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Bennett lifts the Preston Innovations Matchman Of The Year title!

For the third time in four years, northern commercial expert, Andy Bennett, has been crowned the Preston Innovations Matchman of the year.

Andy scored a staggering 98 points to win the event, finishing 26 points clear of second place. The competition ran from June 16th, 2013 to March 16th, 2014 and thanks to the new sponsor, Preston Innovations, Andy won a fantastic £5,000!

The event works by rewarding anglers who frame in matches with 30 or more participants. Winning a match with 30 or more anglers will give an angler three points, with 40 or more four points are awarded, and matches with 50 or more participants rewards anglers with five points.

Delighted with his win, he told Pole Fishing: “It’s great to be crowned champion again this year, bringing the trophy home after finishing runner-up last year is payback for lots of hard work!

“Interestingly, I didn’t get off to the best of starts in this year's campaign, and it wasn’t until mid July that I scored my first points. However, by carefully choosing my matches I slowly started to pick up points, and enjoyed several very good runs of results. Over the Christmas period, I actually scored 21 points in four weeks!

“Many of my points came from matches at Partridge Lakes this year. The winter league ran there has some great turnouts of very good anglers, and with the fishing constantly changing it really keeps you on your toes!

“I must thank my sponsors, Guru, Daiwa and Bait-Tech for all their support too!”