Barclays National

Barclaycard took the team win at the Barclays National that was held at Draycote this week where 7 teams battled it out. Just a four fish limit these days keeps the result interesting and the trophies spread out. London Northern took the took the Blagdon Bowl for second place.

Draycote was fishing it’s socks off with plenty of buzzers around and all apart from 2 caught their 4 fish limit which made for great sport. Ash Cooper was the best of that with 4 fish for 10lbs 15ozs.

Practice day was flat calm and bright sun for most of the day and as well as the bung we spent a good part of the day trying to tempt the bigger rising fish in the middle to take. On the competition day day conditions had changed to a good ripple and overcast and the hoppers were working great. My best was a light green size 12 on the point that they wanted static, figure of eight or even stripped when you cast at them. It was great sport but why do you always have a downpour just before the finish!