Over 55,s , huntstrete bridge pool

22 in attendance today so not to bad, had breakfast with judith this mkrning as she had a late.start, very nice to,4.5. I cooked it. 15 minutes drive to the lale today as woollard hill was closed so a detoir through compton dando Dave Gillard did the social.distancing draw , and i ended up on peg 11, a definite peg of choice, can be good for both silvers and carp, although it hasnt framed much recently in iether. so i set up a silvers rig to try and catch silvers at the bottom of the shelf on a topset and two distance, and three rigs to fish pellet towards the island, one about a mtr off in three foot of water, another to fish tight to the island, which is 17 mtrs away, and shallow rig , i never used the tight up to the isalnd rig as although it plumbed up nicely , due to the roots and brambles it was impossible to get the rig in tight.

At the start i cupped in a couple of balls of caster infused groundbait on the short line, and began firing some 6mm hard pellet over to the island, also down to empty peg 12, as i could use the same.rig as the 3 foot island one, i started off quite well , a few decent skimmers in the first hour,but i just stopped getting any bites, even though it was fizzing a bit. So i spent the rest of the match on the long pole towards the island, it did look nice but the brambles looked to be calling me.

I started out using the depth rig, but after a couple of foulers, i was reaching for the shallow rig, which i spent most of the remainder of the match on, normally you woukd get lkts of f1,s on these island pegs, but not today, for some reason they were having an off day. I did get three f1,s, but most bites resulted in a proper carp, anything from 2lb to double figures, and judging by the bankside banter no one was getting a lot, at the end i thought i had well ive 80lb, which was going to be more than enough to win as far as i could tell, when kev winstone finally arrived with the scales my nets went just over 106lb, with paul barnfield on 24 coming second with just short of 40lb, and kev winstone won the silvers with 24lb, and he had a quid off of me as we had a bet on silvers only, i did try and get away with it as he forgot his nets , so i lent him a couple, ut he refused to pay me pound hire charge 😂. Weigh sheets below as normal (hopefully)