A match at a top commercial fishery has sent shockwaves through the sport after the winner bagged a colossal haul of over 1,000lb in just six hours of action.
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Dorset’s Todber Manor Fisheries has been in blistering form in recent weeks and things stepped up to previously unseen levels during the latest event when Greg Welsby came out on top with a mind-blowing 1081lb of carp.
Drawn on peg 48 of the prolific Hill View Lake, he worked with short range pole tactics and maggots to keep carp coming at a fast and furious pace, using over 20 keepnets in the process to adhere to strict limits. The weight would have almost certainly been more had he not had to stop 40-minutes from the end because he had run out of keepnets.
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The match was part of a four-day Corps Champs at the complex and the quadruple figure haul wasn’t the only mammoth catch that Greg recorded as he strolled his way to the overall victory.
Day one saw him win the match with 488lb before he stepped things up a gear to bag a second table topping performance with 718lb. He made it a hat-trick of wins on day three with 749lb before he finished with the best haul of the lot. In total, he weighed in 3036lb over the four days.
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His achievement has set social media alight, with anglers divided with regards to their thoughts on such hectic bagging.
One Facebook user commented: “Sorry to even read about this. Great effort, but in my personal opinion, it’s just killing the sport.”
On the flip side, there was plenty of praise for Greg’s historic haul with another user posting: “To weigh in over 1000lb of fish in a match is an amazing feat – well done. There is definitely a skill involved to catch that much, just as there is in catching 50lb of silvers. Why not enjoy the lad’s feat instead of trying to knock him or the fishery?”
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