With the River Tees carrying a touch of extra water due to overnight rain, conditions were perfect for Thornaby AC’s Peter Johnson Memorial Trout match fished between Croft and Hurworth
With the River Tees carrying a touch of extra water due to overnight rain, conditions were perfect for Thornaby AC’s Peter Johnson Memorial Trout match fished between Croft and Hurworth.
Although there was a slight improvement in the number of trout caught compared to the previous match, despite the perfect conditions the match proved a dour affair with only three of the 13 competitors taking sizable trout to the scales.
Long-standing match secretary Bobby Trees, of Darlington, caught two trout from the glide on peg 62 above the salmon pool to win with a total weight of 2lb 12oz.
He fished stickfloat and worm for an hour without a bite, but then saw a trout surface upstream of his float. He cast towards the rise and the fish immediately took his worm.
After a short tussle the 1lb 15oz trout was safely in the net.
He also caught a smaller trout just before the end of the match to finish well clear of second placed Jim Johnson of Darlington, who took two trout for 1lb using similar tactics from peg 35, at the bottom of the long island.
Middlesbrough’s Dave Alderson, runner up in last week’s match on the same venue, caught a 13oz trout from just above the railway bridge to clinch third spot.
At The Oaks, Luke Hawksworth, of Daiwa Cleveland Angling, has been on form with a first and second place in the last week.
Chris Watson, of the Oaks, won the Saturday match fished by 39, with 106lb 7oz of carp to 8lb on pellet, to finish just ahead of Hawksworth who caught 106lb 1oz.
The following day Hawksworth topped a field of 33, with 121lb 9oz of carp to 2lb, on pellet at 13m from Sycamore peg 26.
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