Alex Murray became the first ever Skol Masters Champion in the most dramatic of finishes at White Acres Country Park to claim the £ 20,000 winner take all prize in the 12-angler final.
Alex’s method of bagging was on a groundbait feeder packed with Sillybait and baiting single or double white maggot on the hook from peg 1.
Heavy overnight rain failed to dampen the finalists enthusiasm and it developed into a three angler race for the big cheque as Alex, Grant Albutt and Lee Woodhouse fought fish for fish using three differing methods.
Post match, Whiteacres resident pro angler, Clint Elliot, was delighted with the way the week long festival fished. Top individual leading up to the £ 20,000 winner-takes-all final was Starlets Grant Albutt.
Grant had emphatically stamped his authority on the five day Skol Masters Festival to claim the first of the 12 precious final fish-off places. The 30-year-old grabbed the £ 2000 winners cheque in style, setting a new Whiteacres match record on the final day with 187-12-0 of carp from Pollawyn peg 27, beating his own old record of 177 lb.
Winning lakes at Gwinear and Porth adding a fourth section win set him up for a clear win in the 177 angler festival with a maximum 36 points.
RESULTS
| 1 | Alex Murray(Team Sillybait) | 28lb 4oz |
| 2 | Grant Albutt (MAP Garbolino Starlets) | 26lb 10oz |
| 3 | Lee Woodhouse (Carbotec Select) | 26lb 7oz |
| 4 | Kian Wardle (MAP Garbolino Starlets) | 14lb 15oz |
| 5 | Tommy Pickering (Daiwa) | 13lb 6oz |
| 6 | Neil McKinnon (Shakespeare) | 12lb 3oz |
| 7 | John Bowers (Keenets North West) | 5lb 3oz |
| 8 | Steve Clarke (Daiwa Trentmen) | 3lb 10oz |
| 9 | Vic Bush (Thatchers 2000) | 2lb 8oz |
| 10 | Dave Merritt (Bill Knott Bookies) | 2lb 7oz |
| 11 | Steve Sanders (Dawia Dorking) | 2lb |
| 12 | Steve Cooke (Ashima Worksop) |
