In the Society’s most recent club match held on the Sportsground, 28 anglers recorded over 170lb of fish which were mainly Roach. It was the first in the series of the Houghton Cup and the first rover of the match calender. After drawing last out of the bag, Austin Battell didn’t fancy his chances of getting one of the more fancied swims so decided to walk the furthest from the draw to a spot two other anglers looked at and then passed it by. Fishing 5 metres to hand and starting with maggot as hookbait, it was difficult to get through the hundreds of Bleak present. So after a change of rig and change of bait, Roach became more frequent to the net with several fish to 14oz included. This continued for most of the match and Austin ended up  building a very impressive match winning weight of 21lb 7oz. Second spot with another impressive bag of Roach was Tony Hyland with 13lb 13oz followed in third spot by Paul Reddy with 11lb 15oz. The top 6 spots were all made up of double figure bags with plenty of other good back up weights.