SALISBURY Angling Club's final match of the 2015/16 season on Sunday was a feast for some but a famine for others.

The competition was held on the club's large Steeple Langford lake in cold, cloudy conditions with an easterly wind and while two anglers on adjacent pegs found they had shoals of fish in their swim, many others found hardly any and some none at all.

Lee Goodfellow won the match with a dozen or so bream for a creditable weight of 52lb 12oz. Nearby was Ray Ridgers and he had two good-sized tench and a selection of bream for 33lb 2oz. Then there was a big gap with Andrew Allen weighing-in 5lb 8oz for third place.

The easterly wind and bright sunshine did little to help anglers visiting London AA's Britford fishery on the final day of the season. After a successful weekend when big bags of fish were caught, about 70 anglers turned up on the Monday for the last effort of the season to find wall-to-wall sunshine and a blustery, cold wind. During the day few fish were caught from either the navigational channel, the main carrier or the old river and as the sun set some caught a few roach around the 1lb mark, some chub to 2lb and a few grayling, but it was a disappointing final day. The new river season re-opens open on Thursday, June 16.

At Witherington Farm Fishery, an open silver fish match on Barnmoor Lake during the week proved to be successful with most of the competitors catching. Johnny Gray won the day with 33lb 4oz, Dave Moody was runner-up with 19lb and Steve Pomeroy was third with 14lb 13oz.

In the Fordingbridge and Ringwood area, Hucklesbrook Lake is producing several double-figure carp with the best at 28lb while Whitehill Lake fishery near Verwood, is providing fishermen with some nice bags of roach to 1lb 8oz or so.