Ahead of the 2022 Cazoo FishOMania at Westwood Lakes, this Saturday, 23 July. We profile all 25 anglers and tell you a little about them.
Name – Art Hilmi
- Age – 42
- Place you first went fishing – River Hull
- Favourite place to go fishing – Partridge Lakes
- What would you do with the £50,000 if you won? – Split with John Alexander (also in final)
- Favourite method – Shallow fishing
- First FishO memory whether from competing or watching – Neil Machin Winning at Hayfield
- Bank Runner name – Harry O’Sullivan
- FishO Stat – Debut
Name – Charlie Law – Junior and Youth Champion
- Nickname if you have one – Claw
- Age – 18
- Place you first went fishing – Loch Ken
- Favourite place to go fishing – Bradshaw Hall fisheries
- What would you do with the £50,000 if you won? – Buy a van for fishing and save the rest
- Favourite method – Castor shallow
- Bank Runner name – Johnny Jowett
- FishO Stat – Debut
Name – Danny Keennan
- Age – 47
- Place you first went fishing – Started fishing Greenbooth reservoir Rochdale when I was about 12, then started club fishing around 18 at Whitworth valley and Todmorden angling then moved on to the opens not long after that.
- Favourite place to fish – Bradshaw’s hall fishery and partridge lakes
- What would you do with the £50,000 if you won? – I’d treat a few people then buy some beer
- Favourite method – Commercials
- First FishO memory whether from competing or watching – I remember going to hayfield on the minibus one year with the lads and drew Nathan Watson in the sweep so I put a tenner on him and won the sweep as well when he won it.
- Bank Runner name – Ben Summerscales
- FishO Stat – Debut
Name – Dave Shires
- Nickname if you have one – Shiresy
- Age – 43
- Place you first went fishing – Small lake with family on holiday in Lowestoft age 10, caught a perch and an eel!
- Favourite place to go fishing – Lindholme
- What would you do with the £50,000 if you won? – take the family on holiday and a new pole!
- Favourite method – Pole fishing for f1’s.
- First FishO memory whether from competing or watching – watching Will Raison catching down the edge on worms and casters maybe 20 years ago on little adams lake. Steve Cooke and Steve Ringer winning their first finals.
- Bank Runner name – Ryan Lidgard
- FishO Stat – Second final, last final 2018 finished 6th overall, Pete Black won that year.
Name – Felix Scheuermann (INTERNATIONAL QUALIFIER GERMANY)
- Age – 29 years old
- Place you first went fishing – On a local quarry pond with the age of 6
- Favourite place to fish – Eixendorfer reservoir (in Bavaria, Germany)
- What would you do with the £50,000 if you won? Buy an apartment and a nice holidays
- Favourite method? Feeder fishing on natural waters (world champion in feeder fishing in 2018)
- First FishO memory – The great reports and live weigh-ins during the match, watching on Sky Sports many years ago
- Bank Runner name – Adam Wakelin
- FishO Stat – Debut
