This week

Went to ivy house on sunday with chris fox,2 matches to choose from, one on the fish race lake and the other one on the canals, i chose the latter, but before the draw we had time for one of karens breakfast rolls, and it was very nice, andy and karen have done a lot of work on the fishery and it all looks very good, so well done. andy did the social distancing draw and i ended up with peg 40, a good draw , only 13 mtrs wide with a few.reeds.opposite and an overhanging tree. Nice to have the nets supplied and waiting for you at yoir peg.

I have have had a bit of a bad day , been beaten iether side , ellick to my left had fished the methid feeder for the biggest part and had 120lb, and andy lord to my right had 85ish, me, well i had 69lb for no where, started.well with a few.carp down the middle on pellet, some across by the reeds also on pellet, then a few.down the margin on corn over caster, a few.fish so still enjoyable,

Thursday and it was back to huntstrete for the coffin dodgers (am i allowed to say that in these pc lucrative times), dave Gillard again did the distancing draw and pulled out peg 15 for me, no complaints from me, a good silvers and carp peg, i had chris ollis on my left ,peg 16 (again), and dave poole to my right, as its the same payout for first overall or silvers i decided have a silvers day, but i did set a rig for pellet across to the island at 16 mtrs, but i was going to fish for skimmers at topset and two distance, last match i was on 14 and had 42lb of silvers mainly shallow at the same distance, but today it looked different, last match there were loads of fizzes all round the lake but today it lokked a bit lifeless with no bubbles, but i set up a a shallow rig and a depth rig for the short line, no pictures today as i poured down all match, luckily no wind, so Brolly straight up , nice and dry all day. At the start i fed a couple of balls of groundbait then began loosefeeding caster over the top. Last match was really good fishing shallow, this week it never happened, only Had one skimmer, the rest was my least favourite fish of all time , micro rudd, aaaargh, so i spent most of the match fishing on the deck, catchimg small skimmers with the occasional better sample, i did try the island on pellet, first drop an f1, next put in a 4lb carp, went back to the skimmers before trying it a bit later, hooked another carp which did me in the brambles on the end of the isalnd, end of rig , end of island fishing. I did feed a few casters.down the margin and had an f1and a six pound carp, i thought i had done enough to win the silvers, the only other person having some silvers was kev winstone on peg 27, but i thought i had done enough to beat him. My silvers went 27.14 which was enough to win the silvers on the day, kev wa ssecond in silvers with 22lb, top weight on the day was taken by paul barnfield who managed.to moan 75lb onto the scales from unfancied (according to paul) peg 18, well.done matey. As.normal.sheets below.

Teo matches this weekend, Sunday a short pole match on Campbell at viaduct , then monday the gary wall memorial match at Landsend fishery, contact myself or mike duckett to book in.