Steve Townsend won Round 2 of the Oxford Summer League with a quality 42lb 9oz catch of bream and roach.

The event saw seven teams of six on the Medley and Folly sections of the River Thames. It was a warm, blustery day with plenty of swimmers, dogs and boats, but the river showed good form with roach and bream throughout. The anglers at Medley were even greeted by the sight of bream and carp spawning in some of the weedbeds!

Steve, fishing for Drennan Oxford Yellow, drew one peg off the poplars at Medley and started off with an open end feeder fished two thirds of the way across the river. Ten bream fell to his worm hook bait. He then switched to a waggler swim, fishing tares over hempseed to bolster his catch with a further 10lb of roach.

Paul Passmore (Devizes MG) was second with 23lb 9oz from the top peg in the same section and had bream on the open end feeder and roach on the pole. Third was Gary Pook who had a bream and quality roach for 20lb 7oz.

Drennan Oxford Yellow were top on the day with 36 points, while Drennan Oxford Blue, Sensas A4 and Devizes all tied on 32 points. So far in the league it’s also a tie between Drennan Oxford Blue and Drennan Oxford Yellow on 71 points.