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Youth Teach-in Christmas Match Result

10 Anglers from the youth Teach-in sessions braved the weather on the 29th of November.

Our thanks go to Costco for donating the Major prizes and to Gone Fishin for the goody bags that every angler received.

Pictured below is Neil Richardson from Costco with MKAA's Nuala Gray and the prize winner.

Under 12's winner Jack Salisbury	Under 16's winner Jack Moroney

Youth Match Team

It was lousy weather all day and the last hour was almost impossible to fish as the rain was so heavy, in a match which was going to depend on big fish it ended being a squat match, but James did manage to find some skimmers and finished with over 5 kg beating some very good anglers in his section including Alan Scotthorne`s son Oliver two pegs away.

Juniors
1st   Maver Farnborough Gold    18pts
2nd  Tameside Fox Match Red   20pts
3rd   Maver Farnborough Blue    26pts
11th Milton Keynes A.A.              42pts


Intermediates

1st   Maver Farnborough Blue   14pts
2nd Tameside Fox Match Red   19pts
3rd  Barnsley Intermediates        21pts
11th Milton Keynes A.A.             30pts

Intermediate Individual

1st   James Drakulic Milton Keynes A.A.   5.63 KGS
2nd  John Gaylard Peatmoor Red             3.84 KGS
3rd  Chris Kelly Suffolk County                 3.36 KGS

Photo is of James Drakulic

On Sunday 13th July the youth teams fished the British Waterways Southern Junior Championship held on the Grand Union canal at Kings Langley.

A total of nine teams took part including two teams from the top club Farnborough.

We also entered a team from Nuala Gray`s teach-in sessions.

All those taking part for Milton Keynes said that they had enjoyed their day; the weather was good, but not for fishing it was bright and sunny with clear water.

This venue has the promise of big fish being caught, however, it ended up being a squat fish match with  low weights.

Milton Keynes A team member James Drakulic found five chub swimming in his swim but after one hour fishing for them he turned his attention to the small fish.  He had a great session but was unfortunately beaten into second place overall by only one ounce.

The team overall had a great match with MK Team A winning by one point.

1st Milton Keynes A 33pts

2nd Farnborough A 32pts

3rd Farnborough B 30pts

5th Milton Keynes B 21pts

8th Milton Keynes C 11pts

This is the fourth year in a row Milton Keynes have won this match.

Individual result

1st Jake Galleghan Farnborough B 2-11-0

2nd James Drakulic Milton Keynes A 2-10-0

3rd Will Buckley Farnborough A 2-6-0

John Ellis was on hand to present the awards, every angler received a goody bag.  The angler with the highest weight in each team was presented with a reel.  John also picked out two up and coming young anglers to receive a rod each; Jack Harvey of Milton Keynes C was one of the lucky ones and received one of the rods go with his reel.

Well done everyone!!

Saturday 21st June saw the first of two matches we are holding open to local young match anglers to come along and join us, hopefully on a long term basis.  The results of both matches will be combined and there will be trophies for the winners and runner-ups in two age groups, these trophies have been sponsored by Brian Haynes of Milton Keynes Angling Centre, there is a large trophy to fish for each year and also a trophy for each winner to keep.

The first match was on Teardrops 1, even though it rained most of the match the fishing was good and enjoyable and under the guidance of Steve Drakulic they all caught well, the winning weights contained bream of two pounds but there was plenty of small fish to be had, these were mostly rudd and perch the roach do not seem to be showing in numbers yet.

Result

16yrs - 19yrs

1st    Ben Hough 9-1-0 (small skimmers, roach and perch)

2nd   James Drakulic 7-13-0 (mainly small rudd in the 2-3 oz size)

3rd    Adam Billingham 3-2-0 (bream and some small fish)

12yrs - 15yrs

1st    Jack Leeman 6-9-0 ( 2 bream, personal best 3lb 6ozs, small fish)

2nd   Josh Balodis 5-4-0 ( skimmers and mixed small fish)

3rd    Tom Addison 3-15-0 ( skimmers and mixed small fish)

The second match is this coming Saturday June 28th on Lodge Lake, draw at 9 a.m. in the main car park fishing 10-00 - 15-00 in the paddock section.

Jack Leeman, the 12yrs-15yrs winner with his catch

Willow Park Fishery

On Saturday 17th May the Milton Keynes Youth Team travelled to Willow Park fishery for the U.K. Youth Pole Championships.  We entered two teams with a total of seven teams in total being entered.  Unfortunately as in the previous match the weather turned a few days before and so weights were not as high has expected.

The match was spread over two lakes with two members from each team on each lake. Two of our lads drew favoured pegs but the pegs did not produce like they usually do and our best result came of an un-favoured peg fished by James Drakulic, who with 45lbs not only won his section, his lake but also give him 4th individual place overall.

A mixture of species were caught, however, it was carp that made the difference, the largest fish (12lb 2oz) was caught by one of our new team members Luke Hurst. We also welcomed Josh Balodis to the team. If you would like to join the team then have a look at the youth match page in the information section.

Top picture showing the team.  Lower left is George Hale and lower right is James Drakulic.

 Full result below

TEAMS

1st Farnborough Blue               9pts
2nd Farnborough Pink            11pts
3rd Farnborough Gold            12pts
4th Milton Keynes White         18pts
5th Milton Keynes Blue           20pts

7 teams entered

INDIVIDUALS

1st     Bradley Proctor Farnborough Blue               55-08-0
2nd   Jake Marshall Farnborough Pink                  53-12-0
3rd    Alex Clements Farnborough Gold                48-02-0
4th    James Drakulic Milton Keynes White          45-05-0
  
Results were:-

Milton Keynes White

Name                                  Section place

James Drakulic                      1st
Thomas Moretti                       5th
Josh Balodis                           7th
Ben Hough                              5th

Milton Keynes Blue

Name                                  Section place

Luke Hurst                                4th
Adam Billingham                     6th
Jack Jones                                6th
George Hale                             4th

Down in Swindon

On Bank Holiday Monday 5th May 2008 the youth team competed in the Millennium Trophy on Peatmoor Lagoon in Swindon. Our thanks go to our hosts the Three Counties Club for all their efforts.

It was a wet start to the day but by mid morning the sun was out and it turned out a great day. Unfortunately by then the fishing had been hit hard by the over night rain. As a result of this rain weights were low and some went without a fish.

This left our team, like all the others, scratching for a few roach and perch.

Best result for our team was James Drakulic who won his section and was 5th overall. Adam Billingham was 2nd in his section and Jack Jones was 5th in his section. Our youngest and newest member Thomas Moretti, like a few more in his section failed to catch.

Farnborough the best team in the country dominated the team result. See below for the full results.

If you would like to join the team then see the Youth Match Page in the information section.

Top picture showing the team (left to right) Thomas Moretti, Adam Billingham, Jack Jones and James Drakulic


Teams
1st Farnborough Pink 35pts
2nd Farnborough Gold 28pts
3rd Peatmoor Blue 23pts
6th Milton Keynes A.A. 17pts

Nine teams took part

Individuals

1st James Marshall Farnborough Pink 10-15-08
2nd Will Buckle Farnborough Gold 10-02-00
3rd Kieran Hands Peatmoor Blue 8-04-00
5th James Drakulic Milton Keynes A.A. 5-14-08

Pictures from MKAA Anglers