A common carp of 7.12.0 taken on the cast of the day gave Newman Scott's Peter Nixon victory during the second round of the Shotton and District Spring Series.

Fishing off peg 32 on Shotton Pond, Peter had two carp in the net on spicy meat before landing the all-important specimen on feeder and cat meat to finish with a total weight of 17.1.0.

At the next peg, Derek Fox of Eden Meadows had more fish but of a smaller stamp and slipped into runner up spot netting 4 carp a tench and 2.0.0 of small rudd for his 15.2.0.

At Carlton Miniott the 121 big turnout provided Map Elton's Dean Smith with another bumper payday during Woodlands regular slot on Saturday.

Divided between all the match lakes except Kestrel, Dean demonstrated his skill yet again hammering home an all carp bag of 65.0.0 on a day when backing weights were excellent.

Fishing Mallard 2, a few pegs away from the scene of his record breaking catch of 127.6.0 just 7 days before, Dean included a tremendous common of 12.0.0 going across on the long pole and pellet. Best of the rest came off Dragonfly Lake. Island cover proved crucial as commons to 8.0.0 fell to the long pole pellet combination for Leeds Loonies Dave Waffen who weighed in 58.10.0 followed by Andy Dargue of Team Shimano Quaker 57.0.0 and Paul Newman Quaker Tackle 56.14.0 Wednesday: Kestrel Partridge & Skylark Lakes (80 rods) 1 M Coyne (Map Elton) 67.13.0; 2 D Smith (Map Elton) 55.7.0; 3 P Eastwood (Calder Anglers) 46.10.0.

At Raker Lakes Wheldrake Paul Stead of JT Rodgers emerged the winner during Sunday's Match staged on Horseshoe Lake.

Opting for a far bank approach Paul located plenty of carp off peg 18. Fishing pole and meat and loose feeding caster resulted in a good bag of small carp totalling 48.3.0.

Meanwhile Stuart Holmes of Tight Lines sandwiched between two JT Rodgers men did just the opposite.

Working close in off peg 4, Stuart tempted all his carp from under a tree on pole and corn enough for runner up spot with 32.10.0 from Jim Pearson 28.2.0.

Easter Festival winner John McGarrell continued his devastating form finishing top dog during the Oaks Sessay Open.

The Map Elton regular on Maple Lake's peg 8 left arch-rival and teamate Dean Smith comfortably behind putting 46.4.0 onto the scales. Presenting the pole at 13 metres to the far bank carp up to 2.8.0 responded to the pellet throughout.

It was more of the same on peg 54 as Dean caught 37.12.0 hotly pursued by Cleveland Angling Centre's Dave Harris 37.8.0.

Trout round-up

Leighton Reservoir - a huge rainbow of 17.0.0 grabbed the limelight during an action packed week when Durham's Steve Mitchell grassed the season's best so far.

Venue regular John Harker of Northallerton also got amongst the monsters landing another heavyweight to the size of 14.0.0. 242 anglers - 941 trout. 70 fish over 3.0.0. Small dry flies black beetles and muddlers tops. Blackton 150 rods - 493 trout.

Eaglescliffe's John Spence landed a rainbow of 10.0.0 while the best bag totalling 32.8.0 went to K Spark of Haltwhistle using vivas presented on an intermediate line to tempt 6 rainbows in the 4 - 6.0.0 bracket. Fontburn - big story came when 10 year old Georgina Armstrong from Embleton landed the week's best a rainbow of 10.12.0. The hard fighting specimen nearly pulled the youngster in as her delighted father netted the memorable fish that accepted legered orange powerbait in the margins off the North shore at the nature reserve boundary.

623 rods - 1543 trout.

Derwent - 668 rods - 2185 rainbows best 8.6.0. 11 limit bags. Best patterns Dawson's olive, tadpole and black fritz. Tunstall - Rod average 3 - best bag taken by Martin Watson of Consett while the biggest fish a rainbow of 5.4.0 was grassed by Billingham's Tom Scorer. Black and green montanas, black and green tadpoles along with Kate McLarens delivering the majority of fish. Venue stocked fortnightly. Grassholme - 433 rods - 1207 trout. Browns and rainbows to 5.0.0. 35 - 8 fish limit bags. Scaling Dam - 262 rods - 579 trout. Rainbows to 6.4.0. South Shore and East End the hotspots. Fritz lures and Dawson's olive fished on slow sinking lines most productive method. Keilder - 208 anglers - 449 rainbows. W Wade weighed in the largest fish of the season so far a rainbow of 6.8.0 from the South abutment area.

Jubilee Lakes Redworth: Seven double figured rainbows headed by a tremendous specimen of 18.8.0 tamed on a red and black buzzer by Bill Newby of Fencehouses. Buzzers and damsels tops - rod average 3.6.