History repeats for Kev

On a formidable lake with winning weights possible from most pegs, the fish in this lake are taking on some size.

Last visit saw Kev draw peg 27 and take the spoils with 127lb 7oz – so once he pulled out 27 again, it was obvious the league leader would take some beating.

Kev was soon into fish, but he had the added pressure of the new 50lb limit net rule at Portland so could he had to get his split right between nets.

This proved to be no problem, weighing in with 117lb 10oz and three nets, all taken on pellet and paste across shallow and down the edge.

Back into contention for a top place in the league is Dave Sewell, who drew peg 12 and fished a cracking match, also placing fish into his third net to take 108lb 13oz to the scales, taking most of his quarry down the edge.

Current league champion Kyle Wood was to be the third man to do the ton.

Fishing from fancied peg 19 over the far bank shallow and down the edge, he took 101lb.

With some very good back up weights, which on their day would have won most matches, there was a total combined weight for the day of 1,283lb 11oz.

James Maude AC, Portland Waters Canal, Saturday 28th June, 6hrs, 24 fished): Kev Brown 117lb-10 oz peg 27, Dave Sewell 108lb-13oz peg 12, Kyle Wood 101lb peg 19, Dave Lilliman 90lb-1oz peg 17, Tony Smith 81lb-1oz peg 8, Gary Butcher 79lb peg 14, Pete Jackson 76lb-11oz peg 11,

Dave Johnson 68lb-8oz peg 6, Sean Hanrahan 65lb-7oz peg 18, Ian Carr 54lb-15oz peg 26, Billy Harrison 51lb-3oz peg 9, Shaun Green 50lb-6oz peg 23, Pete Lambert 49lb-3oz peg 1, Paul Davies 44lb peg 21 (guest), Brian Cox 40lb-12oz peg 24, Nick Heath 39lb-11oz peg 30, Alan Slack 34lb-10oz peg 7, Dean Collingham 32lb peg 3, Terry Cheeseman 28lb-10oz peg 28, Terry Wiggins 27lb-9oz peg 5, Paul Skeldon 20lb-9oz peg 20, Lenny Burton 19lb-2oz peg 25, Lawrence Butcher 2lb-8oz peg 2, Johnny Evans DNW peg 16.