Gary Thorpe (TUB)

Gary Thorpe jokingly lambasted Gary Acock yesterday for not winning from Peg 14, and then claiming that he would draw the same peg in the Sunday Match. He amazingly had the luck to go one better and drew it as the Golden Peg! .

As Gary Acock found out yesterday - Your dammed if you do and your dammed if you don't, but Gary Thorpe didn't care as he picked up both the Match winners pool and the Golden Peg slush fund! Again, Gary fully exploited the Bar at 14.5m at this winter hot spot. He took fish on sweetcorn hook baits over potted sweetcorn and pellets. Yesterdays NW wind picked up a gear and blew down the lake making presentation a nightmare at the best of times - one unlucky angler snapped a pole section, borrowed one from a mate, then snapped that too: now that's unlucky!!

For the record, Gary almost doubled the nearest rival with his winning return of 141lb.

Ian Young (Anchor)

Drawn on another of the lakes top winter pegs (15) Ian Young (Anchor) took enough Carp to secure runners up coin in the Rolfslake Sunday Open. Ian fished as long as the wind would allow (and the lake rules - 16m) but for every fish he landed Gary next door seemed to land 2. All the same, Ian returned a very respectable 74lb 4oz on a bitterly cold day.

Elsewhere

Slow and hard going. A few Carp to be had in most pegs but the bulk of the fish remaining out of the 16m range. Silver fish have been absent this weekend with 12lb the top weight from peg 33 for Mick Wilkinson today.