up £ 100-plus winnings from place bets.

TOP 10 WHITE ACRES DYNAMITE BAITS FESTIVAL

1st Paul Yates (Essex County Van den Eynde) 36 points, dropping 9, 293-14-0 £ 2000; 2nd Steve Burgess (Team BAS) 36 points, dropping 9, 269-1-0, £ 900; 3rd Kieron Rich (Tricast) 36 points, dropping 7 £ 800; 4th Tom Pickering (Daiwa) 35, £ 700; 5th Richard O’Connor (Keenets Northwest) 34, dropping 7 £ 600; 6th Steve Ringer (Van den Eynde) 34, dropping 6 £ 500;7th Tony Wynnick (A1 Angling) 33, dropping 7, 245-5-0 £ 400;8th Tim Rowe (Team Keenets Milo) 33, dropping 7,187-5-0 £ 300; 9th Richie Hull (Tek Neek Trabucco) 33, dropping 6 £ 200; 10th Simon Richardson (VDE) 33, dropping 4 £ 100.

White Acres Dynaite Baits Spring Festival 2002 top three. L-R Steve Burgess – 3rd, Paul Yates 1st, Kieron Rich 3rd

TUESDAY – Pollawyn Paul Cannon (Tommy’s Tackle) 93-1-0 peg 27; Python and Trelawney Wayne Mellings (Fosters Tipton) 69-11-0 T18; Gwinear Paul Keeley (Keenets Northwest) 175-7-0 peg 20; Porth Gary Powell (Keenets NW) 19-4-0 peg 75; Bolingey Steve Cook (Ringer Baits) 75-5-0 peg 23.

WEDNESDAY – Pollawyn Richard O’Connor (Keenets Northwest) 87-15-0 peg 25; Python and Trelawney Steve Burgess (Team BAS) 90-13-0 T32; Gwinear Dave Lewis (Team Sillybait) 101-4-0 ; Porth Kieron Rich (Tricast) 23-6-0 peg 71; Bolingey Gary Plant (talkangling .co.uk) 82-1-0 peg 23.

THURSDAY – Pollawyn Pete Wedgebrow (Slapheads) 93-7-0 peg 55; Python and Trelawney Gary Webber (Mosella SW) 71-4-0 T8; Gwinear Simon Richardson (VDE) 122-4-0 peg 25; Porth Stu Killen (Maver Barnsley Blacks) 41-3-0 peg 72; Bolingey Rob gandley (MAP Garbolino Starlets) 74-12-0 peg 22 .

FRIDAY – Pollawyn Kieron Rich (Tricast) 213-9-0 peg 20; Python and Trelawney Simon Kiefer (Daiwa Dorking) 81-9-0 peg 26; Gwinear Anthony Rogers (Ian’s Tackle) 153-7-0 peg 28; Porth Nigel Smith (SW) 30-0-0 peg 71; Bolingey Lee Woodhouse (Carbotec Select) 124-1-0, peg 36.

FIFTY MORE FOR SKOL

ANOTHER fifty anglers made it through to the Skol Masters festival in October and with fifty more from the Milo keenets festival there will still be ample opportunity to qualify from one of the weekly residents matches between now and October.

List of Skol masters Qualifiers from the Dynamite Bait’s festival:NB: * denotes already seeded to the 2002 Skol masters Festival week from previous final appearance or qualification from the Sensas festival 2002. *Paul Yates, Steve Burgess, *Kieron Rich, *Tom Pickering, Richard O’Connor, Steve Ringer, Tony Wynnick, Tim Rowe, * Richie Hull, Simon Richardson, *Pete Wedgebrow, Gary Webber, Dave Pimlott, Roger Hampson, *Kevin Arathoon, *Paul Cannon, Vince Gandley, *Simon Gould, John Chapman, Dave Rudman, Mike Jones, Rob Gandley, Steve Cooke, *Martin Green, Lee Woodhouse, Kian Wardle, Matthew McDermott, Lee Harrison, Dave Chandler, Mark Murdoch, Anthony Rogers, *Craig Evans, Chas Ward, Neil McKinnon, Dave Bruton, DJ Johnson, Dean Barlow, John Battersby, John Lowe, Mal Runacres, Paul Keeley, Ian Lockley, Calvin Lawson, Alan Mowatt, Paul Barnard, Gary Plant, Richard Lawson, Geoff Ringer, Graham Ford, *Harry Billing, Martyn Newstead, Wayne Mellings, Mark Glynn, Alan Barker, *Stu Killen, Robin Flowers, *Adam Rooney, Gary Skerritt, Nigel Plumbe, Nigel Smith (Cheshire), Mark Harper, John Kent, *Gary Powell, John Cockayne.