Parker proves a Match for his Charity Open rivals

Venue expert, Stourbridge-based Sam Parker (Club 2000) eased to victory on Match peg 42 with 41-8-0 of carp to 6lb plus F1s around the 1½lb mark.

Parker fished the straight lead with bread at distance to the island, then poled pellet and bread in his left-hand margin.

Runner-up was James Turner (Alvechurch Fishery) who poled pellet at 11.5 metres from Brook peg 13 to scale 26-8-0 comprising of a few carp, boosted by F1s and mixed silvers.

Wassell Grove's own Rob Gandley initially pole-fished caster and worm out, then pellet for a few F1s, before swapping to caster on his right-hand edge line for 16lb of silvers, then across to the lily pads at 14.5 metres for more F1s.

He recorded 25-2-0 for third place on Match peg one. A total of £255 was raised for the hospital and MAP and Maver products were donated as prizes.

n Walsall-rod Neville Groves (Foster's) secured back-to-back wins at Moorlands Farm in Hartlebury over the weekend.

He landed Saturday's 28-peg Bank, Moors and Island Pools open event in style by finishing almost 100lb clear of his nearest adversary!

Pole-fishing pellet down the edges of Bank peg 21, Groves slid a magnificent 181-13-0 haul of carp to 10lb into his keepnets.

He left Iwan Mills (Robin's Timber) in second with smaller pellet-tempted lumps to 8lb for 83-14-0 from Bank peg 23.

Groves' second triumph came at Sunday's Meadow and Moors Pools open when he led the 31-strong field with an impressive 143-0-0 catch which included carp to 6lb and F1s in the 4lb class, collected on poled pellet in the margins of Moors peg 15.

A 105-5-0 weight of F1s to 3lb saw Ken Turner (Red Lion Earlswood) second on Moors peg 11.