MICK Denton won North Oxford Angling Society’s first summer canal club match fished on the Oxford Canal at Wolvercote Green.

Denton used worm to head the field with perch, skimmers and a 2lb tench for a winning weight of 7lb 5oz.

Also using worm, Martin Robinson finished second with 5.13.0 of perch and skimmers.

In third place was Ian Fisher who started with bread and caught skimmers, before changing to worm for perch and weighed-in 5.12.0 in a match contested by 18 anglers.

Continuing milder conditions saw the best weights of the year so far on the Red Kite and Woodpecker lakes at Oakfield Fishery, Kingswood, near Bicester.

Alan Foulkes caught all match from peg seven on the Red Kite, where he landed plenty of carp to 8lb and F1 carp to over 3lb on the long pole using maggot.

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Richard Wall landed carp to 9lb on the method feeder using mini boilie to take the top weight from the Woodpecker.

Meanwhile, it was a story of two different lakes with Red Kite fishing hard in cold temperatures and a biting east wind, but Woodpecker shrugging off conditions to throw up the top eight weights.

Dave Howe fished 13m of pole to the deepest water on the Woodpecker where he was on maggot over micro pellet and maggot.

Howe landed 24 quality carp to 9lb, while Ian Edwards was second with 27 carp to 6lb using similar tactics.

RESULTS

Oakfield Fishery (Wednesday, Red Kite & Woodpecker lakes, 13 fished): 1 A Foulkes (Dynamite Oakfield) 101.03.8, 2 R Wall, (Dynamite Oakfield) 72.06.0, 3 G Worrall (Top Tackle) 71.13.0, 4 B Eddy (Dynamite Oakfield) 56.13.0, 5 J Emmerson (Top Tackle) 47.04.0, 6 R Llewellin (Dynamite Oakfield) 35.00.0.

Oakfield Fishery (Saturday, Red Kite and Woodpecker, 30 fished): 1 D Howe (Browning Southern) 115.03.8, 2 I Edwards (Dynamite Oakfield) 93.04.0, 3 S Page (Drennan Banbury Gunsmiths) 70.01.0, 4 D Stratful (Dynamite Oakfield) 56.10.8, 5 D Johnson (Top Tackle) 50.15.0, 6 I Graham (J&K Tackle) 48.15.8, 7 P Alland (Dynamite Oakfield) 44.01.0, 8 G Keetley (J&K Tackle) 43.09.0.

Oakfield Fishery (Sunday, Woodpecker lake only, 12 fished): 1 D Stratful (Dynamite Oakfield) 59.06.0, 2 B Eddy (Dynamite Oakfield) 48.04.8, 3 R Young (Dynamite Oakfield) 41.02.8, 4 D Askew 28.07.0, 5 M Chappell 23.14.0, 6 A Foulkes (Dynamite Oakfield) 23.03.0, 7 M Nutt (GOT Baits) 21.14.0, 8 C Davies (Dynamite Oakfield) 16.15.8.