Bag’em Larford Lakes | August Festival 2017
Again, a sell out for this popular annual festival at Larford Lakes. 60 anglers made their draw for sections on both the Specimen, Match and Arena Lakes.
Scored on a points system with weight coming into play in the event of a tie it was local angler Ian Giddins who finally took the honors.
Ian had a favorable draw on most days and made full advantage of 3 end pegs out of five.
That being said, he fished a superb festival scoring 7 points and a total weight of 290-220kilos (644lbs) averaging 129lbs per day.
The Bag’em sponsored angler collected £1000 plus lake and section wins totaling around £1500 in prize funds.
Second overall was Shaun McCarthy (Mossella) who fished brilliantly from some difficult pegs.
Shaun also scored 7 points in total but had a lesser overall weight of 233-550kilos (518lbs) 103lbs per day.
Local angler Harry Harris (Larford) turned in a great performance scoring 9 points over the 5 days and recording a weight of 222-360kilos (493lbs) 99lbs of fish per day as an average.
Fourth overall was Grant Albutt (Drennan) scoring a point total of 9 but decided by weight with 182-480kilos 405lbs.
Fifth was also a 9-point total and went to Warren Jennings (Bag’em) with a weight over the 5 days of 154-200 kilos (342lbs)
Sixth place went to Andy Power (Preston) with a 10-point total and an overall weight of 229-280kilos (509lbs).
Team | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Total |
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Tredegar | 15 | 47 | 36 | 33 | 60 | 191 |
Muffers Divers | 20 | 33 (weight) | 18 | 25 | 26 | 122 |
Bag'em Winter Wonders | 23 (weight) | 12 | 14 | 32 | 14 | 95 |
Cookies Monsters | 23 | 13 | 40 | 18 | 14 | 108 |
Garbolino | 25 (weight) | 27 | 51 | 25 | 20 | 134 |
Brain's Boys | 25 | 36 | 16 | 26 | 33 | 136 |
Ledbury Tackle | 26 | 29 | 43 | 29 | 23 | 150 |
Golden Reel Larford | 31 (weight) | 25 | 30 | 25 | 26 | 137 |
H.T. Angling | 31 | 37 | 27 | 34 | 32 | 161 |
Sheila's Boys | 35 (weight) | 22 (weight) | 19 | 27 | 32 | 135 |
Old Ghost | 35 | 30 | 32 | 27 | 29 | 153 |
Maver Harecombe | 37 | 35 | 38 | 34 | 37 | 181 |
Marukyu | 38 | 33 | 33 | 56 | 37 | 197 |
Miss Fits | 41 | 39 | 26 | 32 | 49 | 187 |
The festival week produced a total of 8,100kilos of fish over the 5 days (17,982lbs) averaging 305lbs per man
A brilliant week enjoyed by all of the 60 competitors
Due to the popularity of the event, names are already being taken for the 2018 event.