TOP Brockamin rod Chris Senter won the biggest match held on the venue this year when he took the honours in the popular Bill Edgar Memo-rial contest from unfancied peg 40.

With the bottom lake in form all summer, Senter's paste tactics offered at just five metres were spot-on.

After netting four or five carp and around eight pounds of small fish on his close in line, a switch to meat bait presented at 13 metres proved to be inspirational with Senter landing a further six good fish to finish with an excellent winning weight of 90-12-0.

Seasoned campaigner Colin Newman caught just five carp from peg 13 on the same lake as the winner, but they pulled the scales around to a staggering 72-12-0 total, meat and corn pole fished into the margins being Newman's successful approach.

Once again Chris Summers made the leader board, this time with the best weight from the top pool of 68-3-0 for third place. Most of Summers haul coming to paste bait on peg 31 along with sweetcorn in the margins.

Carp ace Rob Wilson claimed the final fourth prize after netting two carp on the waggler before adding six more fish on the meat for 58-4-0 from peg 35 on the bottom pool.

There will be another match at the venue this weekend, with details available from Alan's Tackle shop.

Barbourne AC were greeted with a low clear river Severn when they held their latest contest on the racecourse section at Pitchcroft last weekend.

Top rod on the day was Richard Coffey who netted just one bream from peg eight on the bottom end going 5-12-0, the fish falling for straight ledgered meat and maggot bait.

Runner-up from peg nine was Kevin Anderson who also took a solitary roach, which accepted his open-end feeder and maggot combination and weighed 5-7-0.

Pete Hughes finished in third-place when he took an all-roach weight of 2-12-0 from peg 13 on the concrete to beat Nigel Hobday, whose 2-8-0 perch net came to stick float and maggot on the last peg by the stables and was good enough for fourth prize.

The club are once again organising the Bank's Cup on the canal on Sunday 7th October.

Team captains should contact Paul Bosworth on 01905 356678 to enter.

Graham Collins won a difficult Portobello AC match on the Avon at Birlingham with the help of a three-pound pike.

Pole fishing a line close to the bank with maggot bait brought Collins enough small roach and chub to win the match without the bigger fish however, it did boost his total to a respectable 7-3-0.

Runner-up Wayne Parkin used the waggler to take 2-8-0, while his son Adam needed just 0-8-0 to come claim third place.

The club visit the Plough pool at Cotheridge next week where they should be able to capitalise on the return to form of this popular venue.

There was a very close result on this year's King of Tons' competition at Moorlands Farm with less than a pound separating the top two.

Winner on the 30-peg morning contest was Lee Richards using pellet bait on Meadow 16 to take an all carp weight of 81-6-0, second place was Mar-tin Lefferve with 65-13-0 and third was Dean Sheldon's weight of 55-2-0.

The evening match produced better weights with Des Ravenhall coming out on top with 112-3-0 of sweetcorn taken carp from Meadow 8, Howard Kelly came second weighing 101-9-0 to beat Mal Talbot who weighed in a third placed 82-9-0.

Overall Richards took title with a two match total of 143-6-0, Ravenhall came second with 142-9-0 and Kelly third on 134-11-0.

Wednesday's over 50s open saw M. Watson take first place with 120-7-0, while P. Wellin-gton was second with 78-9-0, third was R. Baxter with 72-11-0. The Sunday Open was won by D. Ravenhall with 108-3-0, M. Tooze came in second with 105-7-0 and C. Cameron was third with 87-10-0.

With rivers running low and clear, stillwaters offer the best with commercial fisheries producing excellent weights to anglers using paste.