Overall winner Chris Woolley scraped home by an ounce from Chris Bland and topped the silverfish category in the Carpenters Arms 2000 club match fished at The Sedges, Bridgwater.

Woolley caught an early 7-13-0 carp with straight lead and maggot fished at 25 metres off peg 13 before switching to a 13-metre pole and adding 13lb of skimmers. Meanwhile Bland fished a straight lead with cat meat at peg two for three carp weighing 21-12-0.

Rex Davies came third with 15-10-0 of skimmers and carp taken from peg six with maggot poled hard on the bottom at nine metres.

Result: 1, Chris Woolley 21-13-0, peg 13; 2, Chris Bland 21-12-0, peg 2; 3, Rex Davies 15-10-0, peg 6; 4, Craig Pinker 11-0-0, peg 5; 5, Neil carter 9-6-0, peg 7; 6, Steve Vowles 7-10-0, peg 10. Silverfish: 1, Chris Woolley 13-0-0.

Heavy rain and high winds made fishing uncomfortable but not impossible in the Landsend Fisheries Midweek Open, fished on Specimen Lake.

The best weight by far was a 75-14-0 catch of carp from the home team's Nick Duckett, who poled maggot shallow at 11 metres off peg 31 for carp weighing into low double figures.

Tony Rixon came second with 47-4-0. He poled maggot and caster at 17 metres off corner peg 25 for three carp weighing 35-1-0 and the top silverfish catch of 12-3-0.

Result, overall: 1, Nick Duckett (Team Landsend) 75-14-0, Peg 31; 2, Tony Rixon (Avon Angling Mosella) 47-4-0, peg 25; 3, Colin Dyer 14-8-0, Peg 27; 4, John Bennett (Carps AC) 11-0-0, peg 29; 5, Tim Clark (Avon Angling Select) 9-14-0, peg 36. Silverfish: 1, Tony Rixon 12-3-0.

Pete Sivell needed just 4-3-0 of skimmers and roach to win the Dave's Dozen Thursday Evening Open match fished at Bathurst Basin.

Sivell, the Dynamite Baits-sponsored rod, poled a double maggot hookbait over a caster laced groundbait at 10 metres centre off peg one and started catching small fish from his first put-in.

Meanwhile, match organiser Dave Clutterbuck fished the same method and bait at peg 8 for 2-0-0 of the same.

Result: 1, Pete Sivell (Dynamite Baits) 4-3-0, peg 1; 2, Dave Clutterbuck (Frys AC) 2-0-0, peg 8; 3, Adie Crawley (Frys AC) 1-1-0, peg 2; 4= Pete Ellis, peg 5 & Dave Carroll, peg 9, both Frys AC, both 1-0-0.

Defending champ, Bob 'The Bread' Price made it two wins on the trot in the Roland Poole Monday Series and already looks unbeatable at the halfway stage.

The Alcove AC member fished straight lead and luncheon meat at 40 metres off peg 3 on the dam wall for 19-3-0 of carp to 6lb.

The top silvers catch was taken by non-league member Gary Etheridge, from Swindon, who caught a 9-14-0 of skimmers and roach from end peg 11 on road bank with waggler and maggot.

Top points in the silverfish category went to Bill Ferris, who fished a whip with pinkie at peg 13 on the same bank, where he swung 4-7-0 of small roach and skimmers to hand.

Result, carp: 1, Bob "The Bread" Price 19-11-0, peg 3: 2, Ross Wilcox 15-1-0, peg 1; 3, Norman Ferris 9-5-0. Silvers: 1, Gary Etheridge 9-14-0, peg corner road bank; 2, Bill Ferris 5-0-0, peg half way road bank; 3 Andy Gard 4-7-0, Roach Hole.