The third league match of the series was to be held at Broom Fishery near Annan. The match was to be fished on the same four ponds as the first round - Queensberry, Bruces Acre, Square and the Canal.

Once again the mighty Monklands All Stars were desperate to finish off the bottom, in fact the All Stars had a new objective - to catch and overtake the mighty Monklands B team, the All Stars were on fire and full of confidence, we were sure the B team were running scared. The A team on the other hand were hoping to increase the lead they had at the top of the league.

The Monklands teams for this round were:

Monklands A

Ian Whitson

Darrin Ferguson

Stephen McAveny

Ewan Weed

Monklands B

Richie Vernon (standing in for Davie McAuley)

Simon Murray

Alec Napier

Dougie Garmoury

Monklands All Stars

Michael Neary

Mike Shaw

David Anderson

Bryan Hewitt

Individually the match was won by Broom A's Mark Trueman (Mark is a Monklands member who for some reason was fishing for Broom this year) from the Queensberry lake with a Carp net of 27lb.

Teamwise it was Magiscroft who took the spoils, winning with 51 points and gaining 4 points on Monklands A. This put Monklands A 13 points clear at the top of the league and favourites to win the league with only one match remaining.

Monklands All Stars fished a blinder and finished 7th with 38 points, 11 points ahead of the B team. This put the All Stars 5 points behind the B team with one match remaining.

Full results courtesy of Mike Weed (thanks Mike):

Team Points - League 3

Match Results - League 3

Individual Points Summary - League 3

Team Points Summary - League 3

My Match (Mike)

Just a few words about how I fished my peg.

Drawing permanent peg 70 on Bruces Acre was a decent draw, with the wind blowing into my bank I was confident of a few bites. I had been informed by a regular that the pegs weren't fishing very well, but there should be bits to fish for if the Carp didn't show.

With the wind blowing into the bank I decided to fish fairly close in, having one line at 4 sections to the right and 4 sections to the left, a third line would be 6 sections straight out in front and a feeder line as a backup.

At the hooter I fed the right hand line with chopped worm and caster, the left hand line with worm on its own, the longer line was fed with Pellet. A quick look on the feeder resulted in a motionless tip, after which I started on the right hand line catching small Perch and then Roach. The rest of the match was spent alternating all lines in the hope of catching a few Carp, with one hour to go I started fishing Paste over the long pellet line and had indications straight away - two Carp in quick succession and I thought I'd empty it - wrong! No more fish came my way, I ended up with 4lb odd and 4th in the section, the top two in section coming from the flier in the corner and and angler with a full bank to himself.