IN AN all-night shore match fished in atrocious weather, including gale force winds and heavy rain, Steve Huxster (pictured) came through to clinch the West Coast Sea Angling Club’s Herm championship.

The bad weather prevented the anglers crossing over to Herm so the last match in the series was fished in Guernsey.

Six members braved the elements and four found fish. Steve had gone into the last round just 11 points behind his son, Shane.

On the night Steve landed 12 lesser-spotted dogfish and a pout for 42 points to finish second, while Shane could manage only five lesser-spotted dogfish and a shore rockling for 24.75 points to finish fourth in the match.

This all meant that Steve had an overall score of 285.25 points to Shane’s 278.75, a final lead of just 6.5 points.

The winner of that last match was Steve Greenway, who caught one grey mullet, one golden grey mullet and one common eel for 6-2-0 and 82.5 points.

Jack Thoume completed the catches in third place with three shore rocklings and one lesser-spotted dogfish for 52.5 points.