LES Sanders saw off a competitive field to win Swan AC’s second contest of 2018 at Tibberton.

The canal meeting was pegged across two halves with the wooded section producing the top weights courtesy of a bounty of chub.

Starting on peg 10 with bread punch, Sanders was rewarded with a good chub early on along with a few roach before a change to maggot produced another big chub to secure a match-winning total of 7-9-8.

Runner-up Keith Hunt had to wait until the second half before a whopping four-pound chub accepted his worm bait offered in the track on peg seven. A few punch fish brought up a total of 6-6-8.

Third place went to Len Merrill whose brace of chub along with a solitary skimmer and a few perch, all caught on worm and pinkie, saw him bag 6-5-11. The section prizes went to Mick Samson and Rich Brewer.

The next Swan AC contest is on the navigation section of the canal at Stoke Works on February 25.

  • Mick Watson won a wind-hit Barley Mow AC event on the Gambols section of the canal at Tibberton.

Watson’s haul comprised with one bream and a few small fish taken on punch from the doctor’s pound. He totalled 4-14-8.

Colin Davis came second with 2-11-5 The section winners were Rod Turner and Rob Reece.

  • Worcester ace Tim Biddle is rarely out of the money when he goes down to the Avon at Evesham.

On Sunday, the Sensas Droitwich Angling-backed star claimed second place in the forty-peg May Vince Open when he put together 8-14-0 of mainly skimmers from peg 67.

The individual winner was Pete Morris (Smithies) with 9-4-0 of roach and bleak from peg 60. Third place went to Shakespeare’s Lee Gardener with 7-7-0.