avalon weds

off to shipham for brekkie where deans eye,s lit up when he saw they now do a bigger than ever breakfast called the greedy b,stard. considering its only a quid more than the usual dean never thought it would be that big(wrong),when it turned up it was probably the biggest we had ever seen, but fair play he nailed it but only just
of to the lake and it was good to see liegh and vic have been working hard to sort out the islands and the platforms and it really looks to be coming together, even the consevation lake is open for customers now, its going to be a syndicate lake, and one of the new members was fishing it today and had a 26 1/2 lb ghostie which had probably never seen a hook before.
back to the draw and i found myself on peg 9 which is the first swim on the second island, 2 pole rigs, both 4x16 impact 6 floats one with an 18 6313 to .10 and the other a 16 6313 to .12, the smaller hook for maggot over groundbait at 13 mtrs and the other for corn over micro,s at 16 mtrs, and i set up a waggler to fish to the island with banded 8mm pellet about 3 foot deep. at the start i cupped 4 balls of g bait at 13 ,and about 1/4 cup of micro,s at 16.
i fired some 6 mm pellets to the island and began on that , 3 chucks and that was the first float gone then, there was 1 spindly twig stuck out and it turned out to be more than a match for my line, so chuck that up the bank and out on the pole over the g bait, the float slid straight under and a 1 1/2 skimmer was in the net,for the next hour i had some more small skimmers(4 oz) and roach by then it was descision time ,weather to go for silvers or carp, so i refed the pole lines and re made the wag, glad idid cos within 3 chucks i had my first carp, i think i had 4 in the next 45 mins all on 8mm pellet(lovely).back on the pole and a 2lb tench and some more small roach ended up in the net, out to the 16 mtr line with corn and 2 12oz skimmers took a liking to my corn , then the third bite was a carp, after netting it i fed again and went back out on the wag , after 2 more carp and it was back on the pole for another carp and a couple of good skimmers up to 3lb(ok so it was a bream then), a bit more feed and out on the wag again and carp number 9 was netted, then the wind direction changed slightly and i couldnt keep my wag close to the island it kept tripping out ,away from the killing zone so it was back on the pole for the last 50 mins. i had 1 more carp and 3 more good skimmers in that time. at the end gary wall , dean malin , myself and andy france all had 10 or 11 fish so it could be tight, as i had double figures of silvers i thought that might just swing it in my favour, in the end i had 15.14 of silvers and 54.13 of carp,total 70.11 and a win and top silvers as well
2nd gary wall 50.01 peg 1 on corn up the edge on the pole
3rd dean malin 43.03 peg 5 on his beloved feeder
4th martin lenaghan 38.02 peg 13
5th andy france 33.09 peg 22
6th pete notton 29.05 peg 20
any one looking for a match on sunday mike duckett has got an open going on at landsend fishery
tel 07977545882 to book in