Viaduct silvers lge rnd 2

I travelled with Chris fox today , and we stopped at the well in shepton, formerly canards well, and to be fair the foos was excellent, unfortunately it took about 35 minutes for it to arrive at the table, so 4.85 for the food and 2.5 for the service. Anyway, we still managed to get to the fishery in time for the 9am draw, got into the queue about halfway along, waiting for steve to do the draw as we paid, i got to the front and he drew me out peg 124 on the far side of Campbell, quite happy with that, not a match winning peg in all honesty, but a fair section peg, the match was almost guaranteed to be won from cary as the skimmers had really switched on in the lale , possibly due to the huge ammount of high protein carp bait that has been shovelled into it all summer long, for company i was next to will puddy on 123 and mike walker on 125, i also had chris in my section aswell on 121. My section was pegs, 118 round to 125, so i felt i was at the better end to be fair. I was using a new keepnet today, which as we all know it can be the kiss of death, but i had to get it wet at some stage, it is one of mosella,s 2 mtr hd nets, ideal for this type of fishing, not to long but more than big enough for today, i did have my other silver net aswell just in case.

Today it was flat calm, so no trip or ripple, which can make it a bit of a trial for silvers but the carp seem to enjoy it.

Three rigs, a .3g drennan as3 for topset and one, same pattern but .2g for down the edge, and a .5g guru wire stem for 11 and 14 mtrs double bulk, just in case i needed it. A simple bait tray, some black lake(sensas) mixed with a bag of thatchers original, 50/50. Always been my favourite skimmer mix. 2 pints of casters and a handful of dead reds. I fed one small ball on the short line, 2 at 11 mtrs and 3 at 14mtrs all with caster in and nothing else. Starting short i gave it a out 90 minutes and had three good skimmers and some sensible roach, but as expected it died on that line, i kept feeding it but it never came back, i had a short burst of roach down the edge and lost a good perch, bloody things with horrible bony mouths, most of the remainder was spent flitting between the two long lines where it was a case of waiting for a bite, sometimes it was a skimmer, other times it was a carp, just pot luck, i lost probably a dozen carp, more than some and a lot less than others,the double bulk didnt seem right today, althiugh i had a few fish on jt , the lighter .3 rig was better. but by the end i thought i may have 20lb which looked good for the section, my fish went 25 lb , more than enough to win the section, so happy with that, roll on the next one, as expected all the framers came from cary, with paul faiers winning on the day with 42lb of mainly waggler and corncaught skimmers of peg 97, well done, weigh sheets below as normal.