Harescombe Thursday costcutter

This is getting very popular as 20 turned up to fish this today, so after downing one of Andy's adequate breakfasts it was time to delve into the bank bag for the draw, stand out draw was 17 as it was on its own, I was halfway there as I pulled out disc 8, for company I had venue expert Stuart Graham on peg 7 and Cotswold anglings finest in the shape of Ralph hillier on 9, I left the maggots in the shop for today, pinning my Faith instead on corn on the short line and banded pellet across, so I assembled a 4x12 for short, topset and two. And a couple of pellet rigs for across, one for on the deck and a shallow one just in case they came up.
At the start I began on the short line with corn, but 20 mins in and nothing to show for my efforts, I picked up the pellet rig for across, I was already a few fish behind Ralph who was fishing soft pellet across , kindering in a few freebies over the top, as I don't tend to do careful feeding in stuck with the catty, the result was that I was foulhooking a few , well to be honest quite a few LOL.
Ralph in the meantime was keeping it tight and nice and steadily popping fish into his net, but he was always behind Lee Waller over on 24 , Ken rayner on 19 and Martin hook on 17, all of which were catching well, Stuart to my left had adopted his normal maggot approach and was catching lots of 6/8 oz skimmers and odd f1,s on his took it. My swim went hard definitely covered again, I just can't help myself 😣😣😣😣.
About an hour from the end we had a massive thunderstorm , torrential rain and hail, all the long poles disappeared and everyone was going short, as the picture below shows.

Pic supplied by Stuart .
At least it stopped for the weigh in, first on the day was Martin hook on 17 with 95.4, catching mostly on corn fished short,
Complete weigh sheet below.

Off to Landsend on Sunday , on match and no3 lake , so to book in ring or txt me on 07974807941 to book in or ring or txt Ken rayner on 07768325552 to book , 9.30 draw breakfast available on site from 8am ish.
Also on the 23 rd of April veals are having a shimano open day with Rob Wootton, Nick speed and David fuidge in attendance to give advice and help with shimano products, also no doubt a few fishing tips aswell, so come on down and meet them.