Good bags of fish were caught throughout the match stretch in the fourth round of the Angling Times Winter League held on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Marl-borough.
Pete Leek of Reading Match Group hooked his first tench at 1pm on caster over chop worm and took another two to weigh in the match-winning weight of 10-10-0.
Darren Wright of Drakes Bait, fishing a similar method, bagged one tench and three bream on double red maggot for a weight of 9-13-8. Just one ounce behind, Paul Senior of Devizes Talisman also found bream, fishing squatt over caster for 9-12-8.
Other individuals were M Jones, also Devizes Talisman, fourth with 8-7-0 and fifth P Sheppard, Drakes Bait with 7-12-8.
It was very tight in the team stakes on the day. Although individually Team Daiwa were not in the top five, it didn't stop them taking away top team honours.
Five of their anglers recorded second in their sections, helping them to a 90.5 point victory over Devizes Talisman, just two points behind on 88.5.
Drakes Bait were right behind with 86 points and, not letting them all run away, Turners Tackle and Bait had 84 points.
n Radcot's Lenny Simpson recorded a fine win in the Wednesday's Veterans Match held this time at Ivy House Lake.
Len beat the 15 angler field with a pole taker 17lb bag which included carp and two good bream.
'Feeder' catches took up the next three weights with Sid Webb just getting second place with 13-3-0 ahead of Tony Menham 12-10-0 and Mick Robins was fourth with 12-9-0 after losing a number of fish.
n Paul Stansfield won the Pewsey AC Teams of four event held on the Kennet and Avon Canal.
Paul won the 120 peg event with 5-13-0 made up of one tench, roach and skimmers taken on a long pole.
Results
Angling Times Winter League:
Sections A: 1st, M Jones, Talisman, 8-7-0; 2nd, G Laidler, Team Daiwa, 6-9-0. B: 1st, A Rickett, Isis, 5-1-0; 2nd, J Morgan, Team Daiwa, 4-7-8. C: 1st, M Avons, Turners, 6-5-0; 2nd C Piercy, Drakes Bait, 4-8-0. D: 1st, D Wright, Drakes Bait, 9-13-8; 2nd, P Senior, Talisman, 9-12-8. E: 1st, C Telling, Talisman, 6-10-0; 2nd, Paul Leek, Reading M/G, 6-8-0. F: 1st, Pete Leek, Reading M/G, 10-10-0; 2nd, J Bone, Team Daiwa, 4-7-0. G: 1st, P Townsend, N Century, 3-15-0; 2nd, D Wilson, Turners, 3-12-0. H: 1st, B Winter, Turners, 7-9-0; 2nd, S Andrews, Drakes Bait, 6-0-0. J: 1st, B Grubb, Drakes Bait, 6-10-0; 2nd, S Trimby, Team Daiwa, 5-0-0. K: 1st, T Jackson, Elgin, 4-0-8; 2nd, S Batsman, Team Daiwa, 3-13-0. L: 1st, P Newman, Royal, 7-4-0; 2nd, D Scott, Cotswold, 5-6-0. M: 1st, P Sheppard, Drakes Bait, 7-12-8; 2nd, B Grillo, Isis, 7-4-0 and G Etheridge, Team Daiwa, 7-4-0.
Position on the day
1st: Team Daiwa, 90.5; 2nd, Devizes Talisman, 88.5; 3rd, Drakes Bait, 86; 4th, Turners T and B, 84; 5th, Reading M/G, 63; 6th, Cotswold Angling, 59; 7th, Elgin, 56.5; 7th, Isis, 56.5; 9th, Swindon Royals, 40; 10th, New Century, 36.
Position on aggregate
1st, Drakes Bait, 328.5; 2nd, Turners T and B, 314; 3rd, Devizes Talisman, 312.5; 4th, Team Daiwa, 283; 5th, Reading M/G, 270; 6th, Cotswold Angling, 256.5; 7th, Elgin, 219.5; 8th, Swindon Isis, 207.5; 9th, New Century, 204.5; 10th, Swindon Royals, 193.
Ivy House Lakes Open:
(Wednesday, Novemb,er 8)
1st, Elick Payne, peg 4, 26-10-0; 2nd, Pete Sole, peg 6, 17-13-0; 3rd, Gary Etheridge, peg 8, 13-0-0.
Ivy House Veterans match:
(Friday, November 10)
1st, Mick Robins, peg 1, 5-8-0; 2nd, Tony Read, peg 12, 4-3-0; 3rd, Barrie Jee, peg 8, 3-8-0.
Ivy House Lakes Open:
(Saturday, November 11)
1st, Elick Payne, peg 7, 40-6-0; 2nd, Ray Russell, peg 1, 16-11-0.
Ivy House:
(Sunday, November 12)
1st, Mo Lowers, peg 47, 7-0-0; 2nd, Alan Clark, peg 49, 5-3-0.
Coleview Rover aggregate match:
(on Kennet and Avon Canal at Limpley Stoke, Sunday, November 12)
1st, Paul Sainsbury, 7-15-0; 2nd, Barry Jenkins, 3-6-0; 3rd, Keith Harris, 2-2-8.
Haydon Street AC Harold Trinder Trophy:
(on Kennet and Avon Canal at Woolfhall)
1st, Roger Giles, 3-4-8; 2nd, Paul Mathews, 2-12-0; 3rd, Mick Rozier, 2-7-8.
Liden Junior AC Dads and Lads, 2nd Leg, Autumn Cup:
1st, James Dixie and dad Andy, 22-0-0; 2nd, Callum Gunning and dad Vince, 20-1-0; 3rd, David Pratt and dad Ian, 10-12-0.
Peatmoor Winter League Juniors:
(fished at Peatmoor Lake)
10-13 years old: 1st, Gareth Jackson, 4-3-0; 2nd, Martin Howard, 2-5-8; 3rd, Mark Kimber, 2-1-8.
14-16 years old: 1st, Danny Black, 1-14-8; 2nd, Danny Gould, 1-5-8; 3rd, Steven Howard, 0-10-8.
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