The Dutch King of Clubs competition was held last week at Connolly’s and Church Shore on Garadice Lake, the Rocks at Lough Scur, and the Woodford River at Derrycassan last week.

The fishing was not as good as hoped for as the venues were perhaps still a bit behind following the unusual weather the country has experienced this spring.

In general the fishing was as follows:

  • Connolly’s, Garadice; there were roach, hybrids and a lot of good size perch.
  • The Deeps, Garadice; roach, hybrid and perch.
  • The Rocks lough Scur;  small roach, many of the with some hybrid, roach and small bream.
  • Derrycasan; a lot of roach and hybrid, some perch.

Not many anglers got into double figures in a single day but  Michel Diepstraten deserves special mention for his impressive catch of 17.610kg on Day 3. Unfortunately for Michel the scoring is based on a points system, where the final score is based on the best 3 days of the 4 days fished (the worst result is dropped).

Jan Willem Plekkenpol
Jan Willem Plekkenpol

So in the end it was  Jan Willem Plekkenpol who won the tournament with a total of 5 points and 16.680 kg.

1
Plekkenpol, Jan Willem
5 points
16.680kg
2
Multem, André
6 points
20.840kg
3
Oven van, Ronald
6 points
14.320kg
4
Kivits, Raymond
6 points
13.870kg
5
Munro, Lee
7 points
18.280kg
1st Jan Willem Plekkenpol, 2nd André Multem, 3rd Ronald van Oven
1st Jan Willem Plekkenpol, 2nd André Multem, 3rd Ronald van Oven

 

Overall results over 4 days

1
Plekkenpol, Jan Willem
9 points
22.900kg
2
Oven van, Ronald
11 points
16.500kg
3
Kroes, Martijn
12 points
20.770kg
4
Kivits, Raymond
12 points
15.060kg
5
Multem, André
13 points
24.480kg
6
Costerus, Peter
13 points
15.990kg
7
Munro, Lee
14 points
18.540kg
8
Gruys, Jeroen
14 points
13.720kg
9
Golstein, Sipke
14 points
12.860kg
10
Lieshout van, Peter
15 points
22.740kg

Day 1 top 5

1
14
D
8
Janssen , Giovanni
1
8.900
2
18
B
8
Lieshout van, Peter
1
6.300
3
15
A
1
Kivits, Raymond
1
6.200
4
29
C
8
Venne van der, Pascal
1
4.040
5
13
B
1
Jansen, Jos
2
5.750

Day 2 top 5

1
C
8
Marico, Martin
1
7.020
2
A
2
Versteeg, Otto
1
5.580
3
B
7
Golstein, Sipke
1
4.940
4
D
5
Plekkenpol, Jan Willem
1
3.860
5
C
9
Multem, André
2
6.750

Day 3 top5

1
D
9
Diepstraten, Michel
1
17.610
2
A
8
McGoldrick, Francis
1
9.800
3
B
2
Munro, Lee
1
8.240
4
C
2
Oven van, Ronald
1
4.150
5
A
2
Kroes, Martijn
2
7.900

Day 4 top 5

1
B
2
Zekveld, Jan
1
9.500
2
A
3
Multem, André
1
9.440
3
C
7
Munro, Lee
1
6.840
4
D
2
Golstein, Sipke
1
5.690
5
B
6
Plekkenpol, Jan Willem
2
9.120