LATEST ADDITIONS

Evesham Festival qualifying match results, 27th/28th July. Saturday, July 27thShakespeare Championship Qualifier1 Ian Sutherland (Land Rover) 8-7-0 (Peg 2)2 Gary Seadon (Evesham & District) 8-1-0 (Peg 64)3 Martyn Howard (Ringer Baits) 7-11-0 (Peg 10)4 Chris Smith (Ringer Baits) 5-7-0 (Peg 15)5 John Curtis (Daiwa Gordon League) 5-5-0 (Peg 85)Qualifiers:Ian SutherlandMark NewmanGary SeadonIan Sutherland won the latest Shakespeare Festival qualifier, with an 8-7-0 net of perch from Peg 2. Ian caught chunky perch on a maggot feeder cast two thirds of the way across the river. In second place was Evesham local Gary Seadon, who backed up some early perch and eels on a flat float with quality roach on hemp from Peg 64, next to the ferry.

Stainforth & Keadby Canal to host exciting new contest. A new teams-of-three winter league is set to run on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal at Thorne. The venue – which has a reputation as being one of the most prolific winter fisheries in the country has been famous for hosting the sell-out individual and pairs league in years gone by. In recent years, numbers have begun to dwindle though – and when the previous organiser announced that he wasn’t interested in running the leagues any more, Lee Kerry and Tom Scholey stepped up to the mark.

England Juniors lead World Youth Championship. The England under-18 team have taken a commanding position on the first day of the Junior World Championship, taking three section wins and a second. As it stands, they are nine points ahead of second-placed France, with one day of the competition still to go. Section winners include Sam Hughes, Bradley Gibbons and Joe Kent, with Matt Barnett second in his section – finishing just a few grams short of victory.

• Designed for banding hard pellets • Makes this fiddly job a doddle!• Every angler should own oneRRP: £3. 25 . . .