Challenge Cup joy for Bob

Angling round-up: Eleven members competed for the St Anne's Board Mills' Challenge Cup, in the last match of the season at St Anne's Park.

Peg four came up with a small weight win for Bob Dark, who fished double red maggot at two thirds of the way across a crystal-clear River Avon. He converted three bites into three bream, totalling 8-4-0.

The runner-up was Andy Wilson, who fished worm and maggot along the same line for three bream and bits, which weighed 6-4-0. The only other angler who bothered to weigh in was Pete Powe with 2oz of bits, taken with float fished maggot at peg 22.

The weight of just one, decent-sized Westerleigh Lake carp separated the top three places in the Kingswood Disabled & Over 55s midweek match.

The winner was Brian Cleevely, who used maggot, sweetcorn and pellet to tempt 20-1-0 of F1s from the island margins of peg 23.

Second-placed Ted Bethel fished the same method at peg 21 for a similar 19-12-0, while Bob Dark fished pellet at 29 for 17-13-0.

Result: 1, Brian Cleevely (Alcove AC) 20-1-0, peg 23; 2, Ted Bethel (Alcove AC) 19-12-0, peg 21; 3, Bob Dark (Saints AC) 17-13-0, peg 29; 4, Bob Warren 8-10-0, peg 33; 5, Dave Cooper 8-2-0, peg 25; 6, John Scrase 7-15-0, peg 24.

Bob 'The Bread' Price topped both categories in the Carps AC midweek match, fished on Plantation Fishery's Main Lake.

He fished soft, 4mm pellet over a micro-pellet feed at nine metres centre off peg 33, and weighed in 30-0-0 of skimmers and two carp worth 13-7-0.

Result: 1, Bob 'The Bread' Price (Alcove AC) 43-7-0, peg 5; 2, Leyton Palmer 28-0-0, peg 19; 3, Mike Nicholls 15-0-0, peg 20; 4, Mike Owens (Sensas Thyers) 13-10-0, peg 28; 5, Martin Rayet (Preston Innovations Thatchers) 13-8-0, peg 27; 6, Bill Ferris 13-0-0, peg 39. Silverfish: 1, Bob "The Bread" Price 33-0-0; 2, Mike Nicholls 15-0-0, peg 20.

Bristol's Tony Rixon scored a double victory in the Landsend Midweek Open.

The Avon Angling Mosella ace poled caster close to both the aerator and the end of the island off Match 11, and his 54-7-0 top weight included seven carp totalling 31-12-0, plus the top silverfish catch of 22-11-0.

The runner-up was local rod, Gary Wall, who poled soft pellet close to the island at 13 metres off Match 19 to tempt nine carp, worth 42-4-0.

Overall: 1, Tony Rixon (Avon Angling Mosella) 54-7-0, Match 11; 2, Gary Wall (Team Landsend) 42-4-0, Match 19; 3, Bela Bakos 38-6-0, Match 23; 4, Jason Radford 31-14-0, Match 21; 5, Nick Duckett (Team Landsend) 31-2-0, Specimen 25; 6, Martin Lenaghan (Avon Angling) 28-15-0, Specimen 32.

Silverfish: 1, Tony Rixon 22-11-0, Math 11.

Members of the RSJ International AC turned in a surprisingly good set of weights at Cider Farm Lakes, despite fishing against a bright sun, a bitter east wind and a heavy overnight frost.

Top weight on the overall scoresheet was 56-2-0 of carp, taken from the lakeside margins of Shepherd's lake by Bob Feltham.

The best silverfish weight fell to Dave Bacon.

Overall: 1, Bob Feltham 56-2-0, peg 13; 2, John Thompson 45-2-0, peg 5; 3, Steve Horsewell 42-10-0, peg 11. Silverfish: 1, Dave Bacon (Bacon's Tackle) 11-9-0, peg 2.