When the eighth match of the 2011 / 2012 series was fished at prolific Timsbury Manor on December 18th Steve Davis made the most of drawing the Golden Peg, and had a comfortable win with 32lb of carp caught on the pole and red maggot, well ahead of Sam Skilton's 13lb in second place. The lake was partially iced over when the match started, but nobody expected it to fish quite so hard, with only 5lb needed for fourth place. The only good news was that there were no blanks.

The first knockout round of the Singles competition is now complete (fished on total weight over two matches), with the results being:

• Andy Wicks beat Sam Skilton
• Steve Davis beat Paul Follington
• Kevin Roberts beat Kevin Smith
• Daniel Butler beat Keith Brown

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