John Aldridge, of the Fox Match Isis team, emerged triumphant in the second round of the Oxford Winter League on the Medley, Abbey Road and Folly sections of the Thames, writes Andy Webber.
Pegged in the deep water at Folly and after struggling for four hours, Aldridge decided to try the chop worm feeder and caught 14lb of perch in the last hour for a winning total of 17.4.0.
Mick Denton (Drennan GOT Bbaits) was second with 16.12.0. He was pegged in the narrow Abbey section above Botley Road and had a mixture of roach and perch on the pole, and chopped worm and then caster.
Neil Grant (Turners) wei-ghed in a third place with 15.12.0 – an all-roach catch on the peg above Potts Stream by Osney Lock.
Those anglers pegged on the Medley were unlucky, with one section being won with less than 2oz.
On the team front, Drennan and Turners tied on 35 points, with A4 and Isis coming joint third on 32.
This leaves Turners leading the league on three points with Drennan and A4 tied on four.
Kinloch AC and Witney joined forces, with 25 matchmen catching a total of more than 2,000lb of carp at Alders Farm, near Milton Keynes.
The winner was Kevin Simpson with 231.8.0, Phil Western weighed in 153.8.0 for second, while third was Derek Pumfrey with 139.8.0.
Most anglers used only the top two sections of their poles.
Stephen Malone was the clear winner of Tackley Sports’ Pairs Cup with 89.0.0, using a method feeder on a low and cold Stable Lake, where the 11 anglers caught plenty of fish.
Runner-up John Spencer fired a bomb with pellet across to the island and weighed in 62.0.0 of carp for second place, and third was Chris Bevis with 54.8.0.
There was a turn-out of 13 for the Jolly Anglers’s CJ Holmes Trophy fished on the Thames at Fairmile.
Phil Ansell walked away with it, netting 14 bream, the best going 6.14.0 in a total of 74.0.0.
Lee Crook, who picked off three stragglers, weighed in 17.10.0 for second spot, while Martin MacDonald was third with 6.8.0.
Beehive AC’s 18 matchmen took more than 500lb of fish to the scales in their AS Scientific Shield on a frost-hit Panshill.
First was Kevin Jeacock with 68.12.0, followed by Marcus Molson (48.11.0) and third-placed Steve Ferris (44.8.0).
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