THE region's rivers remain high and coloured but anglers are finding fish, though not in huge numbers.

Salisbury Angling Club's match on the River Nadder on Sunday found the water bank high and flowing fast so some areas were difficult to fish because of the current. Once again the favourite swims below Harnham Mill proved to the best with Paul Coulbeck winning the day with a bag of 11lb 13oz made up mainly of dace.

There was a tie for second place between Andy Pratton, fishing Brunel Road and Ray Ridgers, on the Deanery Meadow, both of whom banked chub, Pratton five for 11lb and Ridgers six for 11lb. In fourth place was Malc Pepperill, who caught 9lb 9oz from below Harnham Mill.

Pike angler, Chris Clarke, tried his luck on the main carrier at the London AA Britford fishery and landed one of 18lb plus a couple of jack pike. The old river section is still flowing fast but there are stretches where the current is slower and these are producing bags of chub, grayling and dace. A heavy float is a must to cope with the pace.

The fishery's main carrier and the navigation carrier are both suffering from shoals of hungry minnows but some swims have less of them and from these swims anglers have had chub to 4lb and roach to 1lb.

The mild weather means many stillwater fisheries are fishing quite well. At Witherington Farm Fishery a weekend pairs match on both the inner and outer Snake Lakes attracted 36 anglers and was won with just under 50lb. Carp are feeding in isolated pockets and silver fish are feeding reasonably well. Both the Snake lakes and the fishery's other lakes are also producing a few decent-sized perch ranging in size from 1lb to 1lb 8oz or so.

Other fisheries report few anglers about but those that are out and about are catching bags of roach, rudd, skimmers with the odd carp and larger bream.