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Saturday
May 21st saw
disabled-angler.co.uk unveil their new charity series: The Three
Shires and this the first in this new series of charity fund
raising events was held at Leicestershire’s Holly Farm fishery.
On the notorious Trotters Lake.
The
day started with glorious sunshine after a very cold night. But
before the 9am draw was finished black clouds loomed overhead and rain
and cold winds dominated the days proceedings, which made the
fishing very difficult indeed.
Anglers
had come from, as far a field as Yorkshire and the winner on the
day was Yorkshire Tykes very own Andrew Archer. Andrew put in a
credible performance on pole and meat tactics to clinch the win
with 21Ibs of carp and tench.
Andrew a disabled angler proved once again that
he is a very capable adversary by beating some high-class open
experts present on the day.
One
of those experts was 2nd placed Holly Farm fishery regular Steve
Degg, Steve fished the method feeder tight to the island using red
maggot to tempt several reluctant carp for 19Ibs 8ozs.
There
was another regular from the same family fishing 9 year-old Ryan a
definite star for the future.
He told me he will fish for England one day and I have to
agree with him, after watching this young man fish a power pole at
11mtrs.
3rd
spot went to Alan Goodson fishing peg 1 he chopped and changed
between pole and feeder to amass a weight of 19Ibs 2ozs.
The
day was a great success and felt more like a club match than an
open event with friendly banter being the order of the day.
Maybe the ethos reflected the reason why we had all
gathered and that was to raise funds for terminally ill children.
The
day started for many with one of Rita’s hearty breakfasts and
ended with refreshments in Holly Farm’s new clubhouse. Featured
in disabled-anglers
accessible fisheries page.
The
day was officiated by disabled-anglers very own charity events
coordinator John Buxton (Bucko) Chairman Neil Ross (Bliss)
Secretary Dirk Williams. We
would like to thank Linda Buxton for all her hard work-Tony Hurst
for doing such a splendid job weighing-in and Del the fishery
owner for the use of his facilities and his generous contribution
towards the charity fund. And of course to all the anglers, for
supporting this new venture. Helping to make the day such a great
success, thank-you.
Above
you can see John & Linda officiating the draw.
For the full list of the match results and the
days accounts click here
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