Sunday/monday

Sunday it was round three of mat Culpin,s ripoff league, shiolate farm for this one, and i definitely wanted to avoid the squircle, but firstly breakfast, thanks to the ladies as lillypool cafe for opening up a bit earlier for us, and it was really nice (4.85). So got to fishery to find the Carpark rammed, as as well as us 36 , the frampton club was there and they had 21 fishing, good to meet the person who is buying the property, seems like a nice bloke, and he is going to employ John hawkins as the fishery manager , a good move i think, so good luck to all. Mat go the social distancing draw underway, i was fourth to be drawn and he pulled out 7 on Hawthorn for me, more than happy with that one, especially as I had an empty peg to my right. At least i should have a much better day than the last round at Summerhayes, strangely i drew next to brian slipper again, ive had an interesting days fishing, catching fish across, about a mtr off the far side in about 2 foot of, on banded 6mm hard pellet over loose fed 4mm, the fact its a steady slope up to the far side makes it a bit hard to at times to get the bait sat ok on the slope, but i felt i was doing enough to do well, i was the end peg in the section, and i couldnt see what was going on at the other end, but it sounded as though it was being quite tough early on, most of the match was spent towards the end peg, i did try several flirts on the short meat line, although i had couple of fish, i didnt seem right, and towards the end i had some slightly better fish in my right hand margin on maggot, i was first to weigh in the section and ended up with 133lb, but mike duckett on peg three caught well on meat in his margin innthe last couple of hours to end up with 167lb to win his section and the match, well done mike, i ended up 2 in the section and second onnthe day, also top silvers weight on the day was from our lake, jess Jordan on 13 had just under 17lb, next round is back to Summerhayes, hopefully i will avoid 23 longs, but you never know, weigh sheets below.

monday and it was acorn again, i was up to 24 fishing at one stage.but come the day i was back down to 18, still ok, so i am doing another in a fortnight, all welcome just get in touch to book in. i did the social distancing draw, apart from drawing my own, i left that to the golden arm of alan quantrill, an angler who has probably drawn peg one at shiplate more times than titch williams and gary flinders combined, LOL 😂, and he never let me down, pulling in form peg 11 out for me, i did repay him by drawing peg 21, as he likes his silvers fishing he was happy with that, i had darren north(matrix) lookalike,gary coton(matrix)to my right and john dursley on my left. Again the plan was to attack the island shelf with hard pellet, the same to my left where the tree has been taken out, then a maggot line at topset and two hopefully for some tench aswell as odd carp.

And the match went pretty much to plan, started across for an 8lb common first put in, and they kept coming for a while, not to consistent, but enough to have me thinking i was doing ok, occasional looks down the left hand margin gave me a few, and i even managed to mug one, in the last couple of hours i had some bubbled coming up onthe short maggot line, and i had a few nice tench from there, so by the end i thought i had about 140lb, and wasnt to far out as i ended up with 138lb, which also included over 30lb of tench, turned out to be enough to win, john andres on three had 127lb on paste, silver,s by default won the silver poll with 21lb, weigh sheet below shows it fished ok, and i must say the fish are in really good condition. Weigh sheet below.

Dont forget i running another one in a fortnight, so message me or give me a ring at premier angling to book in.