It was a wet afternoon last Tuesday week but at least the thunderstorms and heavy showers faded away in time for the Senior Schools match.

This was held on Horncastle Road and involved 43 youngsters from the major secondary schools in and around Boston.

The drain was in much better form than the equivalent fixture last year with much less weed to contend with.

There were no spectacular weights in the two hours allowed but there was the odd small bream and tench and plenty of small skimmers on those pegs between the cemetery and Rawsons Bridge.

William Lovell A retained the trophy, albeit with a totally different line up, which was Thomas Lomas, Zac Lomas and Joe Paton. Of those, Thomas contributed the lion's share as a bonus bream also helped him to the under-17s individual trophy, and brother Zac taking third place.

The under-14s category was again won by Ben Eldon who took a nice net of small fish from a peg between the two bridges – Rawsons and the railway that is.

Frazer Overton also landed a bonus fish and in doing so pulled the Haven High 2 team up into the runner-up position and completing the team result in a third place was Grammar School A with an all small fish catch.

Teams: William Lovell A 4kgs 450gms; 2 Haven High 2 2kgs 450gms; 3 Boston Grammer School A 1kg 800gms.

Under 14s: 1 Ben Eldon Giles 2 1kg 180gms; 2 David Gurton Grammer School A 1kg 150gms; 3 Leon Creasey Grammer School B 750gms.

Under 17s: 1 Thomas Lomas William Lovell A 2kgs 800gms; 2 Frazer Overton Haven High 2 1kg 700gms; 3 Zac Lomas William Lovell A 910gms.

The many prizes given out were donated by the Environment Agency, Boston Angling Centre and the Boston & District Angling Association.

Thanks were expressed to Norprint for the use of their car park, parents, guardians and teachers plus those volunteers who turned out to help make this its usual successful event.

Fishtoft AC left the rigours of open waterways for the relative comfort of private lakes on Sunday.

They paid a visit to Stirling Lake, which is part of the Bain Valley fisheries complex near Kirkby on Bain.

Being basically a silver fish lake most opted for the feeder and maggot approach for the target species which is large skimmers approaching the pound mark.

This tactic was well displayed by the top four at the very least as Jerry Clifton headed that list with over 30lbs, a couple of small carp to 2lbs to make up that weight.

He was closely followed by Ben Brighton and Nick Mummery who finished within ounces of each other, Ben getting the better of the battle for second.

1 Jerry Clifton 31lbs 8ozs; 2 Ben Brighton 27lbs 10ozs; 3 Nick Mummery 27lbs 4ozs; 4 Stan Stankvich 23lbs 8ozs.

Next Sunday S. Forty Foot Drain meet Cooks Lock 7am.

A few big skimmers kept Stickney AC on their toes at Ings Bridge on Sunday.

Four such fish to one and a half pounds gave Yappy Mountain the edge but to ensure victory a magnificent roach of some 2lbs was the icing on the cake.

Kevin Hunt returned a similar net of bream but had to settle for second around a pound down on the winner, Paul Wood taking third.

1 Yappy Mountain 8lbs; 2 Kevin Hunt 6lbs 14ozs; 3 Paul Wood 3lbs 15ozs.

A large bream was the icing on the cake for Janusz Kedzierski in the Monday evening sweep on the cemetery length.

In effect this was not needed to achieve victory as an 8lbs plus net of smaller fish was enough to beat Mark Cook into second spot.

Andy Dillamore and Brian Clark fought out a close contest on similar fish and, at the weigh in, were only separated by a mere half ounce, the verdict going Brian's way.

1 Janusz Kedzierski 13lbs; 2 Mark Cook 5lbs 3ozs; 3 Brian Clark 4lbs 6 ½ ozs; 4 Andy Dillamore 4lbs 6ozs. Next Monday meet Windsor Bank for 5.15pm draw.