A good entry of 66 enjoyed consistent roach sport on the Ouse below York on Sunday with over 3lb needed to top every section in the York Amalgamation Tower Trophy.

Mick Potter (Anglers World York) put on an old-school performance from a peg on the Palace bend.

Dusting off the slider floats, he inched one of the 70s' favourites down the middle of a sluggish river with caster beneath for a 6lb 1oz winning haul of roach from 2 to 8oz.

If the winner's catch was by virtue of quantity it was very much the quality card that was played by Rich Darling (Tang Hall Match Group).

Pegged at the top of the Donkey Woods sand bed, he netted just five roach for his 5lb 7oz. Fishing groundbait feeder in mid-river he netted fish to 1lb 10oz on bread and caster.

Third place went to Jim Carter (Selby DAA), who fished a groundbait feeder with red maggots opposite the boats in the first field at Middlethorpe. His all-roach bag scaled 5lb 4oz.

Others: Pete Austin (Selby DAA) 5-2-0; Ken Wallis (York Tackle) 5-1-0; Paul Clarke (Hirst Tackle) and Paul Claydon (Tadcaster) both 3-13-0.

York river expert Steve Hodson (RSPS Tekneek Trabucco) made it back to back wins at Ripon when he topped a gruelling 80-pegger on the streams sections on Sunday.

Pegged in Simpsons field, he offered waggler and caster towards some far-side rocks where he found five chub, plus two colossal perch weighing 3lb 6oz and 3lb 1oz, for a total of 20lb 8oz.

Adrian Lewis (Waterline Wibsey) was on the famous Leathams run-off and swapped his caster baits between waggler and bomb for 16 small chub scaling 19-14-0.

Jim Cowgill (Bradford) took third from 152 with 14lb 12oz of chub and dace on waggler and caster.

Others: Kevin Warburton (RSPS Tekneek Trabucco) 13-0-0; Steve Newns (KL Tackle) 12-2-0; Pat Adams (RSPS Tekneek Trabucco) 11-3-0.

Dean Smith (Tekneek Trabucco Elton) turned specimen hunter in his latest bid to defend the Kamasan crown.

His 54lb 8oz winning net in Saturday's 81-pegger fished on all lakes, bar Swallow, consisted of just seven carp.

Drawn on corner peg 21, on Dragonfly the York based commercial fishery guru used pole and corn fished close in and to the boards for fish to double figures.

John Chapman (Drennan NW) alternated maggot feeder and pole and corn from Skylark 30 for his second-placed carp bag of 46lb 8oz.

Others: John Bradshaw (Sensas Garbolino) 43-8-0; Ray Singh (MAP Elton) 41-5-0; Lee Blythe (Northallerton AC) 38-5-0; Anthony Evans (Castleford) 37-12-0.

The winter series at Raker kicked off in fine style on Sunday when 30 anglers tackled Horseshoe Lake.

Jim Pearson (JT Rogers) scored an easy win with 72lb 6oz of carp to 5lb on maggot and corn at 18 metres from peg 21.

John Cosgrove (York Tackle) took second from peg 16 where he fished down the track at 11 metres with maggots for 39lb 5oz of small stock carp.

Others: Neil Horne (Headingley Angling) 36-1-0; Frank Johnson (Headingley Angling) 31-2-0.

Leeds veteran Bernard Guy (East End Park) topped Sunday's 20 peg Carpvale open on Cyprio Lake with a level 37lb.

He bagged nine carp on feeder and corn from peg 8.

Others: Brian Webster (Bob.Co) 24-0-0; Dave Spence (Bob.Co) 18-1-0; John Sykes (Bob.Co) 17-8-0.

Updated: 08:57 Wednesday, November 05, 2003