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Chub bag wins Evesham Individual Championship
Garbolino, and ABC Baits-backed ace Lee Edwards has won the Evesham Individual Championship, with a 15-12-0 net of chub. Drawn on Peg 35, the River Avon’s confluence with the River Isbourne, Lee included fish to 2lb 8oz in his net.

He told Match Fishing: “I am over the moon to win an event as prestigious as this. I know that the peg has some form for chub, and so I set my stall out to target them on waggler tactics. I fished between 18 inches, and three feet deep and included plenty of small dace and bleak, as well as some good quality perch and chub in my catch.”

Runner-up, Evesham Bait Box-sponsored Geoff Spiers, banked one of Evesham’s famous barbel, as well as some smaller perch for his 8-2-0 net.  Drawn on Peg 6 on the Crown Meadow, Jeff pole-fished flat float and lobworm, over a bed of chopped worm and caster for his weight.

In third place was Drennan’s Simon Willsmore, who caught a tidy net of roach on bloodworm tactics from Peg 70. Simon fished two lines, one at 11m and another at 13m, rotating between the two to keep fish coming.

Result:

1 Lee Edwards (ABC Baits/ Garbolino) 15-12-0 (Peg 35)
2 Jeff Spiers (Evesham Bait Box) 8-2-0 (Peg 6)
3 Simon Willsmore (Drennan) 8-1-0 (Peg 70)
4 Will Raison (Daiwa/Old Ghost) 6-10-0 (Peg 1)
5 Adrian Higginbottom (Matrix Dynamite Trentmen) 6-9-0 (Peg 64)