Crawley team Jack Frost, the defending champions, have been frozen out of the Billingshurst Winter League.

A miserable fourth round performance at Shillinglee Park Mill left them in joint fifth place.

Grayshott Tackle Match Group had two blanks out of their team of eight yet still amassed an impressive 54 points to be clear winners of the round. The next meeting is on March 4.

Scores:

Pulborough Carringdale Blue had 40, Pulborough Carringdale Black 39, Billingshurst Carringdale Green 36 and Jack Frost and Back Arun both 35.

Positions:

Grayshott 193, Pulborough Blue 165, Jack Frost 152, Billingshurst Carringdale Red 140, Pulborough Black 124, Billingshurst Green 122, Passies 120, Back Arun 119, Diamond Glass, Abu Arun 111.

Individual winner was Neil Boniface, of Grayshott, at Peg 80. He had four bream on groundbait feeder tipped with maggot for 12lb 4oz.

On the Dam Wall at Peg 28 was Worthing resident Paul Holden, of Pulborough Blue, who had two bream and skimmers on pole and maggot for 10lb 10oz.

Paul Williams of Grayshott at Peg 10 had 8lb 11oz of skimmers on groundbait feeder and mattot while Brian Norman (Pulborough Black) had two bream and skimmers on pinkies for 7lb 15 1/2oz.

Ray White of Abu Arun, 7lb of skimmers. Normally bags up to 40lb are taken at Shillinglee but although a few tench showed, the water was too coloured and cold.

Excellent bream dominated the Isfield match on Broadhurst Lake, Horsted Keynes with Gordon Wilkins having seven (best 8lb) for a 34lb 1oz winning bag.

Second among the 17 in attendance was Steve Hughes who had 27lb 4oz with his best bream 7lb 1oz and third came Terry Smith with two bream for 10lb 8oz. The best bream of the match was 8lb 4oz by John Haines.

Only four fish in the Haywards Heath match at Gold Bridge where the river Ouse was still pushing through one foot above normal level.

Junior member David Larby had two bream (best 3lb 10oz) for a 6lb 12oz top bag while John White had one chub of 2lb 6oz, Gaffer Steer one chubb of 2lb and Roland Smith a roach of 4oz. These fish came in the last 20 minutes.

At River Park sport was bad after a succession of overnight frosts. Fernhurst (15lb 5 1/2oz) won the triangular match with Chichester on 14lb 8oz and Stedham 11lb 4oz. After the six hours the top bag was just one fish by Fernhurst's Terry Atkinson, a 10lb 10oz carp.

Copthorne's competitions secretary, Peter Collinson, was pleased to record the results of his club's match at Rowfant Mill as he personally led the field of 12 who had fished for six hours with one tench, two good skimmers and a bucketful of bits totalling 11lb 6oz.

Two tench and bits put Dave Whitehouse in second place on 10lb 5oz while Don Vallance had one tench and bits for 8lb 1oz and Ray Thayre 4lb 5oz.

Seventeen out of the 22 who fished the East Preston Royal British Legion five hour match on the local beach caught fish but the top bag, by Mike Perfect, was only 10 flounders (best 11 3/4oz) and rockling for 2lb 13 1/2oz.

Members of Billingshurst were delighted to be back on the river Arun at Okehurst where the winner was Dennis Light who had a carp of 8lb 8oz on feeder fished maggot and a bream of 5lb.