Wayne Swinscoe has sent us another great report on his recent terrific Drennan Pairs League Round 3 match win on the River Welland!
“Once again we were at the mercy of some diabolical weather. The previous day’s storms had flooded the River Glen so the whole match was back on the Town Welland and was fished in torrential rain with gusty winds!
“As the match started, the top end of the length began to colour up badly; this made it a match of two distinct halves. A Zone at the top end was quite poor, but B Zone was absolutely solid with roach and produced over a dozen 20lb weights!” he explained.
And it was Wayne who led the field! Pegged two swims above the tax office bridge (a good area), he employed the time-honoured method on the venue – breadpunch fished around six metres out, both to hand and with a short line setup.
Wayne was in good company, pegged between a host of ‘Fenland baggers’! In fact all the top four came from this area. After five hours of brilliant roach fishing Wayne put 220 fish on the scales for a thumping 41lb 9oz to run out a comfortable winner!
Three pegs upstream was Alister Ogilvie who was second with 31lb 10oz, just ouncing out Wayne’s stablemate Steve Winter – who had 31lb 9oz. Top pair on the day was Wayne and partner Chris Jenkinson with 49lb, which puts them well in contention for the title!
Steve Winter is also pictured below with his fine roach catch.
Results:
A Zone:
1 P Chesterton (Maver Bait-Tech) 7lb 12 oz
2 C Jenkinson (Maver Bait-Tech) 7lb 7oz
3 A Lemon (Sensas Mark One) 5lb 4oz
Sections:
1 B Harding (Maver Bait-Tech) 2lb 8.5oz
2 P Spriggs (Sensas Mark One) 9oz
3 M Griggs (Middy) 3lb 7oz
B Zone:
1 W Swinscoe (Drennan) 41lb 9oz
2 A Ogilvie (Maver Bait-Tech) 31lb 10oz
3 S Winter (Drennan) 31lb 9oz
Sections:
1 S Willsmore (Drennan) 23lb 10oz
2 A Bates (Maver Bait-Tech) 28lb 10oz
3 B Wiggington (Maver Bait-Tech) 23lb 12oz
Top pair: W Swinscoe, C Jenkinson 49lb
Pairs League:
1 A Bates & S Slater – 90lb 11oz
2 W Swinscoe & C Jenkinson – 88lb 14oz
3 S Winter & M Griggs – 87lb 5oz