Casting into the River Adur near the airport at Shoreham, members of the Shoreham club had the fourth and final round of their winter singles league over three hours.

The river was clear and flat.

No round fish showed, but a catch of flounders was headed by one of 40cm (estimated 1lb 8oz) by Steve Dellar and Steve and Ali Harvey also had joint-second best on 32cm.

Dellar was top of the eight with four flounders for 125cm and 145 points, Mike Perfect had three for 78cm and 93 points, Keven Henshaw three for 71cm and 86 points and John Grinstead three for 67cm and 82 points.

Perfect won the league on six points (two first placings and two runners-up) followed by Dellar who had 12 points including two wins while third was John Grinstead with 13 points.

Baiting with peeler crab, those who went on the landing stage hoping for eels or dogfish had a lean four hours in the second round of Worthing's Head Cup. Top of the 12 was Alan Irbens who was using lugworm or white rag and got 20 rockling and two flounders for 4lb 6oz with his rockling of 5oz the best round fish.

Chris Snow had three flounders and one rockling for 2lb 6 1/4oz, Terry Elkin 11 rockling for 1lb 12oz, John Dean two flounders for 1lb 11 1/2oz and Doug Herbert 1lb 10 3/4oz. Glenn Riley's 1lb 4 1/4oz flounder taken from the stage was the best flat fish.

The Jack Frost Tackle (Crawley) team, who won the Billings-hurst Winter League, enjoyed a five day trip to the White Acres coarse complex at Newquay as their prize.

They are just back after a successful trip, although the weather was pretty grotty.

Steve Muggeridge, the owner of the Jack Frost Tackle, Chris Siddall, Nick Ardley, Barry Wheeler, Simon Clarke, Lenny Wells and 17-year-old Liam Wheeler (son of Barry) made up the squad that travelled west.

On the first day on Pollawyn lake Clarke had 20 carp to 8lb on groundbait feeder with sweetcorn. Nick Ardley had 22 carp and three tench on feeder and worm, Muggeridge 25lb of skimmers on a 13-metre pole and Liam Wheeler 20 carp on corn and worm.

On the second day they fished Sycamore where Wells had 15 carp to 8lb on corn or cat food and quality roach. Clarke had 14 carp to 11lb, Barry Wheeler carp and perch on sweetcorn and Liam Wheeler 27 carp.

A ghost carp of 15lb 8oz highlighted Liam Wheeler's catch on the third day at Bolingy lake and he had 19 others. Clarke had 25 carp to 9lb, Wells 15 carp to 10lb and Ardley 30 carp.

The fourth day was a match and the best Jack Frost Tackle return was 12lb 2oz by Barry Wheeler. The match was won with 75lb 8oz.

The fifth and final day was a rover in the rain. Wells got 38lb of carp in the first hour and then nothing, Siddall had 44lb of carp while the match was won with 122lb.

Fireman Steve Grove extinguished the challenges of his Bognor Regis Amateur Angling Society colleagues in eight of the boat cup competitions and his wife Linda got in on the act by winning the Hall Cup ladies championship.

Steve's top success came when he took the Page Cup for being club champion and the other cups he won were for heaviest one day catch of bream, best specimen fish, most specimens (jointly with Mick Greenway), heaviest aggregate of pout whiting and pollock and heaviest bag of fish. He even got a trophy for being winner of the first match fished.

Worthing resident Mick Greenway picked up seven trophies at the presentations night. He was runner-up boat champion, heaviest aggregate of bass and of species excluding bream, bass cup, knock-out cup and Fredericks Trophy for heaviest bass.

Four others were allowed a look-in. John Elcott was the winner of the heaviest aggregate of bream, Fred Quilliam had the heaviest agg-regate of skate, Rick Smith the heaviest aggregate from a non-planing boat and Tony Alderton did a double with the heaviest aggregate of conger and flat fish.

Steve Doncaster picked up the Maginnis Cup as pier champion and Paul Tiney the Phillips Cup as shore champion.