Championship Round Four.

Attendance : 16
Venue : Weybread Halls Pit
Total weight : 23lb
Average weight : 1lb 7oz
D.N.W : 0

The Halls Pit at Weybread proved to be a popular venue choice for the fourth round of the Harleston Junior Angling clubs summer series attracting a new attendance record for the lake with sixteen anglers lining the bank. The deep clear water and dense margin cover of the lake again presented new problems and tactics to overcome for the youngsters and for the second week some new names in the frame. The main target species in this lake are the prolific Rudd shoals, which are generally small averaging less than an ounce but make up for it with their vast numbers. With the fish well spread out speed is the name of the game, and the whip is the top tactic for good catches.

Performance of the season so far came from the top rod on the night Philip Shulver. Philip employed a four-metre whip fished to hand to chalk up his first ever match victory, hammering out well over one hundred small Rudd and amass a very creditable 5lb ¼oz to leave the opposition trailing in his wake. Philip drew well picking out the Oak tree peg and used maggot fished shallow on a sixteen hook to land fish from the off. He kept the fish coming with loose-fed maggots, feeding small amounts at irregular intervals and only when his catch rate slowed to avoid working the fish into a feeding frenzy and attracting Pike into his peg.

With Philip way out in front it was left to Ricky Leggett, Shane Riches and Kaden Spooner to battle it out for second place and it proved to be a close fought contest with only five ounces separating them at the final whistle. Shane Riches on peg 6 finished triumphant from the battle swinging in a bonus Perch in the dying seconds to claim second place and record his highest ever placing with 3lb 8½oz of Rudd including some quality specimens and the bonus Perch caught late on to edge out Kaden Spooner by just a half an ounce. All Shane's fish fell to waggler tactics and double red maggot presented shallow close to the reeds.

Young Kaden Spooner drew next to the winner and fished similar whip tactics to land Rudd and Perch from close to the reed beds just missing out on second place with 3lb 8oz.

Fourth placed Ricky Leggett landed 3lb 3¼oz including some quality Rudd early in the match on a small waggler fished shallow then added some small fish later on to earn good league points with a solid performance.

Things are now hotting up in the league stakes with four results now on the board, the club champion is decided on the best four results from the six match series meaning anglers can drop the two lowest scores. Out in front is last years runner up Jack Weatherley who again returned a good performance to finish fifth and tops the league with 71 points consisting one win (20 Points), a second (19) and two fifths (32). Philip's Shulver's excellent performance and the 20 points for the win has now pushed him up to second place in the league table tying with Ricky Leggett hot on Jack's heals with 66 points. Edward Howman suffered a poor draw on the night and suffered a set back finishing 11th but is still well in contention with 61 points.

1. Peg 7 Philip Shulver 5lb ½oz
2. Peg 6 Shane Riches 3lb 8½oz
3. Peg 8 Kaden Spooner 3lb 8oz
4. Peg 9 Ricky Leggett 3lb 3½oz
5. Peg 1 Jack Weatherley 1lb 9oz
6. Peg 10 Andrew Clifford 1lb 7oz
7. Peg 5 Harry Ramsey 12oz
8. Peg 13 Aiden Collett 11½oz
9. Peg 12 James Lowe 11¼oz
10. Peg 14 Travis Woodward 10oz
11. Peg 4 Edward Howman 8oz
12. Peg 2a Reece Clayden 6oz
    Peg 15 James Collings 6oz
    Peg 11 Calam Regan 6oz
13. Peg 2 Declan Nicole 5¼oz
14. Peg 3 Daniel Elliott 3½oz

League to date.

1. Jack Weatherley : 71pt
2. Ricky Leggett : 66pt
   Philip Shulver : 66pt
3. Edward Howman : 61pt
4. James Lowe : 54pt
5. James Collings : 49pt
6. Travis Woodward : 42pt
7. Shane Riches : 41pt
   Reece Clayden : 41pt
8. Daniel Elliott : 38 points
9. Harry Ramsey : 36pt
10. Callum Regan : 35pt
11. Andrew Clifford : 32pt
12. Ian Lange : 28
13. Aiden Collett : 24pt
14. Kaden Spooner : 18pt
15. Samuel Clifford : 14pt
16. Anthony Ing : 9pt
17. Declan Nicole : 8pt
18. Matthew Loane : 4pt
19. Scott Allen : 3pt

Seasons Specimens
Carp   Shane Riches 8lb 14oz Club Pit
Bream Philip Shulver 2lb 13oz Middle Pit
Roach James Collings 9½oz Middle Pit
Tench Reece Claydon 2oz Club Pit