Monster catch for Tim on the canal

8:00pm Thursday 8th May 2008

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WORCESTER star Tim Biddle rocked the angling world when he took a fantastic 44 pounds of chub to win the Swan Angling Club's latest match on the Kidderminster canal at Oldington Lane.

With his end peg being the only one below the Black Pipe, an area famous for big chub catches, Biddle was able to exploit the shoal to the full.

Attacking his peg with caster bait in the centre channel saw the local ace net fish to two pounds from the start.

By following the fish up the far shelf, he kept in touch until the end of the contest.

His staggering weight, which could be a record for the canal, also included a bream and a 2lb carp.

Mark Newman's weight of 9lbs 8oz would normally be good enough to win, however, he had to settle for second.

Also offering caster in the track', Newman took 15 similar-sized roach and a chub.

Third-placed Les Sanders netted just four small fish and a bream before changing his approach to caster to bag bigger roach in his 5-11 catch.

Canal specialist Colin Davis took fourth prize with 5-0 of caster roach.

The club's next trip is to Shernall Green in two weeks.

Carp specialist Richard Oliver continued his good run during the first Halfway AC contest of the new term on the club's Libbery pool at Broughton Hackett.

On fancied peg three, Oliver started at 16 metres across the island with maggot bait and was rewarded with a carp early on before a change to the inside produced a run of fish around the 2lb mark.

A late carp of 15lb sealed the verdict for Oliver with a weight of 33-5.

Glen Butt landed six carp on feeder and maggot from peg 20 for 26-7 and second place.

Macaroni man Graham Goodyear ignored his favourite bait in preference to the humble maggot and took 10-4, including a fine 2lb perch.

In fourth place was new member R Roberts with 8-10.

The next Halfway AC contest is on the match lake at Docklow fishery in three weeks.

The Arbo Club tackled the canal at Astwood Bank with last year's points winner Phil Bennett getting off to a flyer.

Bennett offered his punch and pinkie bait close in as well as across to the far shelf in order to net a perch and gudgeon winning weight of 1-7.

Runner-up by the narrowest of margins was seasoned veteran Acko Staite who stuck to the inside with pinkie and big maggot to take a solitary perch in an otherwise all gudgeon catch of 1-6.

Ade Wilks came third, weighing in a gudgeon net of 0-15 to beat Bill Skilbeck's 0-13-8.

Derek Silk won the Wards Club Roy Harris Memorial Contest on their recently-stocked club pool with an all carp weight of 42-8.

It came from peg 28 in the neck of the pool to pellet and corn at 14 metres.

Runner-up was Terry Box from the margins of peg 12 with a pellet and paste-taken 25-7 and in third place was Keith Lambert weighing in an all-carp net of 22-2 from peg 21.

The match was in aid of the Acorns Children's Hospice Trust and raised £200.

The latest results from Stourport's Solhampton Fishery: York Road AC, Valley Pool: T Webb 45lb 6oz, D Bird 44-10, T Bucknell 32-2; Open Dragon Pool: Dave Harrison 76-0, Carl Baker 49-2, Burgess Homer (Solhampton) 43-0; Open Duck Pool: John Ellis 92-2, Barry Stone (Windmill AC) 87-6, Nick Rowley 58-0; Open Duck Pool: Scott Jones 101-6, Andy Danks 66-0, Homer 57-0; Open Valley Pool: Andy Danks 149-0, John Ballion 76-0, Ron Cox 54-10; latest: Homer 101-14, Kevin Driver (Solhampton) 99-14, Scott Jones 98-8.