SPRO Lincoln Whisby angler John Turner wins latest round of Rilmac Winter League

The penultimate round of the Rilmac Winter League was held at the weekend.

Due to the recent poor form in some of the higher sections on the roadside, the match this week was split with six sections on the roadside stretch and four sections at Odder.

While we have not seen much rainfall over the last week or so the anglers turned up on the bank and were surprised to find the canal a really strange colour.

Fortunately, this did not deter the fish from feeding and most anglers had a reasonable day's sport.

It was SPRO Lincoln Whisby angler John Turner who finished in first place. John drew peg 47 at Odder and after catching a few roach on bloodworm decided to try his luck on lobworm.

This proved to be a good move as John eventually caught four perch, the biggest being a fine specimen of 2½lb on this method.

John backed this up with about four pound of roach on bloodworm and finished the day with 10lb.

The runner-up position went to consistent Fossdyke angler Phil Turner (Whisby A). Phil was drawn at the end peg 59 at Odder and fed several lines across the canal and caught more than 60 good-sized roach on bloodworm and joker to finish the day with 8lb 10oz. Alistair Ogilvie shared third position with Jamie Osgodby (Garbolino/Harrions Lincs County AC).

Alistair, who was also fishing for the Whisby A team drew peg 52 at Odder and fished bunches of bloodworm on his hook to take a mainly perch catch of 8lb 7oz.

Jamie, who was fishing at peg 58, also had roach and perch to bloodworm but bolstered his weight with a couple of larger perch on lobworm.

The best weight on the roadside stretch was 8lb which was recorded by consistent canal regular Steve Winters from peg 19.

On the day it was another consistent performance from Garbolino/Harrisons Lincs County that took the honours with 42 points. SPRO Lincoln Whisby were second with 39 points.

Although mathematically they can still be beaten, it would take a complete collapse by the Lincs County team not to win the title next week.

For more angling news see today's Lincolnshire Echo.