It has been a very wet winter, with the rain starting back in September. But March had been fairly dry and for the final match of the 2024-25 season we used the club’s own Horseshoe Lake. It would be “Silvers” only for this match and twelve anglers (eleven on time) met in the car park under bright blue skies but with a breezy north westerly pushing across the lake.
Today was the fifth and final round of the Deeping Individual League series (DILS). Over the winter months anglers fish five rounds and get to take their best points total from four results. Alan Thomas was leading the way into this final round with Steve Borrett and Jason Chatham the only two anglers that could catch him.
Also today, the club’s much coveted “Non Cup Winners Cup” was up for grabs. Awarded to the highest placed angler that had not already won silverware this season.
Final placings in other competitions were also confirmed, with Jason Chatham taking the 2024-25 Club Champion position with a gap of 22 points from Pete Wray in second place. The club champion points are accumulated over 12 rounds through the summer and winter matches.
Also, the Billing Challenge Cup for a second year was won by Nathan Grech. Nathan fished only summer matches, but still managed to finish 19lbs ahead of Pete Wary. The Billing Challenge cup takes an angler’s top 3 summer weights and adds them to their top 3 winter weights.
Back to the result and Alan Thomas kept up his top winter form by taking his third win. This gave him maximum points and a clear 6 point gap over Steve Borrett in second place. Alan finished with 7lb 11 oz from peg number 5. Fishing at 11m on the pole, with double red maggot over ground bait, he found 2 nice Skimmers. Adding some Roach from his 5m line on pinkie.
Second place on the day, but a new name on the “Non Cup Winners Cup” was Stephen Smith. Stephen took 4lb 11oz from peg number 35. Stephen fished single pinkie on the top 2 for Roach, with his second line at 10m where he caught his single bream over ground bait.
Third place was tied with Mick Wright and Steve Borrett both catching 3lb 12oz next to each other on pegs 16 & 18. Steve caught his single bream on the ground bait feeder but both anglers fished most of the match on a 4m whip line.
Section Wins for Lindsay Horsman and Jason Chatham
Full Result
1st Alan Thomas 7 lbs 11 oz – Peg # 5
2nd Stephen Smith 4 lbs 11 oz – Peg # 35
=3rd Mick Wright 3 lbs 12 oz – Peg # 16
=3rd Steve Borrett 3 lbs 12 oz – Peg # 18
=5th Lyndsay Horsman 3 lbs 6 oz – Peg # 10
=5th Jason Chatham 3 lbs 6 oz – Peg # 31
7th Antony Johnson 3 lbs 1 oz – Peg # 29
8th Paul Dotchin 2 lbs 10 oz – Peg # 12
9th Trevor Walker 2 lbs 7 oz – Peg # 33
10th Alfie Kendall 1 lbs 13 oz – Peg # 14
11th Neil Speechley 0 lbs 1 oz – Peg # 23
12th Ian Benton 0 lbs 0 oz – Peg # 27
DILS Final Standings
