Staunton Court, 18 November (16 pegs)

After a week of mild weather things were a little different on Sunday morning as clear skies overnight meant scraping the windscreen of the van outside and inside but Staunton is a deep lake (8 foot past the margins) and hopefully would not be too badly affected by the overnight frost.
As is the norm with Staunton matches breakfast was at the Watersmeet Hotel which is conveniently just a mile or so down the road from the fishery and provide a top quality breakfast accompanied by log fires and served up by a very attractive young waitress for six quid ... happy days!
On to the fishing and sixteen on the lake meant six on each of the long banks and two on each end which is just about as many as the lake can hold comfortably. 
Brian Shanks had the pleasure of drawing the golden peg (12) which is usually the kiss of death for most club members but not for the Westerleigh mugger who then went on to win the match with 93lbs 12oz.
Brian fished at 10m with corn on the hook over corn and pellet feed.
Next door on 13, Mike Smith also fished corn (over micros) at 6 & 14m for second with 80-2 followed by Will Dearlove on 15 who (you guessed it) fished with corn at 11m.  After a slow (hangover???) start, Alan Healy finally managed to get his act together on peg 7 and grabbed the last of the cash with 48-13 caught short on maggot.
Simon Des Belcham put his one rig to good use on peg 3 to take top silvers with an impressive 31-11 caught on maggot on the short pole line which included quality skimmers and a couple of bonus perch.
This week's Expensive Day award went to Ryan Jordan who unfortunately managed to get his no4 and 5 sections stuck together and after a lot of wiggling, tapping and pulling managed to create another two joints that weren't in the original pole.  Funnily enough he wasn't overjoyed when someone suggested he should have "hit it with an ironing board"!
Hero to Zero this week went to Jimmy Saville's love child, Adam Caswell who successfully managed to have the winner on one side of him as well as being battered from the other side by Ryan Radford, the club's only junior.
(Well I'm hardly going to nominate myself am I)

Full Result:

1. Brian Shanks* (peg 12) ...... 93-12
2. Mike Smith (13) ............ 80-2
3. Will Dearlove (15) ......... 52-9
4. Alan Healy (7) .............. 48-13
5. Mark Radford (2) .......... 48-5
6. Darren North (4) .......... 40-6
7. Paul Reed (6) ............... 34-14
8. Ryan Radford (10) ........ 33-4
9. Derek Lucas (1) ............ 32-0
10. Simon Belcham (3) ........ 31-1
11. Steve Burgess (5) ......... 26-12
12. Ryan Jordan (9) ............ 24-12
13. Steve Wynne (16) ......... 21-10
14. Adam Caswell (11) ........ 21-6
15. Eddie Wynne (16) .......... 14-0
16. Steve Tanner (14) .......... dnw

Silvers:

1. Simon Belcham ....... 31-1
2. Brian Shanks .......... 19-8
3. Darren North .......... 14-6
4. Eddie Wynne .......... 14-0 (of whitebait)!
5. Alan Healy ............. 13-4
6. Steve Wynne .......... 10-8