{"id":7357,"date":"2025-07-26T08:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T07:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=7357"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:23:30","slug":"back-in-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=7357","title":{"rendered":"Back In The Final"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UPDATE: Just uploaded a LIVE MATCH showing how I won, exclusive to Channel Members! <\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Made the long drive up to the Tidal Trent yesterday for the Riverfest qualifier. Really happy to pull out peg 20 at Torksey, a peg away from where I was last time and felt much more confident in what I needed to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tide topped as we set up and was running off all day, dropping several feet by the end. Everyone I could see was into fish from the off and it was amazing fishing for two hours. I was on course for a big weight, but halfway through the fish switched off and you could hear everyone saying the same thing as we went from a bite-a-chuck to nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I worked my way out and managed to keep putting an odd fish in the net. It was mostly silver bream early, then a few small skimmers and even had a bonus big roach getting on for a pound. Fabulous fishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My 26lb 6oz was enough to win the zone and the match, so I\u2019m back in the Riverfest Final for a third successive year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I set up two identical Matrix Horizon Distance 12ft rods with 8lb XD Mono on HX Pro 4000 reels. Feeders were 1.5oz to start but by the end I was on 3oz as it ripped through. For feed I\u2019ve used Sonubaits 50:50 Method & Paste Green, Sweet Skimmer, and a bit of brown crumb and So Natural Crushed Hemp. Caught best on worm when it was solid, but had to really mess about with different hook baits later on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happiness turned to sadness on the long drive home as I had a heart-breaking phone call from an angling friend who wanted to say hello and thanks for a final time. He\u2019s such a nice, generous and positive person who\u2019s been through so much. Hopefully I can see him one more time today\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UPDATE: Just uploaded a LIVE MATCH showing how I won, exclusive to Channel Members! Made the long drive up to the Tidal Trent yesterday for the Riverfest qualifier. Really happy to pull out peg...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feeder-fishing","category-river-trent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7495,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357\/revisions\/7495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}