Anglers World veteran Stan Haigh won a dour 96-peg penultimate round of the Yorkshire Winter League and claimed the final four Kamasan points he needed to reach the British Open Championship.

The Ouse below York was cold and clear and with only small roach willing to feed it was a low scoring match.

Click here for 'Scarborough Rock Anglers win trophy' by Trevor Dale

Haigh, who was fishing from a peg above the long flier, used pole and maggot at nine metres and had a mixed bag of small roach and perch scaling 3lb 12oz 8gr.

Only half an ounce adrift was his Anglers World team mate Ian Walker, who had 3lb 12oz of small roach on pole and caster caught from peg two in the pumper.

Third was Clive Stokes (Armley) with an all roach 3lb 5oz catch taken on long rod and maggot from the peg below the winner.

Others weights: Roger Ellis (Normark) 2-14-0; Chris Jewitt (Anglers World) 2-11-0; Neil Webster (York) 2-10-8

Team competition: Normark 76; Anglers World and Armley both 66; Abbey Match 52; York 51; Dick Clegg Bradford 50; Leeds 37; Castleford 17

League positions: Normark 29pts; Armley 26; Anglers World 25; Dick Clegg Bradford 22; York 18; Abbey Match 15; Leeds 10; Castleford 5

The 33 peg Raker Lakes match was won by organiser Paul Kozyra (Anglers Corner) with three carp for 11lb 2oz. Drawn to fish from peg 21 he offered red maggot at 16 metres over caster.

Other weights: Paul Connelley (Tricast Calder) 8-10-0; Stef Huntington (Hull) 5-14-0; Craig Thompson (Dick Clegg Ossett) 4-2-0

The 83 entry open match on the Ure at Ripon was won by to Ian Lumb (Durham) with the surprising (given the cold, clear river) weight of 55lb.

Drawn to fish from an unfancied peg in the Willow Garth run-off above North Bridge he took all his 20 chub on waggler and caster in the second half of the contest.

Paul Wood (Airborough) was below Hutton Beck Mouth where he fished stick float and maggot to net 11 chub plus grayling for his 36-14-0

Other weights: Cliff Lofthouse (Ripon) 31-12-0; Richard Sowerby (Ripon) 17-7-0; Albert Heaps (Leeds) 13-14-0; John Allerton (Tricast) 11-15-0

It was same peg, different fish on the Ouse at Hunters Lodge, with peg 221 taking the spoils again in the 52 peg Hirst Tackle open match.

Steve Smith (Airborough) found roach tempting 70 to 8oz on long rod and maggot under a 'topper' float.

Dave Harris (Daiwa Cleveland ) was three pegs downstream and employed the same tactics for his all roach 9-6-0.

Other weights: Ian Bates (Hirst Tackle) and Dave Pollit (Normark) both 7-3-0; Trevor Hewitt (Hirst Tackle) 5-7-0; Steve Pearson (Normark) 5-6-0.

Scarborough Rock Anglers win trophy

by Trevor Dale

There was much relief on the faces of all those who took part in the Bell Trophy team event on Sunday. After weeks of very few fish the cod have finally shown up.

Scarborough Rock Anglers lifted the superb trophy with their 19lb catch, all codling.

Last year's winners South Cliffe Angling Club just missed out on taking pole position due to their aggregate weight per person being slighter lower due to a higher number in their team.

Heaviest bag on the day went to Ray Macklison with an eight fish for 16lb.

Ken Middlemass from Whitby took the heaviest individual fish, a cod of 6lb from Flinton's north of Scarborough.

The north west winds gave the sea much needed light and with it brought in the cod, with most marks producing fish.

The number of team members was down due to some Yorkshire regulars fishing the big Tynemouth Open match on the same day.

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