PORTOBELLO angler Ivor Taylor is proving something of a Willow Marsh expert with the veteran matchman recording yet another victory from the Sandpiper' pool.

Winner on a similar match at the fishery last year, Taylor adopted the same successful chopped worm approach in order to net carp to six pounds.

Alternating his worm bait with caster saw him finish the match with an excellent 53lb 2oz winning total.

Close on the winner's heels was the club's stillwater expert Nic Hill, who again found himself in a corner of the pool, this time peg eight.

Hill had to wait until the final two hours of the contest to take an all-carp weight of 50-0, coming to corn and meat at four metres.

Third for the second match in a row was Alan Baldwin who netted three hefty carp on sweetcorn going 29-14.

Fourth was last season's champion Pete Coldrick with a level 25-0 of small carp and silver fish, taken on corn and meat from peg seven.

This Sunday's contest on the Avon has been cancelled.

Canal expert Mick Samson proved he is no slouch on commercial fisheries when he took the honours during the Swan AC encounter on the top pool at Hawford Bridge Fishery.

Presenting corn and worm bait close into the corner, Samson netted carp to five pounds in his 53-4 net.

Mick Huggins claimed the runner-up spot from the adjacent peg with another all-carp net, taken on maggot bait and going 51-8.

Third was Sue Jacques who took fish shallow at 11 metres to end with 48-12, beating Rod Guise's 36-5.

Plough AC tackled the unusually deep Arbo pool where Dave Yapp cast a feeder set-up mid-lake with meat on the hook and was rewarded with a solitary carp going 17-8.

It was a new personal best for Yapp, which was enough to secure victory on the day.

Runner-up Tony O'Neil took four carp for 16-6 from the margins on peg 21.

Thanks to inside information, third-placed Anthony Staite netted two fish close in for a weight of 15-8, beating club star Andy Sankey whose 8-8 weight came from peg three.

Setting a new club record was Roy Munslow who registered his fourth consecutive dry net.

The latest round of the Wards AC evening league took place on a heavily coloured club pool.

Weights were respectable with Terry Cook first thanks to a late run of fish which came to paste and pellet on peg 20 and tipped the scales to a winning 22-8.

Runner-up Terry Box got off to a flyer on peg 11 but a quiet end saw him finish just short of the winner when he weighed in 21-8 of carp.

It was just good enough to beat Leon Elsworth's third-placed weight of 19-4.

The previous week's event took place on Grove Farm where Kevin Proud took the verdict with a winning carp weight of 43-6.

Pete Smith was second with 42-4 of carp and Box managed 24-8.

Barbourne AC visited Stallards pool at Ombersley and found conditions difficult with Paul Bosworth being the only angler to break double figures.

Offering maggot bait on the pole as well as the feeder, Bosworth took small carp and skimmers for a 10-4 total.

Second was Mick Taylor with 7-12, followed by Ashley Bosworth with 6-9 and Richard Hancox with 4-11.

The club's next outing is this weekend's annual match on the Furnace Mill fishery.

Moorlands Farm Sat Open: 1 D Ravenhall 124-7, 2 M Tooze 112-10, 3 M Leferve 102-7; Sun Open: 1 C Pace 91-0, 2 R Faroe 86-13, 3 A Jones 60-11.