ivy house, Wednesday open

I can see this venue becoming very popular with anglers from as far apart as oxford and bristol, andy and karen are doing plenty of work improving the fishery and the amenities,  and the breakfast is tasty and the post match coffee and biscuits are a nice touch,  only 12 of us fishing today, whereas the day before on the costcutter there was over 20, bit of food for thought on that one,  costcutters are fine as long as you can cover your costs when you pick up.
into the draw bag and out comes peg 6, its a nice swim in the corner of the lake where the causeway bank goes over to the island, it used to have plenty of bushes and trees along the bank, bit andy seems to be getting the full use from karens chainsaw as all the tree's are now missing from the banks as the reed beds as andy has been busy with a digger and pulled the lot out,
the form peg has been 46 in the last few matches, so andy left it out today and put in 45 which leon hubbard was on and the ample frame of mark poppleton was on 47,
I set up .5g rig for maggot and corn and a couple of hard pellet rigs , a 4x12 for 16 mtrs up the edge and 16 mtrs to my left and a .4g ome for hard pellet at 16 mtrs straight out.
It took 25 mins to get my first bite which wss on maggot over micros at 11 mtrs, which was ome of the small stockie carp, I had a couple mre fairly quickly but the bites where very iffy,  a change to corn helped as the bites became more positive, mark on 47 was catching well on the pole as was andy lloyd over on 12 who was fishing the wag and hard pellet,  bites were a bit hard to come by, but by swapping between the 5 limes that I was feeding I managed to keep getting odd bites and most of the fish fell to banded 6mm pellet over loose fed 4, s , I also had 6 dood skimmers on the hard pellet, and with mark and andy catching to the end , silvers seemed my gest chance of an envelope,
and thats how it panned out with my 6 skimmers going 16.9 for first in tje silvers
1st went to mark poppleton on 47 with 77.8
2nd fishery owner andy lloyd with 50.12
3rd terry rok 42.3
4th me on 6 with 33 13
5th leon (sheare) hubbard on 45 with 31lb
6th jw on 31 with 25.13
still got a cou9le of spaces for landsend on Sundays