KENNY Stuart landed first place in Sunday's Wirral Borough Council AC match on the Quarry length of the River Severn at Shrewsbury, writes Brian Roberts.

Fishing worm below a waggler brought him chub and roach for a total of 4-12-0, to beat Mark Greasley with 4-2-0 and Graham Aveyard with 4-1-0.

Phil Cross took top spot in Sunday's Willaston AC match on the Shropshire Union canal at Tattenhall.

Pole-fishing pinkie under his feet brought him 115 gudgeon to make 2-12-4 and finish clear of James Hughes with 1-1-0 and Peter Bernard with 10-8.

Rod N'Reel had to settle for a bottom-half placing in Sunday's North West semi-final match of Winter League winners on the Shropshire Union canal at Market Drayton.

Top weighers on a dour day were Rob Denny with roach for 2-8-0, Rob Leatherbarrow on 1-8-0 and Mike Flanaghan on 1-4-0.

Dave Grimes took a single 2-0 roach to become the only weigher in Sunday's Rivacre AC match on the Sankey-St Helens canal at Spike Island.

A bit of everything for 10-0-0 enabled Danny Boothroyd to take top spot on Lobol AC's Priory pool, with Dave Eyres having crucians and skimmers for 3-15-0 and Linda Cooke having a mixed 3-0-0.

Geoff McCalmont reeled in first place in the Helsby Sports & Social Club AC match on the BICC pools with chub, skimmers and crucians for 7-10-0.

Ron York took 3-8-0 which included a 2-8-0 bream, while Chris Haragdon had 2-12-0 of chub.

Rob Kennerley led Thursday's match on the Lingmere Fishery with a mixed 14-7-0, beating Mike Flanaghan on 14-6-0 and Steve Balsom's 12-10-0.

In Saturday's match, first place went to Jamie Hughes with a mixed 6-12-0, topping Dave Randles snr with 4-0-0 and John Armour on 3-0-0.

The Neston Carp Fishers were rewarded with specimen fish on the Burton Mere Fishery last week.

Brian Maxwell tempted a fully-scaled 6-0-0 mirror, 12-0-0 common and 17-14-0 mirror to dynamite attractor bait.

Matthew Barrett coaxed a 15-0-0 mirror and 12-0-0 common carp to the same bait.

Ellesmere Port's Brian Thomas struck lucky on the Meadow Fishery as he took a 4-8-0 rainbow trout to a black buzzer.