LAUNCESTON’s Nigel Woods and Richard Ford won the Pallatrax Carp Open, which was held from Friday, September 28 to Sunday, September 30 at Upper Tamar Lake.

They chose peg 6, which was a shallow peg, and fished really well over the weekend to land five carp for 72lbs 10oz to scoop the £2,000 top prize.

Karl and Alfie Yates from Bude were second, winning £1,000 with four fish weighing 52lb 9oz and Allan Jones and Matthew Pepperell (Bude) were third winning £500 with four fish totalling 46lb 8oz.

Ford also caught the largest fish of the weekend — a 20lb 5oz mirror carp.