FORMER WELSH WORLD CHAMPION WINS 2010 SAMF UK MASTERS AT CHESIL

 

Welsh angler Joe Arch won the 2010 SAMF UK MASTERS on the beaches of Chesil in Dorset on the 23^rd and 24^th October.

94 anglers from England and Wales competed for the title and even though the weather conditions were variable i.e. strong onshore winds on Saturday and offshore winds on Sunday, conditions were good for both matches. As you would expect on Chesil there was a variety of species caught including 2 red mullet of 1lb 14oz and 1lb 8oz.

The venue did not fish as well as it can do but there were enough fish on both days for competitors to target. There were 14 different species caught, the main ones being dogfish, codling, whiting, pouting & pollock. On the first day competitors needed between 7 and 10 fish to come in the top four in their sections. Colin Carey from Worthing had the best overall catch with 7 fish for 10lb 3oz. mainly whiting and flatfish. The heaviest fish was a tremendous whiting of 3lb 2oz caught by Gary Strange from Clacton on Sea. Second heaviest fish was a Bass of 2lb 9oz caught by Mike Groves from Kingston Upon Thames

The zone positions on day 1 were:-

A zone 1st   Darren Newland              3lb 12oz.       

A zone 2^nd    Joe Arch                        3lb 10oz.         

A zone 3rd   Hugh Rathbone               3lb 5oz

A zone 4th   Mark Allanson                  3lb 2oz

 

B zone 1^st     Nick Haward                             3lb 13oz.

B zone 2^nd     Orry Turner                    3lb 1oz

B zone 3d     Chris Snow                      2lb 8oz

B zone 4^th    Richard Burt                             2lb 7oz

C Zone 1^st Stuart Littlewood               5lb 9oz

C Zone 2^nd Steve Martin                     2lb 13oz

C Zone 3^rd Peter Corker                     2lb 11oz

C Zone 4^th Eddie Painter                     2lb 11oz

D Zone 1^st Colin Carey                         10lb 3oz

D Zone 2^nd Dave Lane                          7lb 14oz

D Zone 3^rd Robert Tuck                      6lb 0oz

D Zone 4^th Tony Thomas                      5lb 8oz

ALL SAMF MATCHES ARE FISHED ON A CATCH AND RETURN FORMULA, THE FISH ARE MEASURED AND THEN IMMEDIATELY RETURNED. A CONVERSION CHART THEN CONVERTS THE LENGTH TO WEIGHT. TWO YEARS AGO SAMF INTRODUCED SIZE LIMITS IN THEIR MAJOR COMPETITIONS ON COD, WHITING AND BASS TO TRY AND ENCOURAGE MORE ANGLERS TO FISH MATCHES. AS A RESULT THIS REDUCED THE ACTUAL NUMBERS OF FISH COUNTING TO AN ANGLERS SCORE BUT GAVE EVERY ANGLER THE POSSIBILITY OF DOING WELL EVEN ON THE LAST CAST BY CATCHING A LARGE FISH.

Day 2 again saw good conditions and anglers needed 5 to 11 fish to score well. Top catch was made by Michael Groves from Kingston upon Thames with 7 fish for 5lb 9oz. The biggest fish was a codling of 2lb 5oz caught by Darren Phillips of Lee On Solent, 2^nd heaviest fish was a mullet of 2lb 1oz caught by Stuart Dewhurst from Preston

Day 2 zone winners

A zone 1st   Steve Martin                   4lb 15oz

A zone 2nd   Stuart Dewhurst             4lb 8oz

A zone 3rd   Robert Tuck                     3lb 7oz

A zone 4th   Steve Durrant                3lb 5oz

B zone 1^st     Michael Groves                5lb 9oz

B zone 2^nd    Keith Morley                   5lb 3oz

B zone 3^rd    Paul Stevens                    3lb 9oz

B zone 4^th    Les Trish                        3lb 8oz

C Zone 1^st Richard Cleal                       3lb 13oz

C Zone 2^nd Orry Turner                      3lb 5oz

C Zone 3^rd Paul Tovell                          3lb 3oz

C Zone 4^th Richard Burt                      3lb 1oz

D Zone 1^st Joe Arch                            4lb 4oz

D Zone 2^nd Darren Newland                 4lb 1oz

D Zone 3^rd Matt Brook                        3lb 3oz

D Zone 4^th Bill Lindfield                      3lb 2oz

FINAL POSITIONS

1        Joe Arch                        9 pts          

2        Steve Martin                   10 pts                  

3        Darren Newland               11 pts         

4        Orry Turner                    15 pts

5        Colin Carey                      18 pts                  

6        Robert Tuck                    19pts          

7        Michael Groves                30 pts                  

8        Keith Morley                   32 pts        

9        Richard Burt                             32 pts                  

10      Billy Lindfield                  35 pts                  

11       Steve Durrant                39pts         

12      Dave Lane                       42pts

13      George Smith                  50pts

14      Alan Price                       55pts

15      Hugh Rathbone                57pts

16      Paul Stevens                    58pts

17      Les Trish                        58pts

Ladies Winner was Heather Lindfield from Greasby

Junior Winner was Henry Randell from Holt

A pairs competition was run within the match and winners were:-

1              Pete Corker (Holywell) & Darren Newland (Isle of Wight)

2             Keith Morley (Kessingland) & Paul Tovell (Gorleston)

3             Steve Durrant (Felixstowe) & Mark Pinder (Ipswich)

Joe was overall champion with a 1st place and a 2^nd place in his zone giving him 9 points.  Joe is a 49 year old from Cardiff who was individual world champion in 1997 and member of the welsh team that took team gold that year. He was 2nd in zone on day 1 with 5 pollock and a bass,  all caught at short range He was 1st in zone on day 2 with 2 pout a dogfish, whiting and a garfish (caught in the last 5 mins). He is sponsored by Julian Shambrook of Anyfish Anywhere and the tackle he used was : 

rod  - Anyfish Anywhere big beach

reel – Daiwa 7HT

line - Ultima F1 platinum, powerflex shockleader,memorex snoods 

hooks  -kamasan

He regularly fishes chesil and is very experienced on the venue. His garfish was caught on the “washing line” rig !!

 Steve Martin from St. Leonards on Sea ran him close also with a zone 2nd and a 1^st giving him 10 points.  

Cash prizes down to 17^th position overall and section pools down to 4^th place in each section each day giving a total cash prize fund in excess of £4800, plus tackle prizes and trophies. SAMF is grateful in particular to our member Julian Shambrook of ANYFISH ANYWHERE who donated many of the zone, and individual prizes including a top of the range rod for the winner’ We are also grateful to DAIWA & ULTIMA for also donating tackle for the prize table.

Everyone who attended agreed that once again the event had been successful, and this venue will be used again for major events.

Next years final is scheduled to be fished at Orford Island in October/November which is already proving to be a popular venue. Qualifying matches are already being run around the country. Contact Andy Steele, 01772 611597, for details of local events and how to organise qualifiers.

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