Round 1 of the Drennan Coors Trent Masters saw the river still carrying extra water from the previous week’s floods and was always going to be tricky, but stick float and waggler tactics still dominated.

Coors AC member Steve Hardwidge drew peg 23,  just below the island on the Bailey’s section, and fished mostly stick float with bronze maggots. He included 6lb of small chub in his 12lb 6oz winning catch.

Runner-up on peg 15 on Municipal was Harvey Clapham who is a regular winner at Burton. Starting on the stick float was slow but a switch to waggler and bronze maggot in the steadier water brought a steady stream of chunky roach for 10lb 10oz. Third was Robbie Quinn who also fished a stick float for 10lb 6oz of roach from peg 1 on Bailey’s.

Result:

• 1 S Hardwidge (Coors AC) 12lb 6oz
• 2 H Clapham (Coors AC) 10lb 10oz
• 3 R Quinn (Shakespeare) 10lb 6oz
• 4 R Winfield (Sensas) 8lb 4oz
• =5 W Swinscoe (Drennan Bait-Tech) 7lb 4oz
• =5 P Bick (Shakespeare) 7lb 4oz