Dismiss the pole at your peril if you are looking to succeed at the Evesham Bank Holiday Festival.
The three-day festival on the Warwickshire Avon at Evesham over the August Bank Holiday weekend is one of the biggest events on the match angling calendar. The festival has been running for 38 years, and comprises three separate competitions: the 70-peg Dynamite Baits Individual Championship on the Saturday; the Wychavon Championship, again a 70-peg event, on the Sunday and the Match Fishing Team Championship, which features 14 teams of five competing for the converted trophy on the Monday.
The format of the events sees some of the country’s top stars fishing alongside the winners of a number of qualifying matches, and in the case of the Wychavon Championship, local club champions, so when it comes to the individual days there is an eclectic mix of talents on show to the visiting public.
TACTICS
There’s an impressive prize fund of almost £18,000, with the winners of the individual events picking up £3,000 for the Dynamite event and £2,500 for the Wychavon, so it’s important that the competitors get their tactics right on the Saturday and Sunday if they want to walk away with top honours.
For a percentage of them that will mean targeting big fish, such as barbel, bream, big perch and eels. This requires them to sit it out on the tip for a few bites, in the hope that a big fish comes along. If they are lucky enough to draw opposite the tributary mouth of the River Isbourne (Peg 35), then it would hopefully be chub on the waggler.
This story is from the November 2017 edition of Pole Fishing.
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