Bristol's Nigel Matthews recently hauled in two personal-bestcatches in a week, netting a 28lb mirror carp and a 31lb common carpin two warm-up sessions at Bathampton AA's Hunstrete Lake.
With the club's first carp match of the year looming, he haddecided to spend some time at the lake to get in tune with the fishand how they were feeding and the results were beyond his wildestdreams.
And his preparation paid off handsomely as he followed that upwith victory in the Bathampton AA 30-hour carp match, landing fivefish scaling 9lb 6oz, 16lb, 13lb 11oz and 20lb 8oz for 78lbs frompeg 18 to take the sizeable cash prize.
Other placings: 2 J Redman (Bristol) 64lb 2oz, 3 S Trott(Bristol) 63lb 13oz, 4 M Gingell (Bristol) 57lb 6oz, 5= M Bray(Bristol) 46lb 6oz, 6 D Fibbers (Bristol) 34lb 1oz.
Stoke St. Michael veteran Terry Bruton won last Thursday'sBathampton Over 55s/Disabled event at Withy Pool with a 98lb 10ozcarp catch taken on pole-fished sweet.
Other placings: 2 P Bryer (Bristol) 50lb, 3 P Phillips (Keynsham)42lb, 4 P Coolham (Bristol) 34lb 12oz, 5 T Church (Bristol) & MNicholls (Bitton) 25lb 6oz.
Mosella's Tony Whitcombe won the Landsend Fisher Wednesday Openwith a 194lb 14oz carp haul taken on pole-fished paste.
Other placings: 2 T Rixon (Mosella) 126lb, 3 A Clark (Bristol)82lb 11oz, 4 G Cross (Veals) 81lb, 5 M Duckett (Landsend) 80lb.
Army angler Trevor Senior hit top form in Viaduct Fishery'sWednesday Open match, winning with a fine net of carp and tenchweighing 177lb 14oz, taken on pole-fished pellets.
Other placings: 2 S Foale (Veals) 139lb 7oz, 3 P Garrett (MaverVeals) 113lb 9oz, 4 M Mashedar (Sensas Viaduct) 112lb, 5 A Neal(Maggots End) 109lb 12oz, 6 R Hayward (Haines Angling) 89lb 13oz.
Bathampton veteran Colin Golding won the Carps AC match atLendsend Fishery with a carp catch weighing 72lb 3oz taken on pole-fished pellets.
Other placings: 2 D Wride (Sensas Thyers) 63lb 12oz, 3 M Nicholls(Bathampton) 60lb 12oz.
The Wilts Angling Open match fished at Todber Manor on Saturdayproduced a win for Jamie Smith of Frome with a carp catch weighing190lb 4oz, taken on pole-fished paste.
Other placings: 2 C Blake (Salisbury) 140lb 10oz, 3 J Gray(Salisbury) 100lb 4oz, 4 I Willetts (Bradford) 100lb 2oz, 5 G O'Shea(Preston Innovation Thatchers) 91lb 4oz, 6 N Collins (Wincanton)67lb.
Last Sunday's Wilts Angling Open at Colkin Farm was won by JeffMatthews, from Trowbridge, with a carp catch weighing 85lb 12oztaken on feeder-fished red maggots over pellets.
Other placings: 2 I Willetts (Bradford) 78lb, 3 P Neate (Holt)76lb, 4 D Bancroft (Trowbridge) 64lb 5oz, 5 M Martin (Trowbridge)61lb, 6 F Eagles (Trowbridge) 59lb 8oz.
RESULTS
Sunday: Ridgeway match (Viaduct Fishery).
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