Sunday's club match, held on the canal at Westleigh was well supported with 28 club members turning out to do battle. After a wet start, the weather cleared nicely to give everyone at least a pleasant, dry day in terms of comfort but the fishing proved much harder for most, particularly along the road sections. The match was split in to 3 sections, one either side of the road gate with the third pegged in the wooded stretch and it was the latter which gave up the top weights on the day.

   Top man on the day from peg 25 in the wood was Mark Branson with 2.560kg. Mark started on the punch at 10m and caught some quality roach from the start. When bites started to ease off he switched to pinkie over crumb with success, but the telling move came when he caught a nice tench using 6mm soft pellet over a bed of micros fished well across. Big congrats Mark on a well deserved win and 10 club points !

   Runner up from 21, also in the wood, was Pete Kingdom with 2.155kg. Pete also had several quality roach on bread punch using a big punch over liquidise and later dropped a worm over some bubbles he had spotted and latched into a decent tench for the icing on the cake. Well done Pete !

   Third place from peg 28 was Gary Butler with 1.350kg. Gary's catch comprised 44 small roach and rudd using a combination of bread punch over liquidise in one swim with pinkie over a little ground bait in another. Great result Gary !

   Fourth spot went to Ken Penberthy next door on peg 27 with 1.345kg. Ken had lots of small roach and rudd on pinkie plus one nice skimmer. Nice one Ken !

Section Winners

Section A   Russell Hilton   peg 8   1.165kg

Section B   Eric Priest     peg 11   0.920kg

Section C   Paul Blake   peg 26   1.225kg

Next match is in a fortnight on the 8th March at Holbrook Bridge on the canal at Minnows.

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