To say last week’s five-day festival at Drennan Lindholme Lakes fished well would be an understatement, the lakes showing their very best form as the some of the UK’s top commercial fishery anglers did battle!
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Coming out on top with a perfect five points was double Fish O’Mania champion Andy Bennett, but he needed total weight to get the win, as current Fish O' champ Matty Dawes also scored five section wins.
Andy’s 1284-3-0 total was enough to get him over the line against the 1210-14-0 of Matty, the Guru/Blakes Bait man weighing in catches of 232-12-0, 365-13-0, 98-15-0, 392-2-0 and 194-9-0 to take the title.
Overall result: 1 A Bennett, Guru/Blakes Bait, 5pts (1284-3-0); 2 M Dawes, Preston Innovations, 5 (1210-14-0); 3 K Jones, RW Floats/Blakes Bait, 6; 4 L Marshall, Dynamite Baits, 7 (1206-5-0); 5 K Marsden, Matrix/SonuBaits, 7 (1060-11-0); 6 J Jowett, Preston Innovations/Fisherman’s Way, 8.
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