Kayleigh Dowd made it a hat-trick of Angling Trust Ladies National wins on Saturday as the Leeds-based 32-year-old won 2023’s event with a massive 123-775 net of carp and F1s.
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Lining up against 34 other ladies at Fenland fishery Rookery Waters, Preston Innovations-backed England international Kayleigh enjoyed bites from start to finish at peg 36 on the Magpie Lake, to end the day a little under 11 kilos clear of Maver star Sarah Taylor’s 112-925, Chloe Raynor completing the top three with 108-725.
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Victory follows up Kayleigh’s wins in the event in 2014 and 2016, and came about using simple shallow tactics with a fixed float and jigga for casters and pellets up against the large lily beds in the peg.
It also earns her a place in the Fish O’Mania Final on July 22 at Westwood Lakes, where she’ll do battle for the £50,000 prize. Having won two of the Ladies Fish O' events in the past and with a fine match pedigree both for the England Ladies Float and Carp teams, she’ll be one to watch!
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