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Southern aces win Match Fishing Team Championship.

Daiwa Dorking have won the Match Fishing Team Championship on the Warwickshire Avon at Evesham, scoring a remarkable 61 points out of a possible 70. The team, made up of Simon Willsmore, Darren Davies, Will Raison, Michael Buchwalder and Ian Didcote, beat second-placed Shakespeare Superteam by a 12-point margin.

The squad's manager, Simon Willsmore, explained: “We are quite fortunate as most of us know the river well, and lessons learnt over the Bank Holiday festival helped us to formulate a good plan. The key was feeding a good quantity of joker at the start of the match, and refraining from topping up for as long as possible. There were also a lot of fish to be caught on a small maggot feeder – with good perch and eels proving valuable to several of our anglers.

In the individual stakes, it was Pete Morris of W B Clarke who picked up the honours with a weight of 11-8-0 from Peg 19. Pete caught a double-figure barbel on a maggot feeder cast down to a lily bed to his left and a handful of smaller perch on the pole. Matrix Dynamite Trentmen’s Rob Perkins took second spot, with another fine barbel of around 8lb, plus a handful of small roach on bloodworm to finish with 9-14-0.

Result:
1 Daiwa Dorkings 61 points
2 Shakespeare Superteam Ferrymen 52 points  
3 Ultimate Barnsley Blacks 49 points

Individuals:
1 Pete Morris (W B Clarke) 11-8-0 (Peg 19)
2 Rob Perkins (Matrix Dynamite Trentmen) 9-14-0 (Peg 10)
3 Darren Massey (Shakespeare Superteam) 6-15-0 (Peg 64)