The Angling Trust reports: A dark and dismal start to today’s Qualifier at Ellerdine with the weather changing drastically after lunch. We caught up with the Match Organiser and AT TEFF Bank Manager, Lee Cartmail, who explained it fished as expected. With several competition regulars getting among fish from most pegs and with Gareth Tilley on eleven fish, Jake Wenman and Stephen Pattinson on six, and one of today’s lady anglers, Joan Russell, with a brace and therefore in contention.
We’ve two more peg changes to go in this afternoon’s match and the conditions are perfect for applying many methods. It will be really interesting to see who masters the rest of the Qualifier, locating and landing enough to see them back here for the final in 5th May 2024.

The Angling Trust reports: It’s all over until the next date now and our anglers have fished as hard as possible with lots happening in the final few sessions.
There were plenty of opportunities as fish began to show higher in the water, even topping and giving away their exact position and direction of travel.

The Angling Trust reports: That dark and dismal start to yesterday’s Qualifier at Ellerdine, soon changed up as the sun broke through and the wind dropped. The sky then cast over again, wind increased too, then begin swirling towards the lodge end of Meadow Lake, for the rest of the afternoon, the weather settled in as very changeable.
Our competitors change peg location eight times during the match, each time they did not only was it a different area they fished, but different conditions too.
Match Organiser for the weekend and AT TEFF Bank Manager Lee Cartmail, noted that Ellerdine had fished perfectly for the Qualifier. With the top spot anglers finding fish on the majority of pegs and the majority of the field having some form of action from peg changes too. Especially in the afternoon, as various competitors leap-frogged around each other on the points table.
The fishing was close too regarding results, our top two rods on twelve fish each, so sorting on points. As was the final qualifying spot, with four anglers all on four fish and counting points back, to announce the final positions.
The final results read: 1st Jake Wenman, 2nd Gareth Tilley, 3rd Robbie Dodds, 4th Steve Pattinson and 5th Bruce Blackshaw, all five will be invited to join the winners from last month’s Qualifier at Blackdyke Trout Fishery to the Final back here at Ellerdine on 5th of May 2024.