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Tylers responded favourably to the warm weather as all four lakes fished well. Wagtail was responsible for quality carp catches – bream and tench – where pellet, boilies, paste and corn all worked well.

Horseshoe Lake served up excellent catches throughout the week, including double figures of carp, quality perch and bream.

Meanwhile, Ash and Willow Lakes produced carp from most areas again with pellet, paste, corn and luncheon meat all proving to be effective.

Match results

Jim Curtis won the Thursday Open at Redbridge Silver Fish Lake with a 26lbs 7ozs haul. Billy Everett was second with 24lbs 10ozs and Dicky Carr (20lbs) was third.

At the Hatfield Thursday Club on Oakford Lakes, 13 fished, but Peter Bullock came out on top with 164lbs.

Ray Nicholls was second with 146lbs, Reg Wickham was third with 118lbs, John Ellis was fourth with 98lbs, Dave Tosley was fifth with 91lbs, Jim Ross was sixth with 90lbs, Bob Mate was seventh with 87lbs and Peter Jones was eighth with 83lbs.

At the Saturday Open at Redbridge, Billy Mariner switched to worm and found some quality fish to boost his winning weight to 23lbs 4ozs.

Second was J Young with 15lbs 8ozs, third was Kenny Farrell with 13lbs 4ozs, fourth was M Maison with 12lbs 9ozs, fifth was J Davies with 10lbs 12ozs and sixth was D Paterson with 9lbs 4ozs.

The Saturday Open at Tylers on Horseshoe Lake was a 37-peg match and top weight went to Mark Brown, on peg 53, with 167lbs – fishing pellet, shallow, at 13 metres.

In second was Dave Sellick with 126lbs 10ozs, third was Steve Larder with 122lbs 8ozs, fourth was J Taylor with 102lbs 8ozs, fifth was Lee Edwards with 109lbs 12ozs, sixth was Mickey Hood with 97lbs, seventh was Alec Roberts with 95lbs and eighth was Rob Bishop with 93lbs 12ozs.

Maldon AS concessionary anglers fished A12 Cuton Lake and Albert Kitchen emerged victorious with 31lbs 10ozs 8dms. Keith Leverett was second with 31lbs 5ozs, Dave Earney was third with 27lbs 11ozs, Don Carter was fourth with 26lbs 5ozs, Bill Clayden was fifth with 16lbs 11oz and Brian Webber was sixth with 16lbs 1oz.

The Sunday open at Redbridge proved a close match with Rick Grover taking a couple of bonus fish on the feeder for a catch of 13lbs 14ozs to win.

Second was B Davies with 11lbs 2ozs, third was G Bullock with 11lbs, fourth was S Adams with 10lbs 1oz, fifth was A Griffiths with 9lbs 2ozs and sixth was G Eales with 8lbs 15ozs.

Match diary

For information on the Saturday Open at Tylers Common on the Horseshoe Lake ring Bobby Wager on 07970 258737.

For details of the Thursday Open at A12 Cuton match lake ring Scott on 07946 847703 or Neil on 07958 336691.

Redbridge are running Tuesday matches – draw 4.30pm, fishing 5.30pm until 8.30pm. For further details ring 020 8551 5663,

West Mersea tide-table

Today 4.50am and 5.01pm, tomorrow 5.31am and 5.45pm, Friday 6.22am and 6.41pm, Saturday 7.24am and 8.01pm, Sunday 8.46am and 9.29pm, Monday 10.20am and 10.48pm, Tuesday 11.31am and 11.55pm.

Tide differences

Southend +35minutes, Clacton -10, Burnham-on-Crouch +20, Maldon +35, Walton-on-the-Naze -20, Dover -55, Tilbury +1:10, London Bridge +1:50, Felixstowe Pier -35, Dungeness -1:00, Lowestoft -2:35.

 Coarse, sea and fly fishing anglers can report their catches and match results on lakes, beach, boat, rivers and canals to Keith Leverett on 01621 869728 or 07836 327843 or e-mail keith.leverett@btinternet.com