Angling

Yarm's Geoff Douglas pegged near the fish haven mouth lifted the venue's match best to 29.8.0.

Deciding on groundbait feeder and worm into midriver 14 bream up to 3-0-0 and a sprinkling of perch and roach pushed him well clear.

With a similar approach runner up Kevin Hall of Thornaby included a super Tees bream of 7.12.0 in an 11 fish haul of 22-0-0 off peg 7.

Others: Dave Pearce (Yarm) 14.8.0; Keith Jones (Yarm) 10.0.0.

Top juniors: Craig Coverdale (Thornaby) 2.1.0 John Irish (Thornaby) 1.4.0.

Top Girl: Lauren Melville (Thornaby) 0.12.0.

Around Yarm on the Tees on Sunday small silver fish dominated the penultimate fixture of the Drennan Northern Super League.

Running at normal level but clear perch and roach were the target for Darlington AC Gold's Peter Close who finished first in the frame. Pegged on 166 below the paddock feeding maggot and worm on the pole at eight metres delivered.

Peter Rambow jnr sat opposite Whitehouse Farm top limit on 174 and opted for a feeder and worm approach netting 6.12.0 of perch stealing second place by 1oz.

Newman Scott Blue bounced back after a disappointing last match to win on the day and with one match to go - next Sunday at Woodland Lakes - should finish champions again as they hold an 18 point advantage over nearest rivals Darlington Angling Centre Gold.

Top three teams on the day: 1 Newman Scott Blue 61 pts; 2 Darlington Angling Centre Gold 58; 3 Newman Scott Red 50.

League to date: 1 Newman Scott Blue 274pts; 2 Darlington Angling Centre Gold 256; 3 Newman Scott Red 254; 4 Cleveland Angling Centre 247; 5 Anglers Services Hartlepool 223; 6 Darlington AC White 219.

Mr Consistent Shildon's Cyril Close recording 24.1.0 notched up his second successive win during the prestigious Haggie Cup. 62 competitors lined the Upper Swale between Easby Abbey and Great Langton Bridge and Cyril on the run-off at Castle Hill corner edged wasp grub through on an Avon float. Eight chub found the bait irresistible leaving Darlington's John Eyles well down on 11.4.0.

Langton top limit responded to bomb and meat as John tamed a barbel of 7.8.0 and a quality chub.

Best of the rest: Alan Kelly (Darlington) 10.4.0; Charlie Hodgson (Darlington) 9.7.0.

The Swale stained a mahogany colour affected sport during the Northallerton and District Sheldon Cup on the Scruton match length.

Reigning Upper Swale Champion Pat Adams used his expertise returning the day's only double figured weight of 13.6.0.

Below the old railway bridge at Morton stickfloat and bronze maggot accounted for dace grayling a barbel and a couple of chub 2.0.0 apiece for the RSPS Tek Neek Trabucco ace.

Next Tony Broder of Yarm located dace and grayling to stickfloat and maggot for 6.15.0 followed by Les Morton of Darlington 6.9.0 and Jeff Herbert of RSPS Tek Neek Trabucco 5.3.0.

On the Ure bright and sunny conditions prevailed on a low river making fishing difficult for those in the Ripon Piscatorials Alma Cup and only the winner may the scoresheet look respectable.

Despite two lost fish Tadcaster's Gary Bulloch went on to win following a mid match burst that resulted in 3 decent chub. Drawing on the bridging site at Bishop Monkton maggot feeder over the nearside ledge produced the magical trio to make for 13.14.0 at the scales.

Meanwhile one fish a bream of 7.0.0 put James Martin of Leeds firmly ahead of the rest. Legering lobworm on the diving board swim James added small roach and perch nudging his score up to 7.4.0.

Carp Scene

It was only a matter of time before Woodland Lake's five hour open record topped the ton. The 99.14.0 set a fortnight ago was smashed twice during a sensational Bank holiday bash.

Pulling out peg 20 on Skylark Map Elton's Daryl Taylor opted for a six metre and paste attack amassing carp galore mirrors and commons up to 6-0-0 along with a few barbel and tench for a staggering 109.8.0.

Teammate Gordon Poole weighed in before the winner and when the scales registered 102.3.0 held the record for barely 20 minutes before relegation.

Sat on 25 over on Partridge Lake Gordon had more of a mixed bag including barbel chub tench and of course lots of carp switching between three and six metres on the paste.

Others: Ian Thompson (Elton Tackle) 99.10.0; Dave Owen (Knaresborough) 80.8.0.

Woodland Lakes (Wed) - Curlew Kestrel Partridge Skylark & Wagtail (74 pegs): 1 D Smith (Map Elton) 95.1.0; 2 G Skirrey (Turners Tackle Sacriston) 88.4.0; 3 A Wood (Castleford) 81.8.0.

Saturday's Open - Partridge & Skylark (70 pegs): 1 B Sowerby (Knaresborough) 67.4.0; 2 N Hargreaves (Elton Tackle) 66.13.0; 3 K Kotchie (Map Elton) 59.8.0.

Team Middy Don's Pete Barron experienced his first Oaks victory taking a level 66.0.0 in Thursday's 44 pegger on Maple Lake.

Fishing peg five Pete went out to 13 metres on the pole connecting with a succession of carp best a common of 5-0-0 alternating pellet and paste hookbaits.

Local Gary Pawlett poled his way to 54.6.0 of carp to pellet off peg 22.

Oaks Sessay Sunday Maple Lake (55 pegs): 1 A Hampson (Hirst Tackle) 44.0.0; 2 Simon Wood (Map Elton) 42.10.0; 3 D Pimlott (Elton Tackle) 41.14.0.

Trout News

At Redworth's Jubilee Lakes three double figured rainbows last week - the pick a super specimen of 19.9.0 by Ormesby's George Worsley to a gold head pheasant tail. Olive buzzers damsels and black cactus clusters best patterns.

Leighton Reservoir offering quality rainbows - S Spiwak of Shipley and Darlington's I Thornberry both grassed specimens of 8.0.0 as 212 visitors landed 464 trout.

Small black flies daddy longlegs and buzzers deadly.

J Conway topped the Durham fly Fishing Association match on this N York's venue with a bag of 11.7.0.

Derwent: 429 rods - 1216 trout. Rainbows to 6.8.0. Dam Wall and sailing club hotspots with cats whisker small gold heads and Dawsons doing well.

Hury: 173 anglers - 393 fish - 10 limit bags. Rainbows to 5.0.0.

Grassholme: 166 visitors - 368 fish - 10 limit bags. Highlight a rainbow of 9.4.0.

Scaling Dam: 200 rods - 340 fish. Rainbows to 6.0.0.

Blackton: 56 anglers - 140 trout - 2 limit bags. Top rainbow 9.0.0.

Fontburn: 549 visitors - 1258 trout. D Miller of Cramlington landed an impressive rainbow of 13.3.0. Worm tops and vivas Dawson's olive and black and peacock spiders also producing.

Kielder: 198 rods - 417 trout. Top rainbow of 9.4.0 fell to P Leighton of Leaplish. Pheasant tail black hares ear daddy longlegs and hoppers best flies.

Fixtures

Tomorrow: *NFA Embassy Div 5 National River Nene Peterborough; *EA National Lower Tees Bowesfield; *Woodland Lakes Open.

Sunday: *Bradford NO1 AA Hirst Cup River Swale at Maunby; *Thornaby AA Sept & Jnr Cups River Tees Croft to Hurworth; *Drennan Northern Super League (6) Woodland Lakes; *NCL Round (4) River Ure at Ripon; *Durham County Indiv. Champs Middle Tees at Over Dinsdale; *Richmond AS Mowatt Cup Swale Great Langton; *Oaks Sessay Open Maple Lake.