Ned flanders rip off, shiplate farm

Hadn't been here for a month so was looking forward to today, its a nice venue where you csn fish for carp or silvers on most pegs, and it wa sold out again with 19 fishing, and in charge again was gary flinders, the venue professional 😁.not to fussed as to where i drew but was more than happy to see peg 2 staring back at me from the swim card, a swim behind the first island, only 14 mtrs to the island so nice and easy,

biggest problem is that the island is well undercut, so foulers are always a problem, but luckily there is a collapsed piece of bank slightly to the left, so that would be my area of choice, plumbing up i found about 10 to 12 inches of water, just about right.

I set up a pellet rig for across there on a .1g rig with the ever trusty 16 b960 on .16 with a .22 mainline, i also set up meat rig for topset and two, and a margin rig for down the right as it was a nice muddy bottom and not rocks. On peg one was tony thick(toms !ong suffering dad). And on my left was kev winstone, before the start i wandered down to give kev a few words of encouragement, as he has been having a bit torrid of late, i noticed he had invested in some spotted fin pellets, he did admit the only reason he boight them was the free t shirt they were giving away with orders of a certain size, shame the t shirt was to small, only a xxl, big kev seems to be in denial.after a bit of banter i wandered back to my peg and got ready, at the start i began on the short meat line, while feeding pellet to the island, and also cupped in some feed down the edge, onl only topset and one. the meat line was slow, i had two nice skimmers and apart from a missed bite that was lot from that line approaching the hour mark i could see fish on the island swim, so the meat line was ditched , i was by this time behind tony as he had been catching carp from the start , so as far as i could see he was going to win, i started to catxh quite well across but was always struggling to catch up with tony, i did have a few.down the edge aswell in the last hour, but never enough to claw back the lead tony had built up, on the all out i new i had a few pounds over 200, but felt tony had closer to 300, i wasnt to far out as tony had over 270, i had 211 which was second , thurd place went to john andres the other side of kevin with 180, silvers.went to lee williams over on the far side with 30+lb, so well done all, weigh sheet below,well it would be if i could find where my tablet has hidden it, also i still have a couple of spaces for Monday at acorn, so get in touch if you fancy it.

ha ha , found it