The Walsall and Tame Valley canals at Ocker Hill, Tipton, showed good form for the fourth round of the HanKat League and most of the 105 competitors (21 teams) got among the fish.

Drennan North West team’s Darren Frost was the pacesetter with 10-4-3 from the second peg on the Tame Valley section. A Welsh international, he did well to whip out small roach with bloodworms.

Shakespeare team  man Rob Middleton was second with a 9-8-0 similar effort but he also hooked quite a few fish on casters.

Walsall-based Rob Quinn (Shakespeare) was third with a 7-5-4 best bag from the Walsall sections where he used bloodworms for small roach.

Another Shakespeare team man, Paul Bick, was next with 7-2-8 from the Moors Mill Lane area and he too relied upon bloodworms.

Daiwa Trentmen team men Jason Serwener and Darren Bickerton completed the  prize list both with 6-13-10.

Top team on the day Daiwa Trentmen scored six penalty points over Shakespeare 12, Fox Match Tipton VDE 15, Drennan North West Black 17 and Drennan North West Gold 18.

Current League places are Shakespeare Super Team 61, Daiwa Trentmen 71, Saints A and Drennan North West Black both 73, HanKat 78 and Shakespeare Match 79.

The seventh round of the Bilston Angling Individual League took place along the Bladon Road sections of the Staffs Worcester canal at Tettenhall where Craig Cope ran out an easy winner.

Drawn at peg number eight  on the bend near the allotments, he whipped out 7-4-0 of roach with bloodworm feed and hookbait.

Wilf Kneller’s (Midleisure) second best 4-3-0 was made up with roach and perch taken with the same method.

Nick Hooton (Bilston) was next with 2-6-5 while section winners were Mel Wood 1-10-4, Martin Spruce 1-7-12 and Mark Weston 0-3-6.

Bilston-based  Dennis Sumner and Carl Westwood wrapped up the latest Stoke City A A’s open fixture with the top two catch weights.

Sumner’s 8-7-1 surprise haul of mostly perch came from a peg next to  the old railway bridge  where he offered casters at a spot underneath the bridge.

Westwood’s 6-5-4 consisted of 60 small roach taken  on squatt maggots plus half a dozen better roach  on casters came from the end peg in the village.

Third-placed Fred Cheetham (Eclipse) weighed in 6-14-0 of small roach plus a few perch caught with punched bread and casters. Stafford expert Tony Keeling (Eclipse ) was fourth with 4-0-8 over Dave Williams Isaac Walton, Stafford, 3-3-14 and Rod Brennan (Stourport) 3-2-15.

Wolverhampton canal expert Paul Turner made his mark in two successive visits to the Birmingham Fazeley at Curdworth. 

The Fox Match Tipton team member finished second on both occasions on days when sport was much poorer than usual. 

Winner of the first event was local lad Tony Robinson with 3-6-0. 

He caught all small roach with punched bread from peg number 72.  Turner’s 3-1-0 off the next peg 69 also consisted of small roach but he used squatt maggots. 

Steve Brown (Black Country Tackle) was third with 2-9-0 over Harold Tolton (Long Eaton) 2-8-0 and Carl Taylor (Stirrup Cup) 2-0-12.

The second event on the same stretch was spoiled to some extent by a long procession of boats but winner Alan Wright was happy with his 4-6-12 after a long journey from Derby.

His catch consisted of small roach and perch taken with both squatt maggots and casters.  Turner’s 2-15-4 consisted of small roach again taken on squatt maggots plus a much larger 1 lb sample caught with a caster. Other leading scorers were Craig Lewis (3 M’s) 2-8-14, Harold Tallon (Long Eaton) 2-8-3 and Wolverhampton’s Paul Ross (Shakespeare) 2-4-5.

Bilston-based Dennis Sumner and Carl Westwood wrapped up the latest Stoke City A A’s open fixture with the top two catch weights. 

Sumner’s 8-7-1 haul of mostly perch came from a peg next to the old railway bridge where he offered casters at a spot under the bridge. Westwood’s 6-5-4 consisted of 60 small roach taken on squatt maggots plus half a dozen better roach on casters came from the end peg in the village.

Third-placed Fred Cheetham (Eclipse) weighed in 6-14-0 of small roach plus a few perch caught with punched bread and casters. 

Stafford expert Tony Keeling (Eclipse) was fourth with 4-0-8 over Dean Williams (Isaac Walton Stafford) 3-3-14 and Rob Brennan (Stourport) 3-2-15.

The boathouse and bandstand sections on Hatherton lake proved to be a bit hit and miss for the latest Walsall Arboretum open match. Although it required 3-12-0 to make the prize list quite a few competitors caught very little.

Winner with 8-6-0 was Brownhills-based Clive James who drew peg 24 at the back of the bandstand.

Using a long pole he alternated maggots and casters to catch small bream and roach to six ounces.

Local lad Gary Beesley was second with 7-10-0 from peg nine where his similar 7-10-0 effort came to legered red maggots.