The Big Hayes Lake at Todber is something rather special in the south west. A prolific day ticket water with loads of hungry doubles and a good few twenties it’s a bag up water where you need to be on the ball to get a place in the BCAC semi’s. Rob Marsh and Lee Merritt have been highly successful there over the last few years and most methods will produce fish. It’s definitely a runs water and suits the angler that likes to work at his fishing.
ELIMINATOR SPONSOR
CC Moore
C.C. Moore is a long-established family company based around an old watermill on the banks of the River Stour in Dorset, with over 150 years of trading in the animal feed and milling industry. Our experience in animal nutrition and feed formulation, combined with a passion for angling, has enabled us to develop high nutrient value baits for coarse fishing.
The Big Hayes lake at Todber Manor has quickly turned into a firm favourite with BCAC competitors and once again the Dorset day ticket lake was one of the first eliminators to sell out. At 8.5 acres there is plenty of room for everyone and with a stock in excess of 700 carp, big weights are always a possibility. Last years event went right down to the wire with the top three teams all finishing within 6 pounds of each other. BCAC stalwarts Rob Marsh and Lee Merritt once again head the line up at Todber and start as event favourites, but there are plenty more talented anglers in the line up including teams from Kent Tackle and Velocity Angling.
MATCH SUMMARY
At the CC Moore sponsored Todber Manor it was young guns Kev Grout and Matt Wylde who took the honours from a swim no one else fancied having come last out of the draw bag at this Dorset action venue. Favourites to win the event, the ever consistent Mainline backed Rob Marsh and Lee Merritt took second just ounces ahead of newcomers to the tournament, Scott Fry and Andy Chappell and it was bait sticks of black ground bait, small bags of pellets, and bright orange wafters that produced most of the 105 fish that were caught.
At the CC Moore sponsored Todber Manor it was young guns Kev Grout and Matt Wylde who took the honours from a swim no one else fancied having come last out of the draw bag at this Dorset action venue. Favourites to win the event, the ever consistent Mainline backed Rob Marsh and Lee Merritt took second just ounces ahead of newcomers to the tournament, Scott Fry and Andy Chappell and it was bait sticks of black ground bait, small bags of pellets, and bright orange wafters that produced most of the 105 fish that were caught.
