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Once again Lindholme Lakes and it's (
Bonsai Lake) staged the inaugural
event in: disabled-angler.co.uk Charity fund raising events
calendar for 2007.
This match
was not only to
raise funds for our chosen charities Rainbows Children's Hospice
& Macmillan Nurses but also to commemorate the
memory of a sadly missed disabled-angler Steven Platts. Steven's family
once again very kindly presented the memorial trophy to the winner.
Winner Tony
Prentice
Winner
Tony Prentice pictured above is about to have his second weigh of
his winning catch of 54Ibs 5ozs.
Tony received some spot on advice earlier in the
week from none
other than World-Champion Alan Scothorn. Alan showed him how to feed caster and fish maggot, a winning combination
as it turned out but
still needed a talented angler to carry it off and Tony showed the
rest of the field that he was just that man.
Section
Winners
My Banter
On my arrival at the fishery I fueled up
at the fisheries on-site cafeteria with a well earned bacon butty
& a brew after the long drive form the midlands. How I
managed to get there two hours before the draw I don't know,
keen
I guess :)
After a quick look at the water to confirm it was still wet I went
back to the car park where others had started to arrive, Andy was
first on the scene as usual with a vehicle that looked more like a
shop, being full of Easter raffle prices. Thank-you to everyone
for their generous donations.
On the dangler charity matches we're not
normally graced with good looking anglers and this was no
exception :) but this has got to be a first, this funny looking
chap tried to sell us a copy of Windows :)
He caught 30Ibs "well done
Dave"
Unfortunately my result was, well that's
enough about that story :) no complaints though, this was April and we
were all sitting in T/shirts and it had been a long Winter so
just being back by the water was a real treat, and of course
there's always next time and that's at Alders farm this weekend on
Matt's Charity Event.
I would just like
to finish by saying a huge thank-you to Andrew Archer. There
aren't many guys in the country with the organisational skills of this man, combine that with a generous heart and you just know the
charities are going to do well out of any event he stages, and he
stages quite a few throughout the year.
And finally to everyone who took part at Lindholme and helped to
make this match once again such a huge success Thank-you.
To our sponsor
BR-Electrical.co.uk thank-you again for enabling us to stage these
Charity events thanks Steve.
Next stop Monk
Lakes28th April 2006
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