 | Pete Black, 21, became the youngest ever winner of the Fish’O’Mania title as celebrated the event’s return to Hayfield Lakes with a commanding performance, winning with a total of 51.35kg, over 12 kilos ahead of his nearest rival. |
Hailing from King’s Norton, Black works at Foster’s, a Birmingham tackle shop and he will be sure to receive a hero’s welcome when he returns to work on Monday. Fourth after the first weigh in, Black stormed into the lead in the second 30 mins with a big bag and it was a position he maintained throughout the match. He was challenged at times but kept the fish flowing sufficiently to land the £50,000 prize.
He said, “You have to be confident when you’re fishing for a mega amount of money, you can’t sit down on your peg and think, oh I’ve drawn next to so and so and they will beat me.
“It is a dream to win Fish‘O’Mania. I have been putting in a lot of hard work in the last few weeks and it has paid off. Mid-match I lost my way a bit – I went on the waggler and only really caught a few.
“I said to Adam (his bank runner), if I’m going to win this I am going to carry on catch on the pole and I stayed on that then for the rest of the match.
“You have to keep your head, it’s a fishing match at the end of the day. Everybody here is good enough to win so you have to just enjoy the day.
“I will enjoy quite a bit of the money and probably look at buying a house.”
In front of a huge crowd, estimated to be around 6,000, second place and a cheque for £10,000 went to Andy Power, repeating his feat of 2017.
He said, “You have to be confident when you’re fishing for a mega amount of money, you can’t sit down on your peg and think, oh I’ve drawn next to so and so and they will beat me.
“It is a dream to win Fish‘O’Mania. I have been putting in a lot of hard work in the last few weeks and it has paid off. Mid-match I lost my way a bit – I went on the waggler and only really caught a few.
“I said to Adam (his bank runner), if I’m going to win this I am going to carry on catch on the pole and I stayed on that then for the rest of the match.
“You have to keep your head, it’s a fishing match at the end of the day. Everybody here is good enough to win so you have to just enjoy the day.
“I will enjoy quite a bit of the money and probably look at buying a house.”
In front of a huge crowd, estimated to be around 6,000, second place and a cheque for £10,000 went to Andy Power, repeating his feat of 2017.
| COMPETITORS Peter Black Andy Power Steve Ford Scott Gollings Steve Openshaw Dave Shires Jason Brown Oliver Scotthorne Ryan Lidgard Richie Hull Jamie Hughes Adam Major Kristof de Busser Shaun Cooke Adam Richards Markus Billen Russell Berryman Dave Romain Andrew Dargue Andrew Bailey Dale Whelan Nathan Watson Dan Squire Franek Staniuszko | PEG 7 22 6 10 5 24 19 8 23 9 21 14 15 4 18 2 17 1 11 3 20 12 16 13 | TOTAL kg 51.350 39.225 36.925 31.150 28.750 24.100 20.675 17.725 16.825 15.225 14.400 13.925 13.875 13.300 12.200 10.800 10.400 8.400 8.050 7.650 6.425 5.850 2.975 1.025 |
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