PHIL Ringer emerged from the shadow of his brother Steve’s recent Cornish festival success to notch up a victory of his own with a four match maximum 36 points haul in the Keenets backed 180-entry White Acres Spring festival on the Cornish holiday park’s lakes, Bolingey and Porth reservoir. In fact in form Phil even recorded a fifth section win making it a clean sweep from start to finish to leave the rest of the field scrapping for the minor, but still lucrative, placings. A previous winner of the Fish O Mania final, recently 25-year-old Phil has had to stand by as elder brother Steve won first the Parkdean Masters then the Van Den Eynde Festival on the White Acres circuit but he hit back with second place in the Dynamite event last week before this latest flawless show. Phil had done all the hard work by the end of day four having won the festival with one day to spare thanks to four straight section wins and with no other angler having acheived three wins could not be caught on the last day no matter where he finished. However Phil desperately wanted the clean sweep and set his stall at Bolingey 35 for a another win with a positive crumb feeder attack baiting two pieces of hair rigged meat. That saw him enjoy a profitable opening 90 minutes taking several carp tight across for the basis of his 47 lb section winning haul. He began the week in equally impressive style carding an opening day lake second overall success at Pollawyn 43 where he turned his unfancied peg into a section winner long poling meat at 16 metres for an all carp haul. The second day saw Phil draw Python 10 where some fish down the side were added to crumb feedered hair rigged meat tempted carp across for a joint section win and maximum points again, tying with end peg 9. The third day saw Phil step up a gear winning Twin Oaks from peg 4 with a far bank feeder attack again baiting hair rigged meat over Ringer Carp Bait feed for a 44-6-0 haul. At Porth on the fourth day Phil sealed the win with one day to spare after feedering dead red maggots and a groundbait mix of Ringer Carp Bait diluted with brown crumb at peg 73 for an 18-0-0 89 skimmers lake win. ‘After last weeks second place I didn’t think I’d get another chance of a win so quickly,’ smiled Phil. ‘I know I didn’t need to win the section today but it was nice to achieve the maximum, although I thought I might have been beaten by some late big fish caught by the angler to my left,’ he said. In addition to the 3K cheque Phil trousered another £600 in pools money and added to his previous weeks plundering saw his fortnights efforts rewarded in the region of six grand. ADAM’S AWAKENING The battle for second was fiercely contested with several anglers in with a chance on the last day but making the most of the final match at peg 1 on Twin Oaks was Adam Wakelin. Adam (Dynamite Middy) poled along the end bank for 65-10-0 of mostly carp on the worm and that gave him a 35 pt. return beating Tim Rowe to the runner-up £1500 cheque with a better dropped section score of 7. Tim (Thatchers 2000) won Trelawney on the final day from peg 26 with 93-15-0 but his discarded result of 6 pt. saw him settle for the £900 third placed cheque. Meanwhile Adam also acheived the accolade of being nominated as Bill Knott’s Man Of the Match receiving a cut glass crystal bowl. ‘The most important and best result of the week was today, winning on Twin Oaks,’ said 22-year-old fish biology graduate Adam from Mansfield Nottinghamshire. SPECIAL PRIZES BOLINGEY once again provided the biggest fish of the week the £50 prize being claimed by the superb 22 lb 3 oz carp landed by local ace Dave Hillier. The £100 cheque for the biggest match haul of the week went to former Masters winner Darren Cox with a thumping 150 lb 14 oz haul from Pollawyn’s peg 28 on day three. The lucky recipient of the mystery weight draw was Martin Rafferty in 153rd place with 62 lb 14 oz. LONGEST RUNNING SPONSORS HAPPY TO HELP KEENETS now part of the Sharpes group are the longest running sponsors of White Acres Festivals and Group Sales Manager Brendan Fitzgerald was on hand to personally present the tackle prizes worth £4000. Keenets core products including umbrellas, keep nets, landing nets and handles were awarded to the top 20 individual anglers. ‘We are proud of our long standing association as sponsors of White Acres festivals,’ commented Brendan. Cash prizes of £3000 down to £200 were awarded to the top ten anglers. DAILY DAY 1 Pollawyn Lee Kerry (Browning Hotrods) 112-6-0; Trelawney /Python Wayne Nolan (NIC)110-3-0; Twin Oaks Micky Hughes (Simons 2000) 63-3-0; Porth Andy Dare (Daiwa Trentmen) 24-15-0; Bolingey Kieron Rich (Mosella) 92-13-0. DAY 2 Trelawney / Python Andy Geldhart (Colmic Ossett) 81-15-0; Twin Oaks Steve Sanders (Daiwa Dorking) 54-6-0; Porth Mark Pleavin (Deggy’s Tackle) DAY 3 Twin Oaks Phil Ringer (Ringer Baits) 44-6-0; Porth Tom Pickering (Preston Innovations) 19-6-0; Bolingey Steve Ringer (Shimano Ringer Baits)128-5-0;Pollawyn Darren Cox (Garbolino)150-14-0; Trelawney / Python Paul Carnwell (Blake Hall) 128-12-0. DAY 4 Porth Phil Ringer (Ringer Baits VDE) 18-0-0; Bolingey Bob Rand (Manadon Angling) 63-2-0; Pollawyn Tim Rowe (Thatchers 2000) 88-11-0; Trelawney / Python Stuart Carol (Daiwa) 102-8-0; Twin Oaks Kian Wardle (MAP Starlets) 35-3-0, DAY 5 Bolingey Rob Wootten (Bristol) 81-14-0; Pollawyn Lee Edwards (Mosella) 121-2-0; Python and Trelawney Tim Rowe (Thatchers 2000) 93-15-0.; Twin Oaks Adam Wakelin (Dynamite Middy) 65-10-0; Porth Chris Jenkinson (Daiwa Trentmen) 18-0-0.
Daily reports
THE sell-out Keenets Festival started hot and sunny with some fantastic fishing on all the lakes, it has not mattered where you draw as the fish have spread out all over the lakes, writes Clint Elliot.
Pollawyn produced the most consistent match weights with 36 anglers weighing a massive 1,750lb, that’s an average of over 48lb per angler. But Pollawyn wasn’t the only lake that is on form Trelawney and Python known as smaller fish lakes weighed an incredible 1,400lb that’s 40lb per angler.
Monday’s overall champion was Lee Kerry with 112lb 6oz from peg 25 Pollawyn. 2nd on the day was Wayne Nolan on Trelawney peg 21 with 110lb 3oz and 3rd was Rob Wooten from peg 47 Pollawyn with 105lb 4oz.
Day 1
A Section Pollawyn Lee Kerry Peg 25 112lb 06oz
B Section Trelawney/Python Wayne Nolan Peg 21 110lb 03oz
C Section Twin Oaks
D section Porth Andy Dare Peg 88 24lb 15oz
E Section Bolingey Kieron Rich Peg 23 92lb 13oz
Overall Top 10
1st Lee Kerry 9 Points 112lb 06oz
2nd Wayne Nolan 9 Points 110lb 03oz
3rd Phil Ringer 9 Points 105lb 04oz
4th Steve Waters 9 Points 94lb 08oz
5th Kieron Rich 9 Points 92lb 13oz
6th Harry Billing 9 Points 88lb
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8th Jason Le Bosquet 9 Points 72lb 10oz
9th Paul Hillier 9 Points 71lb 02oz
10th Darren Walters 9 Points 67lb 05oz
ON day two the wind has changed to a n
Day 2
A Section Trelawney/Python Andy Geldhart Peg 21 81lb 15oz
B Section Twin Oaks Steve Sanders Peg 36 54lb 06oz
C Section Porth
D Section Bolingey Paul Greenwood Peg 12 62lb 01oz
E Section Pollawyn
Overall Top 10
1st Kieron Rich 18 Points 223lb 09oz
2nd Phil Ringer 18 Points 131lb 06oz
3rd Harry Billing 18 Points 113lb 08oz
4th
5th
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7th Darren Walters 17 Points 90lb 08oz
8th Paul Greenwood 17 Points 74lb 04oz
9th Mike Jones 17 Points 71lb 14oz
10th Tim Nash 17 Points 64lb 08oz
Day 3
A Section Twin Oaks Phil Ringer Peg 4 44lb 06oz
B Section Porth Tommy Pickering Peg 89 19lb 06oz
C Section Bolingey Steve Ringer Peg 18 128lb 05oz
D section Pollawyn Darren Cox Peg 28 150lb 14oz
E Section Trelawney/Python Paul Carnwell Peg 18 128lb 12oz
Overall Top 10
1st Phil Ringer 27 Points 175lb 12oz
2nd Harry Billing 26 Points 169lb 06oz
3rd
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5th Kieron Rich 25 Points 251lb 10oz
6th
7th Tim Nash 25 Points 157lb 08oz
8th Adam Wakwlin 25 Points 135lb 06oz
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10th Martin Cocks 24 Points 92lb 13oz
Day 4 and Phil Ringer has it in the bag, but that’s not good enough for Phil he told us that he was after the prestigious five section wins, Phil kept his consistency with another lake win on Porth weighing 18lb of feeder caught skimmers from peg 73. The race is still on for second place with over a dozen anglers still in contention. The North westerly winds have kept the weights down but Stuart Carol still managed to capture 102lb 08oz of mainly Carp from peg 32 Trelawney
Day 4
A Section Porth Phil Ringer Peg 73 18lb
B Section Bolingey Bob Rand Peg 11 63lb 02oz
C Section Pollawyn Tim Rowe Peg 25 88lb 11oz
D Section Trelawney/Python Stuart Carol Peg 32 102lb 08oz
E Section Twin Oaks Kian Wardle Peg 5 35lb 03oz
Overall Top 10
1st Phil Ringer 36 Points 193lb 12oz
2nd Harry Billing 33 Points 189lb 07oz
3rd Adam Waklin 33 Points 153lb 02oz
4th Steve Ringer 32 Points 254lb 03oz
5th Tim Rowe 32 Points 212lb 04oz
6th
7th Tim Nash 31 Points 171lb 06oz
8th Andy Geldhart 31 Points 161lb 01oz
9th
10th Andy Dare 30 Points 172lb 14oz