Charities Championship 2007 
Birch House Lakes July 14th

Winner In action peg 18

Birch House Lakes played host to the 5th Charity match for the Disabled Angler.co.uk Charities Championship.

 The nightmare of finding waters I've never visited before is a thing of the past thanks to the TOM TOM and because of TOM, I was in plenty of time for a tasty bacon roll from the on site cafe.  If you ever visit Birch House you'll be greeted with a friendly smile and some cheeky banter.  You'll even get a cuppa brought to your peg, and more cheek :)

As usual the Boss (Bucko) was already there with his good wife Linda, he had his table set up and taking the money from the competitors.  Roger was collecting the £1 for the guess the weight,  funny how much we over guestimate the winners weight.  I was only 40Ibs out :)

Tommy however was a lot closer.

Draw time 09:30 saw me draw peg19.  After the usual Banter of wishing everyone good luck! No! really :) I set off to my Peg. On arrival my plan was to fish up in the water at 13mtrs for anything that swam, it looked good as it was just close to some lily pads, ideal I thought. As we had been informed there was some rather large Bream along my stretch so I opted for a shorter line, where I put 5 large balls of ground bait full of goodies; this line I would leave for a while to let the large Bream get their heads down and  into a feeding frenzy. Well that was the plan and as it happened I never had a bite from the shorter line all day and for all my efforts only manage 4Ibs 12ozs from the 13mtr line mostly made up of chub.  D. Ribbons on Peg18 was the guy putting in all the action, don't you just love it when the winner comes of the next peg.

Winner D. Ribbons 19Ibs 12ozs

Section Winners

Thank-you

Thank-you to the fishery for accommodating us all so very well and also to all the competitors that took part.  After listening to comments it would seem that the prestige gained by qualifying off one of the charity matches is growing and everyone definitely wants to be the: 
2007 Charities Champion

To our sponsor BR-Electrical.co.uk thank-you again for enabling us to stage these Charity events, thanks Steve.

Next stop Holmes Farm 21st July 2007

Match Results and Days Accounts

Results Birch House Lakes Brailsford Derby

1/ D Ribbons lb19.12 Q
2/ G Archer lb18.00 Q
3/ J Holmes lb12.02 (PQ Riddings)
4/ R Bierton lb10.00 (PQ Riddings)
5/ A Willett lb9.00 Q
5/ B Jaques lb9.00 Q
7/ R Parker lb7.04 Q
8/ D Bennett lb7.00
9/ P Shrigley lb6.01
10/ G Ribbons lb5.04 (PQ Riddings)
11/ A Archer lb5.00
12/ D Lager lb4.12
12/ D Williams lb4.12
13/ A Lager lb4.10
14/ J Rex lb4.06
15/ S Parker lb4.00
16/ D Minto lb3.08
17/ J Buxton lb2.14
18/ R Embery lb2.04
19/ Miss J Ashall lb2.02
20/ E Gackowski lb2.00
21/ K Proctor lb1.04
22/ S Midwood lb0.10
23/ G Taylor lb0.09
24/ J Blears D.N.W.
25/ T Crossley D.N.W.
26/ M Ribbons D.N.W.