THE Cormorants Club match fished at Longbridge Lakes saw great weights - especially as the competition followed several nights of frosts.

Clive Egerton drew the golden peg 34 on the canal worth £300 and duly won with a cracking 109lb 11oz bag of carp, tench and skimmers taken on the pole, pellet and corn.

Egerton was ahead of Pete Newman with 103lb 5oz and Steve Pomery on 99lb 10oz, which consisted of a 70lb bag of skimmers and tench plus three carp.

Others: Graham Maton 78lb 1oz and Simon Hambidge 77lb 3oz.

But the frosts did bite into results in the Saturday Open on Greenridge Farm where weights were lower than of late.

Dave Parvin was clear of the field in first place with 42lb 8oz of carp taken on the pole and pellet from peg ten on Canal 1. Way back in second place was Keith Theobald on 28lb 6oz from peg 18 on Canal 2, third Colin Stark with 23lb from peg 20 on Canal 2.

Others: Mick Kenny 21lb 4oz from peg 19 on Canal 2, Graham Tappenden 21lb from peg 4 on Canal 1 and Mark Brown 20lb 5oz from peg 5 on Canal 1.

Graham Tappenden was still showing good form with yet another win, taking 34lb 4oz of tench and skimmers from Stoneham Bottom Lake in the Stoneham Evening Series using the pole and waggler on peg 25.

Mick Kenny came a close second off the golden peg with three carp and tench for 31lb 8oz from peg 1. In third was Mark Brown on 22lb 14oz, fourth Chalkie White 18lb 14oz and fifth Karl Salvi 17lb 15oz. The golden peg is now worth £500 and this week sees the start of a second golden peg fund.

TVAC fished a club match on Nutsey Lake this week with Kev Downer taking 12 tench and roach on the pole, waggler and pellet to take first place easily on 51lb 11oz from Gordon Warner in second on 22lb 3oz. His catch consisted of four tench and roach on the waggler and maggot.

Third was Rob Hendry 17lb 15oz, fourth Alan Hillman 13lb 10oz, which included a cracking tench of 6lb 2oz. In fifth place Martin Kats 10lb 4oz and sixth Cliff Carbis 9lb 1oz.

AROUND THE LAKES

At Rookley Park on the Isle of Wight Tim Oatley took a lake record common of 23lb 14oz, plus mirrors of 20lb 6oz, 20lb 10oz, 22lb 10oz and 24lb 13oz.

And Andy Phillips took a personal best mirror of 20lb, Robin Gardner a 20lb 4oz leather.

Mark Pwzocki caught mirrors of 24lb 9oz and 25lb 10oz while Christian Horlock's mirrors weighed in at 21lb 4oz and 20lb 6oz. Paul Kent also took a personal best mirror of 31lb 7oz. On the Blackwater Syndicate Nick Pocock produced a new lake record mirror of 44lb along with fish of 21lb 12oz, 21lb 8oz, 27lb 8oz and 29lb 12oz.

John Stembridge took a personal best mirror of 31lb 6oz, Andy Liptrot mirrors of 23lb 2oz, 26lb 8oz, 27lb 4oz and 25lb 8oz, Chris Rackett fish of 20lb 4oz and 25lb 8oz and Wesley Karl 28lb 10oz.

Over at Monks Pool a new plus-40 came out at 41lb 10z, a personal best to Taffy Woodhouse.

Lee Petitt took an Isle of Wight record common of 35lb 14oz, plus mirrors of 37lb 10oz and 22lb 8oz. John Holton took a 35lb 4oz mirror.

Longbridge continues to fish well, with regular Dave Bradbeer from Southampton taking some good carp from peg 22. Eastleigh's David Martin fished peg 37 on pellet over loose fed pellet for three ghosties to 8lb 8oz and 14 other carp to 8lb.

Dave Wateridge's Waldens Farm complex saw Bishops Lake produce ghosts of 9lb 12oz and 11lb 8oz to Harry Smith of Lyndhurst from peg 68 on pellet over loose fed pellet.

On Monks Jeff Turner of Ringwood took a 38lb bag of chub from peg 20 above the bridge on double red maggot.

Popes produced carp to 8lb, plus tench, rudd and skimmers.

Deacons fished well for pleasure bags to 35lb on maggot, corn and pellet.

Sunday's match saw Mark Cannings run home well ahead with 73lb 12oz on peg 95 from Dave Parvin on 39lb off peg 103 and Alan Turner 21lb 10oz from peg 89.