Trinity, Woodlands Lake, 16 Sept (13 pegs)

Apparently Brian Shanks's wife uses his tip rod to prop up her washing line at home and seeing as he doesn't have a plummet he has no idea that Woodlands lake at Trinity is actually 7 feet deep.
There's also a rumour circulating that Andy Seary is naming his new lodge at Stafford Moor "Mugger's Retreat" after him.
And apparently there's an unsubstantiated story doing the rounds that he is the only person ever to do a ton at Windmill (but that's getting into the realms of fantasy)!
So as you have probably already worked out, Westerleigh's greatest export, Brian Shanks took the honours today at Trinity although he did struggle as this time round he could only manage 135-9 which was over 90lbs short of the match record (set by ........ Brian Shanks).
Drawn on peg 14 Brian caught shallow at 14 & 5m on 8mm pellet.
Second and third place was a next-peg battle on the opposite bank with Alan Healy on peg 27 edging it from Chris Gay by ounces with 74-7 caught on paste over pellet at 8m.
Chris weighed in 73-3 from peg 25 fishing pellet shallow at 14m and paste on the deck over the same line.
Fourth place went to Darren North with 62-8 from peg 10 caught mostly shallow at 5m.
Top silvers went to Brian's traveling partner, Ron Hardiman with 11-8 of skimmers plus a tench and a suspicious looking fan-tail / f1 thing. 

Overall Result:

1. Mugger Shanks (peg 14) ... 135-9
2. Alan Healy (27) ................. 74-7
3. Chris Gay (25) ................... 73-3
4. Darren North (10) .............. 62-8
5. Mark Radford (23) ............. 56-2
6. Steve Burgess* (8) ............. 53-8
7. Rich Jones (12) .................. 47-8
8. Ryan Radford (17) ............. 32-5
9. Ron Hardiman (31) ........... 20-6
10. Mike Smith (6) .................. 19-5
11. Paul Reed (33) ................... 16-8
12. Adam Caswell / Lionel Legge .... dnw

Silvers:

1. Ron Hardiman ....... 11-8
2. Rich Jones ........... 5-0

*golden peg curse