Neds thursday ripoff

Back at Shiplate farm for this one, havnt been here for several weeks and was looking forward to it, it looks as though steve and carol have sold it, but luckily it sounds as though the new owner is keen to keep it as a fishery and is going to honour all match bookings. Gary(ned)flinders was running this one , but he is handing the reigns over to titch williams from now on. Gary got the draw underway and i picked up peg 5 from the table top draw, i dont mind really where i draw on this lake ,but peg 1( best peg in Somerset) is always fancied, that pleasure fell to alan quantrill, and with venue expert gary on 3 i thought silvers may be my best option, so with tbis in mind i set up a short caster rig to fish on my topkit with caster, a rig for worm over groundbait on two lines at 11 mtrs (11&1 o,clock), a pellet rig for.16 mtrs.on the deck and a meat.rig for the right hand margin, i normally like to have a closer rig aswell for the skimmers, but this peg is shallow for a long way out, it doesnt drop down to the full depth till you get to about 9.5mtrs.

I was ready to start on time, and when gary called all in, i fed two balls of groundbait on the two longer lines, some 6mm hard pellet at 16 mtrs, plopped.a.few.pieces of meat.down the edge , then started.on the short caster line, i gave that about 15 minutes but apart from a few small roach, it wasnt to good, so i went out on dounle caster on the right hand long line, i quickly had a couple of decent skimmers, then i noticed a large dark ominous cloud approaching, so a walk back to the van for the Brolly was needed, just as well i did as we had some really heavy rain and hail storms during the match. But I had a nice days fishing, catchimg plenty of skimmers from the two long lines, but they seemed to want a bit today ever time one line seemed to slow, i put another decent ball in with some caster and chopped worm in and went to the other line, i also had a few carp from my long line and the meat margin line had plenty of activity towards the end, this is where the horrible word hindsight come along again, i could see plenty of carp being caught , but i misread massivley as to how many and the sizes of them coming out, i had mark bowden over on 14 as the clear winner,WRONG, when the scales got to me alan on one had 130lb, gary on 3 had 140, i thought i had about 115lb, but was a little bit out as i had 123lb which included 47lb of skimmers.

And gary over on 14 had 128lb, so gary was top on the day, i should have spent the last 30minutes fishing for carp as that weight was more than attainable i think as i had tail patterns down there, normally 47lb is enough the win the silvers , but well done tony thick, who on peg 11 fished meat short for an excellent 50lb, well done matey.weigh sheet below.