WADE ON WATER

SATURDAY’S Higham Lane Fishery Open was won by Dave Henry.

In another hard contest Dave fished bomb and corn on peg 25 to finish with 26lb 11ozs, the bulk of his catch being made in the first two hours of the match.

Dave Hurlston finished second, fishing in similar style to the winner at peg seven to weigh 15lb 12ozs.

John Varley finished a close third with a 15lb 12oz catch from peg 10.

Dave Cleaver won Mill on the Soar’s Tuesday Open from the unfancied peg two.

Dave pole fished pellet to land 18lb 5ozs of small carp and bream, Pete White netted a 8lb carp in the first few minutes to boost his catch to 12lb 14ozs for second place.

Tom Watt came third with 7lb 7ozs with Paul Cayliss finishing fourth with 6lb 9ozs.

The in-form Suzi Smith won a wind-swept Lychgate Fisheries midweek Open with a 9lb 14oz catch from peg 55.

Mark Jaques weighed 8lb 2ozs for second place with Barry Jaques finishing third with 6lb 4ozs.

After a bumper catch of big perch in a practise session the day before, Kev Milne fancied his chances when he drew the same peg the next day in Higham Lane’s Thursday contest.

But in four hours he could only catch one small “stripey”!

A change to casting bomb and corn to the island resulted in the capture of a 9lb carp, which was enough to give him a win with 9lb 7ozs.

Dave Massey finished second with 5lb 11ozs with Terry Sanderson finishing third with 3lb 6ozs.

Darryl Moore over came the windy conditions to make the top catch in Maynes Lakes mid week Open.

Darryl pole fished bread punch to land 6lb 8ozs.

Results; Pool One; Section One; Alan Wilson 5lb 8ozs from peg 33. Section Two; David Bolton, 4lb 2ozs from peg 39.

Pool Two; Section Three; Darryl Moore from peg 10. Section Four; Tony Simonetti 6lb 4ozs from peg 16.

Hinckley’s Phil Burgess took the honours in Plough A/S fourth Winter Aggregate contest fished on a rising river Avon at Ryton.

On an out of sorts river Phil caught one decent chub and some small fish to weigh 3lb 7ozs. Mick Durant came sec- ond with 1lb 13ozs while George Martin came third with 1lb 8ozs.

Shackerstone’s open match fished along the Horse & Jockey length was a miserable day for most with just two anglers catching fish.

Leading the way was Ray Brunt who captured three small perch to win with just 3ozs.

Andy Smith weighed a single ounce to take second place.

Higham Lane Fishery have Open matches on Thursday and Saturday, draw for both at 9am.

Lychgate Fisheries have open matches on Saturday, draw around 9am and on sunday draw 9.30am, check times with Paul.

Brookfield have an open match at Stoke Golding this Sunday, draw 9am.

Shackerstone have an open match this Sunday, draw 8am at the Rising Sun.

Mill on the Soar have an open match every Tuesday, draw 8.30am.

Maynes Lakes have an open match every Wednesday, draw 9am.

Lychgate Fisheries have an open match every Wednesday, draw 9am.