Peterstone Weekend

Well as most of you know we held the 1st challenge match this weekend and despite the 7 hr journey that should have taken just under 3 hrs it was a cracking weekend.

Firstly I would like to thank Martin Cronin for allowing us to use one of his lakes for the 2 days and for looking after us all…

Below…Jamie and Ryan watching the sun go down

Saturday was sunny with the odd passing cloud but the wind did get up a bit but despite that everybody fished hard and caught fish…the weights were low but I think everybody had fun and found the lake a challenge.
The results for Saturday were…
1st. Jamie with 22lb – 6zo
2nd. Micheal with 20lb – 11oz
3rd. Paul with 16lb – 1oz.

Below is Martin presenting Jamie with his winnings which on the day came to £60 and Martin handed over an extra £30 from Himself.

Sunday saw a rather misty start to the day and luck was with us as it stayed dry for the most part.

3 locals joined us on the Sunday…Merv who is a very special chap as you will see by the end of this report….Mat who runs the Welsh carp forum and Andrew a local Disabled angler who enjoyed himself and we hope to see him at the festival next year.

Once again it was angler versus the fish and the winning weights were as follows.

1st Merv with 27lb – 10oz
2nd. Kevin with 23lb – 2oz
3rd. Jamie with 20lb – 10oz.

Now at the presentation Merv was given his winnings which came to £90 and he handed then back to me saying…give half to young Jamie for showing just what he could do up against grown men…(Jamie is only 12) and the other half was to go to Micheal who had broken his nos 4 pole section on the saturday so it would go towards buying a new one.

Merv…you join the Cronin club and become “A Diamond Geezer”…thank you and we hope that you will join us next year at our Festival being held at Peterstone thanks to Martin.

Below Merv collecting his winnings and a couple of pics of some of the people there plus the “Minder” looking after the Raffle prizes….

Thanks to Martin and the generosity of all involved and those members of the Birch who bought Raffle tickets we raised a total of £208. Special thanks to Julz who sold the tickets.

SPECIAL NOTE….on the friday night i told Jamie and Ryan that if they beat their Dad (Kevin) i would give them £20…they both beat him BUT told me to put the money into R)W…so boys well done for beating Dad…it is a day to remember and thank you for your donation.