with Roland Batten

Angling: SALISBURY Angling Club member George Horton has been crowned a double champion after winning his second big match in less than a month when he fished the club's Peters-finger lakes on Sunday.

George banked 10lb 8oz made up of three tench and a bream to win the Stuart Casey Cup, which will stand on his sideboard along with the Fred Pearson Trophy which he landed three weeks ago at Steeple Langford with 18lb 15oz of tench and bream.

The trophy matches are two of the club's annual matches and it is rare for one angler to complete the double.

On Saturday, Withering-ton Farm Fishery held one of its regular open matches and the inner Snake Lake produced a winning bag of 54lb for Gary Etheridge.

Barry James was runner-up with 46lb and Julian Heaven was third with 38lb.

Weights were similar across at Waldens Farm Fishery on Sunday for the match on Deacons Lake where Gordon Tedd bank-ed 35lb 10oz, Bill Pragnell 28lb and Allie Turner 23lb.

Big pike and big carp dominate the news from Waldens' other lakes.

Ian Turner took the week's top pike from Abbots at 20lb 4oz on smelt. Gareth Brown fished Abbots and took three carp at 14lb 8oz, 14lb and 13lb while Tim Davis had 89lb of carp from peg 50 - all on meat.

Bishops Lake has produced pike ranging from 6lb to 17lb 8oz mainly on smelt and one surprise was a 14lb 8oz ghost carp which also fell for a sprat set for pike.

A net of 40lb of bream for Matt Knight is the highlight from Monks Lake with most pegs yielding 25lb a sitting.

Some heavyweight bags have been taken at Long-house Fishery at Teffont where all lakes are fishing well.

Peter Douglas fishing Wood Lake had 158lb of fish to the pole and pellet averaging between 5lb and 7lb and made up of ghosts and commons with some small koi. Steve Perks used chopped worm and maggot to pick up 62lb of fish which included roach to 1lb 8oz, tench around 4lb 10oz and perch and crucians topping 2lb.

Some lakes and the region's rivers are suffering from low water, but after Monday's torrential rain they should have better levels, albeit only temporarily.

Trout fishing at Chalke Valley fly fishery has been excellent over the last week with some good morning and evening rises.

Brown trout have been moving well in the spring-fed water spurned into action by the clear waters, warm temperatures and abundant fly life.