JIMMY Crimes and Robbie King won the British Legion National Pairs Championship match, fishing for Ellesmere Port British Legion AC.
The match saw one of each pair drawn on the River Avon at Bradford on Avon, and the other drawn on the Kennet and Avon Canal. Crimes took bleak on the river to weigh 5-14-0 while King, on the canal, brought in small roach and perch for 3-12-0.
In third were Andy Fletcher and Mike Pearson. Fletcher took 4-15-0 of bleak from the river while Pearson weighed in with roach from the canal for 1-10-0.
As winners of the North Wales Winter League, Rod n' Reel qualified to fish in the North Western area semi-finals at Lindholm Lakes at Doncaster. The top three qualified for the final and Rod just made it, coming home in third out of 11 teams.
Top rod Lenny Bolton came sixth with 50-0-0 of small carp. Paul Johnston contributed with 43-0-0 of carp and Nigel Smith with 36-0-0.
Rod now go on to fish the final on the River Nene in June.
Victory went to Dave Lawrence in the Thursday open match at Lingmere Fishery. A mixed 35-0-0 gave him the lead over Steve Balsom with a carp-based 29-8-0 and Steve Openshaw with 23-10-0.
Top rod in Lingmere's Saturday match was Steve Balsom, taking a mixed haul for 37-4-0 to defeat Craig Swain with 35-0-0 and Richard Nelson with 34-2-0.
Kenny Stuart won the Wirral Borough Council AC match at Wrighton Fishery in Wigan. Taking carp, skim-mers and tench gave him 21-4-0 to lead Andrew Jones' 17-6-0 of carp and Henry Muller with 16-10-0 of carp.
Dave Eyres claimed victory in the Lobol AC match on their priory pool. A haul of crucians, roach and skim-mers gave him 4-11-8 and the lead over Ian Courtney and Ray Cummins, both with roach-based 4-5-0.
