Got to take the good with the bad

Firstly it was a match at huntstrete on Thursday with the coffin dodgers, dave gillard did the social distancing draw, and he pulled out peg 14 for me , no moaning, good silvers peg aswell as an island to fish to, even if it was 17.5mtrs away, i had match organiser Dave Gillard to my left and cliff smith on my right. So one silvers rig to fish worm or maggot over groundbait at 5 and 11 mtrs, a depth rig for 16 mtrs for pellet which would also do for down to empty peg 13, and a swinging rig for the island as i couodnt be arsed to wrestle with that much with the high bank behind me, at the start I cupped in one ball of groundbait 5mtrs, and 2 balls at 11 mtrs. The short line was barren apart from micro perch, the 11 mtr line was more productive, with a few skimmers and one big bream, which once weighed over 6lb, but was now less than 5, the silvers stopped feeding for everyone it seemed, so over to the island it was then, i had a couple.of f1,s and a small carp , then jt was odd liners, a look down to peg 13 pallet gave me.one carp of about 8lb, and apart from a liner a bit later i never had any more action down there, the swinging rig to the island gave me afew.more.small carp and f1,s, also a bonus 10lb common, dead handy, at the end i new i had over 40lb, and when the scales arrived i had just short of 14lb of silvers and 32lb of carp, which was enough to win overall and the silvers, it fished really hard probably due to the drop in temperature, weigh sheets below as normal.

That was the good, now onto the bad, Summerhayes for the next round of mat Culpin,s snake lake series, mat did the draw and pulled out 23 on longs for me, what ive seen of the lake in the past it was definitely a bad peg, which brian slipper on 22 confirmed, i cant write to much as nothing really happened, i had one carp and 4 skimmers, which weighed a little over 5lb, i did manage to beat two, brian slipper had 2lb, and dan squire had a head melt.down and threw his fish back and went home, myself and brian just couldnt get a bite, and unfortunately due to the position of the peg i had a grandstand view up the lake, watching people catch all day, i think the bait i fed is probably still on the bottom i dont often feel as.though there was nothing i could do , i needed anothe 30lb to get another point, but it was never going to happen, i had the carp about 90minutes in, and i shouod have gone to sleep in the van, i would have had the same points without wasting any more bait, but thats fishing, rough and smooth as they say, weigh sheets below.