chard resevoir revisited

trying to work out how long it has been since dean and me last fished on the rese , and as far as we can remember it is probably 8 or 9 years since our last visit, and it showed!!!!!!!!!!!
it was good to see a lot of the old stagers were still about and the matches were still being run by the legend that is les braunton. there were to be 7 pegs on the dam wall and 16 around the side in the tree,s (fliers). where did i draw, end peg on the dam and as far as it was possible to be from the tree,s. a quick chat with les who told me there was a 42 lb of roach off the peg earlier in the series, but he didnt tell me that the wind was blowing onto the dam and there was more colour in the water. today the wind was north east and the water was as flat as a witches tit for 60 mtrs, so i decided that bream and skimmers might not go(wrong) so i decided on a roach and pole attack with some chopped worm and caster, the locals told me not to put worm in as the eels like it, i didnt see that as a problem as they average 12 oz to a pound. but plumbing up i thought i could be in trouble as it was only 2 1/2 ft at 7 mtr and only 6 ft at 14. on les,s shout i put 1 ball of g/bait at 7 mtr and 4 balls at 14 mtr. starting at 7 mtr and loose feeding caster , i new i was in trouble when i only had 2 roach in the first 30 mins whilst others down the bank with slightly more water were getting bites and roach steadily and just to upset me even more, steve chant on the next peg had had a bream and 2 skimmers(i didnt think they would feed). out to 14 mtr and to be fair i could get a bite every put in with small roach but i was going nowhere . and with steve nextdoor getting odd bream and skimmers after 2 1/2 hours i decided to set up the feeder, now i had the rod with me but the reel was back in the van so i ha dto go and get it , on the way back i also had to scrounge a feeder off steve cos i never had one with me.
quickly setting it up i put 5 quick feeder fulls out on the same line as steve then tied on a size 14 hook for triple maggot which is what steve was catching on , and guess what i couldnt get a bite , i tried maggot ,caster, worm and corn and varios cocktails. i had 1 eel, 1 roach and 2 skimmers, the odd thing was is that for the last hour my peg was a mass of fizz where my feeder was landing but i couldnt get a sign of a bite, and to make matters worse steve kept getting odd fish right to the end and he had no fizz. the match was won up in the tree,s on peg43 by dave steward with 52.8 on white choccy boilie , his travelling partner chris whitfield was second fishing the same way with a boilie on the feeder with 52.3 they both had 11 bream
mike hosgood was third on peg 36 with 47.8
steve chant 39.13(next to me)
and back up weights of 38, 37 , 36 an so on till you came to me , who was probably last with about 6 lb. i would like to think that i did something wrong but i dont think i did , i,m just shit and that was the first bream/ skimmer fishing i have done with a feeder since the last time i was at chard so i will be going back to have another go in the not to distant future, and to be fair the chard boys werent to harsh on me(much). ithink thats 2 matches on the trot now i have been lastish i cant even liken my self to glen bailey any more cos even he has started to catch again. it was good to see bela in the cafe bright and early this morning , he reckoned he had to get out before claire woke up just in case she found some decorating that needed doing lol.
and even dean had 36 lb and he was beaten and out cast by mike hosgood off the next peg. at least i was only beaten on 1 side !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!