Butler bags £1,000 payday at Rookery

Rookery Waters £1,000 Summer Final
Jay & Magpie Lakes (56 pegs)

After 33 qualifying rounds, anglers arrived at Rookery with £1,000 up for grabs to the winner.
That big-money prize went to Boston rod Gavin Butler, the Tackle & Bates man recording two section wins and totalling 251-8-0 to relegate Jimmy Brooks into second as he put together 199-0-0 across the weekend after also scoring two points.
Gavin started on Jay Lake peg 30 with 64-12-0 of carp to 5lb on long pole and pellet to win his section and the lake, before changing to the Magpie Lake on Day 2.
That saw him on peg 7, and pellet shallow at 16m and down the edge produced 186-10-0 of carp to again win the section and the lake!
Magpie Lake Day 1 result: 1 M Freeman, Decoy, 204-10-0; 2 T Edwards, Dynamite Baits/Maver Image, 150-2-0;
3 B Mason, Guru/Bag’em Baits, 130-8-0.
Jay Lake Day 1 result: 1 G Butler, Tackle & Bates, 64-12-0;
2 T Evans, Dynamite Baits, 47-4-0; 3 J Brooks, Middy/Bait-Tech, 46-10-0.
Magpie Lake Day 2 result: 1 G Butler, Tackle & Bates, 186-10-0; 2 J Brooks, Middy/Bait-Tech, 152-4-0;
3 S Bracey, Shimano/Dynamite Baits, 114-6-0.
Jay Lake Day 2 result: 1 M Pollard, Shimano/Stanjay Sports, 104-10-0; 2 T Edwards, Dynamite Baits/Maver Image, 85-10-0; 3 S Higginbottom, Tackle & Bates, 83-12-0.
Overall: 1 G Butler, Tackle & Bates, 2pts (251-8-0);
2 J Brooks, Middy/Bait-Tech, 2 (199-0-0); 3 T Edwards, Dynamite Baits/Maver Image, 3 (235-12-0); 4 M Pollard, Shimano/Stanjay Sports, 3 (222-8-0); jt5 S Higginbottom, Tackle & Bates and G Welton, Garbolino RAF, both 3 (both 203-4-0).