Nigel Shipman takes latest win at Sherwood Forest Fishery

Nigel Chapman eased to victory in the Wednesday Open at Sherwood Forest Fishery.

With a white over frost at the start and a flat calm sunny day it was always going to be hard on this shallow lake.

Nigel Shipman took the Wednesday Open win at Sherwood Forest Fishery.

placeholder image — Nigel Shipman took the Wednesday Open win at Sherwood Forest Fishery.

Shipman had peg 28 drawn for him and he fished the pellet waggler cast to the lily pads and the pole and pellet landing carp -5lb in his 74lb 9oz winning weight.

The results were 1st Nigel Shipman Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 28, 74-9-0; 2nd Pete Hodgetts Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 25, 66-10-0; 3rd Mick Langton Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 22, 62-0-0; 4th Chris Graves Phil’s Bait & Tackle peg 32, 37-5-0; 5th Geoff Mawby Batchelors AC peg 9, 36-4-0.