Drennan International
Coca Cola Junior Festival 2010
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It was once again time for the White Acres Junior festival, this year we have 19 juniors aged between 10 and 15 years old fishing the festival which is generously sponsored by Coca Cola and Drennan International.
The two day festival will be fished on Jennys & Trelawney and the young anglers have been split in to two sections and will rotate the lakes they fish. Despite chilly mornings it has been fantastic weather leading up to the festivals and fingers crosses the weather holds out for the anglers as in previous years they have really battled against the elements. This year we have asked all the juniors to fill out their own catch reports for the two days so we have a bigger festival report for you.
Day One
Today there was a random draw for the juniors with all the pegs for Jennys & Trelawney going into the bag and the juniors drawing not only their peg for the day but the lake they will be fishing.
A Section Jennys
It was a great day on Jennys with the anglers catching over 420lb between the ten of them, here is how the day went in their own words.
Lake winner 15 year old Reading angler Jake Gallagher fished the long pole at 13 meters with corn and caught 82lb of tench and F1’s from peg 20.
15 year old Thomas Moretti (Maver Farnborough) from Crowthorne was on peg 18 and had a weight of 53lb 2oz, Thomas caught a few carp and F1’s on the method feeder with banded pellet, tench and roach on chopped worm and caster at 9 meters and tench & crucians on pellet at 13 meters.
Luke Wrzosek (Barnsley Juniors/Petes Tackle) was third on the lake, Luke caught f1’s and small carp on the method to the island with pellet from peg 6 for a weight of 53lb 1oz, Luke is 15 and from Wakefield.
Fifteen year old Harry Wykes from Penzance was on Jennys peg 2 and had a weight of 45lb 5oz, Harry caught at 10.5 meters on the pole with chopped worm, caster and corn he caught roach at 4 meters on the pole shallow and 3 large carp in the margins on meat and corn.
Richard Kendrick (Tusses Tackle) also had 46lb 5oz, 15 year old Richard from Coventry was on Jennys peg 14 and caught on the method feeder with 8mm white boilies on the hook.
Graeme Docker (Advanced Pole Repairs), 14 from Sutton-at-Hone, was on Jennys peg 16 and had 45lb 11oz, Graeme caught 2 carp and F1’s on the method feeder with groundbait and on the long pole to the island with 6mm pellet and caught tench and skimmers on the pole with chopped worm.
11 year old Jake Nightingale (Tri-cast Rochdale) from Littleborrough had a weight of 27lb 9oz, Jake was on peg 4 and fed micro pellet and fished a 4mm banded pellet at 5 meters and fished corn & meat in the margins.
Section Winners
Jake Gallagher peg 20 5 points 82lb 14oz
Luke Wrozosek peg 6 5 points 53lb 1oz
B Section Trelawney
It was also a good day on Trelawney, the weighst were close across the pegs and the anglers weighed in with over 300lbs between them.12 year old Kaidie Taylor (Mosella) from Barnsley one of our two girls fishing the junior festival won her lake and section today with 48lb 15oz from Trelawney peg 26, Kadie caught a mixture of carp, F1’s & roach she started off feeding 2 + 2 on the deck with 6mm soft pellet feeding soaked micros with a toss pot and also caught at 11meters shallow with 6mm banded pellets feeding 6mm pellets with a catapult.
Ben Proctor (Maver Farnborough) 12 years old from Evesham was on peg 8 and weighed in with 41lb, Ben caught up in the water with pellet.
Elliott O’Neill a fifteen year old from Bristol had a weight of 40lb, Elliott was on peg 28 and caught on the bottom fishing the pole with a soft hook pellet.
Josh Gilbert, 15 from St. Austell had a weight of 31lb 2oz from peg 24. Josh started on the method feeder and casted tight to the bay a couple of times before he hooked a carp of around 9lbs. He then went on to the pole but had no luck. Since the start of the match he had fed casters at 4 meters so he went on to this line and caught plenty of decent roach and rudd shallow. Whilst doing this he was also continuously feeding his margin line and in the last two hours of the match went down the edge on this line but he only had 2 small F1’s so quickly went back to his caster line where he caught steadily.
14 year old Brad Proctor (Willys worms/Evesham Youth/Maver Farnborough) from Evesham had 24lb 5oz from peg 6, Brad caught down the right margin on corn.
Elliott Fay (Take the Bait Dawlish), 15 from Newton Abbott was on peg 30 and had a weight of 24lb 2oz, Elliott caught F1’s shallow at 13 meters on pellet and carp and F1’s down the edge on pellet.
Section Winners
Kadie Taylor peg 26 5 points 48lb 15oz
Sam Brown peg 15 5 points 46lb 8oz
Here is how the results look at the end of day one.
Overall Top Ten
| Name | Points | Weight | |
| 1st | Jake Gallagher |
5 points | 82lb 14oz |
| 2nd | Luke Wrzosek |
5 points | 53lb 1oz |
| 3rd | Kadie Taylor | 5 points | 48lb 15oz |
| 4th | Sam Brown | 5 points | 46lb 8oz |
| 5th | Thomas Moretti | 4 points | 53lb 2oz |
| 6th | Harry Wykes | 4 points | 46lb 5oz |
| 7th | Ben Proctor | 4 points | 41lb |
| 8th | Elliott O’Neill | 4 points | 40lb |
| 9th | Richard Kendrick | 3 points | 46lb 5oz |
| 10th | Chloe Raynor | 3 points | 37lb 4oz |
Day Two
After a great start to the festival it was full steam ahead once again today with the anglers swapping lakes today they were keen to find out some information on making the most from their lakes. It was a very cold start to the day and in a vast contrast to day one it stayed clouded over and bitterly cold all day.
A Section Trelawney
Trelawney fished even better today with the ten young anglers having an accumulative weight of over 450lbs between them. Here are their catch reports from the day.
Winning the lake and his section once again was Jake Gallagher, Jake had a weight of 83lb 14oz caught from peg 30. He caught 60 small F1’s at 13 meters and 7 “lumps” on meat down the edge.
Luke Wrzosek was on peg 12 and had a weight of 62lb 13oz, Luke caught F1’s and 8 carp at 13 meters shallow on pellet.
Harry Wykes had a weight of 56lb 1oz from peg 10, Harry caught at 11.5 meters on the deck and shallow with 6mm pellets for F1’s and 2 carp, he also had 2 carp down the edge on meat and corn.
Thomas Moretti was on peg 22 and had a weight of 23lb, he caught 4 F1’s on the method feeder with double dead maggot, a 4lb tench and a few F1’s at 6 meters with banded pellet on the deck and three carp and 40 F1’s on 5mm banded pellet at 2ft deep at 13 meters.
Graeme Docker caught 2 carp for 12lbs and the rest were mainly F1’s, he caught on corn and pellet at 3 & 13 meters from peg 14 for a total weight of 44lb 12oz.
Jake Nightingale caught on micro pellet fished over a 4mm hook pellet at 9 and 5 meters and on caster and corn in the margins for a weight of 39lb 1oz from peg 8.
On peg 26 Richard Kendrick weighed in with 25lb 15oz, Richard caught on banded pellet at 13 meters and on the method with 8mm white boilies.
Section Winners
Jake Gallagher peg 30 83lb 14oz
Luke Wrzosek peg 12 62lb 13oz
B Section Jennys
There was a total of 350lbs from the anglers on Jennys today with the weights fair from across all of the pegs.
Winning the lake today was Brad Proctor, Brad was on peg 10 and had 51lb 8oz caught down the edge and on the straight lead.
Elliott O’Neill was on peg 16 and caught on the pellet waggler 1ft deep with 8 mil hard pellet for a weight of 44lb 10oz.
Ben Proctor had a weight of 43lb 12oz caught on pellet up in the water from peg 18.
Kadie Taylor on peg 6 was second in her section with 40lb 12oz.
Kadie caught fishing pellet shallow at 11 & 13 meters, she caught a mixture of carp and F1’s and a few skimmers and had one carp on meat down the margins.
Joshua Gilbert was on peg 4 and had a weight of 37lb 9oz, Josh fed his 13 meter line, caster line and margins then went straight on to the method feeder and caught a 2lb carp, this then went quiet so mean while he catapulted plenty of 6mm pellets on his 13 meter line and realised the carp were shallow so he went about a foot deep and caught some F1’s and proper carp.
He had a short spell on his caster line to back up the weight of the carp and towards the end he also tried his edge line but he couldn’t “buy a bite”
On peg 20 Elliot Fay had a weight of 29lb 8oz; he caught carp to 6lb on the method feeder off the island and a few small fish at 13 meters with pellet on the deck. Elliott is a disabled angler who suffers from a muscle and nerve wasting condition, it affects his fingers, hands, walking and balance.
Section Winners
Brad Proctor peg 10 51lb 8oz
Elliott O’Neil peg 16 44lb 10oz
That was the 2010 White Acres Coca Cola & Drennan International Junior festival and here are the final standings.
Overall Results
| Name | Points | Weight | |
| 1st | Jake Gallagher |
10 points | 166lb 12oz |
| 2nd | Luke Wrzosek | 10 points | 115lb 14oz |
| 3rd | Kadie Taylor | 9 points | 89lb 11oz |
| 4th | Elliott O’Neil | 9 points | 84lb 10oz |
| 5th | Thomas Moretti | 8 points | 106lb 2oz |
| 6th | Harry Wykes | 8 points | 102lb 6oz |
| 7th | Sam Brown | 8 points | 86lb 14oz |
| 8th | Ben Proctor | 8 points | 84lb 12oz |
| 9th | Brad Proctor | 8 points | 75lb 13oz |
| 10th | Graeme Docker | 5 points | 90lb 7oz |
| 11th | Josh Gilbert | 5 points | 68lb 11pz |
| 12th | Jake Nightingale | 5 points | 66lb 10oz |
| 13th | Sam Hughes | 4 points | 95lb 12oz |
| 14th | Rickard Kendrick | 4 points | 72lb 3oz |
| 15th | Chloe Raynor | 4 points | 60lb 12oz |
| 16th | Reece Thornton | 4 points | 53lb 4oz |
| 17th | Elliott Fay | 3 points | 53lb 10oz |
| 18th | Bradley Shaw | 3 points | 31lb 4oz |
| 19th | Kieran Shuttleworth | 3 points | 29lb 12oz |
Well what a cracking festival for the youngsters and we’ve seen great weights from all of the anglers. The weather has made a great change this year as usually the anglers are battered by all elements. With perfect section results for two anglers the result for the festival goes down to weight and with a 50lb advantage this years title goes to Jake Gallagher, Jake has had an awesome festival and show great promise for the future.
Our festival sponsors have been amazing this year and with the freebies from Coca Cola & their £500 sponsorship, the goodie bags from Drennan International and the overall prizes they supplied as well as the entrance fees all going into the prize fund the anglers have walked away with a massive haul of goodies. Drennan Iternational provided goodie bags for all the entrants and the top ten anglers all received prizes.
Many thanks once again to our sponsors Drennan International & Coca Cola and thank you to all of the entrants who fished the festival.
Apologies if I have missed anyone’s catch information but I have used all the ones that were handed back to me, if you still have yours please email the details and I will include it in the report.
Many Thanks, Kirsty
