Trinity, Woodlands Lake, 20 May (17 pegs)

With the weather having warmed up a bit of late Trinity is really starting to fish well on most methods, but in particular, pellet shallow and fishing the margins are the way to go.
And when it comes to fishing the pole shallow, there aren't many around that can compete with Brian Shanks.
Drawn on peg 11, and with empty pegs either side (Adam Caswell was on 10), the Westerleigh mugger fished 8mm banded / feed at 14m for a winning total of 108-10.
Rich Jones in peg 33 spent a token 10 minutes waving a shallow rig around before dropping into his left hand margin where he caught steadily all day to take second place with 86-14.  Rich caught mainly on corn over corn and 6mm meat feed.
Third place went to Darren North on peg 27 with 76-11 fishing pellet shallow at 14m followed by Ron Hardiman on peg 14 with 70-2.  Ron also caught shallow but had most of his fish on paste down the edge.
First out of the money (but well ahead of Alan Healy on the next peg) was Steve Burgess with 66-8 from peg 7.  Again Steve started the match fishing pellet shallow before switching to the right margin and catching on meat.
Top silvers went to Derek Lucas in peg 2 where, despite losing various rigs to trees and carp, managed 11-10 fishing caster close to the reeds.

Overall Result:

1. Brian Shanks (peg 11) ...... 110-9
2. Rich Jones (33) ........... 86-14
3. Darren North (27) ....... 76-11
4. Ron Hardiman (14) ...... 70-2
5. Steve Burgess (7) ........ 66-8
6. Alan Healy (8) ............. 57-2
7. Mike Smith (24) ........... 37-14
8. Mark Radford (25) ........ 34-9
9. Simon Belcham (20) ..... 30-0
10. Steve Wynne (19) ......... 22-6
11. Derek Lucas (2) ............ 17-4
12. Paul Reed (28) ............. 16-11
13. Adam Caswell / Mike Welling / Ryan Radford ... dnw
14. Mark Britton / Chris Szakacs ... early baths!

Silvers:

1. Derek Lucas ..... 11-10
2. Simon Belcham ..... 7-4
3. Steve Burgess ....... 7-2
4. Paul Reed ............. 6-4
5. Mark Radford ........ 5-0