Report by Tom Scholey
Garbolino ace Scott Geens took the honours in Evesham’s second bloodworm qualifier of 2012, with a cracking 11-3-0 bag made up entirely of quality roach. Drawn on peg 14 on the Town Length, Scott put his faith in an 11 metre line, where he introduced a dozen balls of groundbait and joker. By varying his rigs and presentation, Scott kept quality roach coming for the duration of the match, and though sport was far from hectic, he enjoyed a large stamp of fish, having to use his landing net on almost every one!
Scott Geens
Second place fell to the current Shakespeare Champion, Andrew ‘Spud’ Murphy. Spud also enjoyed a good initial run of fish on bloodworm, before bites subsided. He then picked up his waggler rod, and caught small chublets steadily for the rest of the match, to finish with a 10-0-0 total.
There was a tie for third place between England ace Sean Ashby, and Shakespeare Stalwart Tony Bench. Sean caught a net of small roach on bloodworm and joker from peg 62, while Tony caught a small barbel, and a couple of eels on a maggot feeder from peg 33.
1 Scott Geens (Garbolino) 11-3-0 (peg 14)
2 Andy Murphy (Shimano Wales) 10-0-0 (peg 6)
3 Tony Bench (Shakespeare Superteam) 8-7-0 (peg 33)
= Sean Ashby (Sensas) 8-7-0 (peg 62)
5 Mark Brush (Daiwa Gordon League) 8-7-0 (peg 11)
Qualifiers
Scott Geens
Tony Bench
Pete Jayes
