A CHEESE sandwich was the magic ingredient used by Tony Booth to win last Sunday's competition at Wold View fisheries.

In howling gale-force winds, I was fishing on the bronze lake.

Using the pole was definitely out of the question at the start of the match – and not really viable until the last hour.

But I could not believe what I was seeing next to me. Booth was casting not too far off my bomb line.

My tip laid motionless, while Booth's rod did not even have chance to settle – it was being dragged around within minutes of it being cast out.

I was very puzzled as to why he was doing so well. I was flabbergasted by the answer I got.

He was offering a sandwich of delights – bread and cheese.

The smell of the cheese must have made the fish come out of their hiding holes in search of the aroma.

Other anglers just watched in amazement as Booth did the business – despite having a disastrous start when the wind blew his pole off the rollers and it snapped.

But, as it turned out, the pole was not required and the feeder rod did its trick.

Booth was doing very well and his partner, Chris Mack, was doing well on the gold lake.

Back on bronze, Dave Ringwood had to wait for the fish to arrive and he found that they were actually closer in.

Alec Ward was in the corner peg and he was catching the carp from the off, but they seemed to fade off as the match went on.

At the end, it was clear that Booth was top man and he weighed in with a staggering 61.12lb.

Next was Ringwoood, from peg 16, he had 28.4lb. Third was Ward from peg 10 with 21.8lb.

Over on the gold lake, it was the multi-talented all-round angler Bill Sheppard who was showing the rest of the anglers the way.

He was in scintillating form with and impressive display of fishing the bomb.

But he should have not had things all his own way as Ian Thomsen was getting fish, but then losing them on a snag. He was having a nightmare, losing lots of quality fish that would cost him dearly.

The in-form Mack was, as usual, finding plenty of fish.

In the end, Sheppard's class shone through with 51.8lb. Second was Mack with 43.8lb and third was Thomsen with 36.10lb.

The results have made the pairs very interesting. Booth and Mack are way out in front with 111lb ahead of second-placed Sheppard and Ward's 75lb.

I mentioned Tetney Lock in last week's column.

Well, as promised, I returned armed with the right tackle and had a very enjoyable two-hour session.

Using the longer pole, the float soon disappeared and a roach was soon into the net. This continued for the couple of hours I was there.

On one occasion, I was bringing in a roach and the elastic suddenly stretched further as a possible pike had grabbed the smaller fish as it was coming in.

The result was that the smaller fish was not on the hook when it reached the bank.

It possibly ended up as a pike's tea.

Another angler there – who had been there most of the day – had some real quality fish.

Back on the ponds, and Saltfleetby was back in action on the main lake.

Nathan Watson, who seems to prefer the bigger lakes, took the honours again and also the golden peg money.

He was fishing off peg nine and he had 32.14lb.

At Frog Hall, anglers had to contend with the wind, but again there were very good weights for this time of year.

Alex Lovesay was top man. Now in his seventies, he ended up with a total weight of 19.12lb off peg 31.