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2014 QUALIFIERS UKRAINE, UK & SOUTH AFRICA
UK Event winners.. father and son duo Steve and Louis Leigh with one of their 16 Wraysbury1 carp
Father and son to compete at Bolsena
During the 24th to 27th of July this year, the first ever World Carp Classic UK Qualifying event took place on the famous and historic Wraysbury 1 – recently purchased by RK Leisure. The first prize of £8,000 and the
opportunity to compete at the World Carp Classic here in Bolsena was up for grabs in an extremely hotly contested and close event. In all, there were 56 carp caught during
the competition, with an average weight of 6.06 kg. Three of the original Wraysbury carp contributed to the 339.7kg overall total weight. Event winners, father and son duo Steve Leigh and Louis Leigh enjoyed outstanding success in capturing 16 fish for a winning weight of 106.8kg. The second placed pairing of David Ward and Adam Sharpe banked 10 carp for 73.9kg. The event Sponsored by Dynamite and
Shimano was a great success. The World Carp Classic 2014 at Lago di
Bolsena awaits Steve and Louis, who we wish all the very best.
History in the making at South African event
The South Africa WCC qualifier took place in June this year at Tzaneen Dam at the town called Tzaneen. This year we we made history in the fact that we had our first black angler team that qualified for the final by the name of Alfred letwaba. Foto attach. The event produced quite nice fish and was
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won by Zane Schlemmer and his wife with a total of weight of 86.06kg. The competition was very close the last two days as the top four peg positions changed at least three times. The heaviest carp caught was 16.21kg caught by Toy Nienaber. South Africa will be represented by three pegs; Peg 1 Kobus Lottering, Charles Horlick and Edwin Theron. Peg 2; Zane Schelemmer, Anel Schlemmer and Laythen Very and Peg 3, Johan Conradie, Devin Hansema and Adam Swannepoel.
Top..Winners of the last South Africa Qualifying event and above, Team Tribal on their way to Bolsena! Team Tribal take the Ukrainian title
The first Shimano-Dynamite Baits Prilbychi Open Cup took place in July this year at Lake Prilbychi, in the Lviv region of Ukraine to determine the team that will compete at the The World Carp Classic 2014. Twenty-two teams of top Ukrainian and foreign
carp anglers (Slovakia and Belarus champions) competed for over 96 hours against each other. “Tribal Team” finished first, with a total catch of
453.20kg (999lb) consisting of 81 fish. Second was “Hata Rybaka” - 394.07kg (869lb) with 87 fish and third place was Team “Students” with 262.69kg
(580lb) and 44 fish. Team “Parovoz” caught the biggest fish, a carp weighing 14.83kg (32lb. 10oz.) The total catch for the entire tournament was 733 fish weighing 3755.04kg (8278lb. 5oz). Sixteen teams beat the 100kg barrier and eight
teams caught more than 200kg of carp and grass carp. The average weight was 5.12 kg (11lb. 5oz.). One of the innovations of this tournament
was the individual sponsorship of each zone. The sponsor provided expensive prizes to the three best teams in their zone, along with cups and medals for the top three teams overall.
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