Full results from Weymouth Pairs Species Charter Boat Open Sponsored by Snowbee and The Sailor's Return
Firstly a huge thank you to all anglers fishing the Pairs Species Open last week and for making it a fantastic two days. With 23 teams enjoying some great fishing and beautiful October weather. The competition is a memorial to our good friend Chris Caines, who we think of always. Plus thank you to our sponsors Snowbee and the Sailors Return.
It was a keenly fought event with the leader board changing all the time, but here are the final full results:
| PAIRS SPECIES 2017 | Total | |||
| Position | Team | Scores | Score/Points | Fish |
| 1 |
Northern Sole Kev Preston & Jon Law |
37(15), 40(4) | 77 | 19 |
| 1 |
Nobby's Nuts Andy Collings & Kev Clark |
42(18), 35(1) | 77 | 19 |
| 3 |
Team Idiot Ray Barron & Mike Webber |
37(13), 40(2) | 77 | 15 |
| 4 |
Team Christchurch Colin Searles & Steve Batchelor |
40(14) 36(2) | 76 | 16 |
| 5 |
Plenty in the Tank Boys Rod Adamson & John Traynor |
30(12), 44(55) | 74 | 17 |
| 6 |
Norfolk in Chance Paul Roper & Gary Dennis |
39(15), 34(3) | 73 | 18 |
| 7 |
Duff Duffers Daz Rose & Micky Duff |
34(14), 39(4) | 73 | 18 |
| 8 |
Team Lagoon Dicky Leggett & Brett Lomas |
33(13), 40(3) | 73 | 16 |
| 9 |
Seatoyniceturbots Alan Painter & Lyle Stantiford |
34(14), 34(5) | 68 | 19 |
| 10 |
Team Lonis Paul Hollyoake & Ed Taylor |
31(13), 36(5) | 67 | 18 |
| 11 |
The Odd Couple Robin Amor & Billy Short |
33(13), 34(2) | 67 | 15 |
| 12 |
Grumpy Gurnards Mike Patten & Ian McLean |
33(13), 33(4) | 66 | 17 |
| 13 |
Team WAC Andy Selby & Perry Dack |
25(11), 40(6) | 65 | 17 |
| 14 |
Wasted Seaman Gary Geoghegan & John Bellamy |
29(13), 35(5) | 64 | 18 |
| 15 |
Flying Fish Matt Wilcock & James Mayor |
26(14), 37(3) | 63 | 17 |
| 16 |
North and South Alan Bird & Ken Moore |
33(15), 30(1) | 63 | 16 |
| 17 |
Every Rose has Its's Owen Scott Rennie Darren Paul |
31(13),31(3) | 62 | 16 |
| 18 |
Spencers are Back Steve Spencers & Hayden Spencer |
35(15), 26(1) | 61 | 16 |
| 19 |
Decorators Malc Stote & Brian Dawkins |
29(13), 29(3) | 58 | 16 |
| 20 |
Lymington Tangle Twins Robin Lane & Vernon Everitt |
30(14),27(4) | 57 | 18 |
| 21 |
Vino Collapso Raiders Kev Lewis & Duncan Beck |
25(13), 26(4) | 51 | 17 |
| 22 |
Come from Behind Jim Pressley & Glen Milligan |
22(10),26(5) | 48 | 15 |
| 23 |
Losers John O'Leary & Tony Sherwood |
21(9),25(5) | 46 | 14 |
Joint winners this year were: Northern Sole - Kev Preston & Jon Law, Nobby' s Nuts - Andy Collings & Kev Clark. Both Teams scored 77pts and had 19 species. Well done chaps on brilliant win. There is no stopping Jon Law who four weeks ago won the Weymouth International Boat Angling Challenge 2017 .
Third Place was: Team Idiot - Ray Barron & Mike Webber 77pts and 15 species .
Best Specimen joint winners on 90% of specimen record
1st Kev Lewis - Red Gurnard 1lb 2 oz
1st Alan Painter - Garfish 1lb 2oz
3rd John Oleary 86.6% Udulate 12lb 2oz
Most Species (3 way tie) 19 species :
Northern Sole - Kev Preston & Jon Law
Nobby's Nuts - Andy Collings & Kev Clark
Seayouniceturbot - Lyle Stantiford & Alan Painter
Top Boat Al’s Spirit run by Ade Brown
Thanks again to all anglers fishing the event for making it a fantastic two days, next years event is on the 1st & 2nd November 2018.
