Shiplate,

Baxk to this popular venue on sunday , with the match being fished over the two canals again, Hawthorn and West pool, as is normal at the mo Hawthorn would be the preferred lake for a good days fishing, plenty of fish in west pool but its being difficult at the moment, perhaps lack if angling pressure isnt helping. So when john hawkins pulled out peg 4 for me i was happy, and a bit of banter was assured as i had mot calpin on three, to my right on 6 was lewis walker. Inwas happy with the peg as it was not quite 14 mtrs wide, with a nice clear patxh against the far bank.

a couple of rigs for across, one in about 12 inches of water, and the other just off in about 3foot, a meat rig for 5mtrs, a mugger as i could see some fish, and a margin rig for down to the right, but it was three foot deep down there , a tad to deep for my liking, but the intention was to feed and fish maggot down there off the deck, bit to cut a long story short for that line, i only had two skimmers from there. At the start i had a fish from the deeper water across, but that was my only fish on that rig, i had to try and catch in the shallow water, but they were cagey to say the least, three or 4 maggots on a 16 was best today, as for mugging i only had two fish doing that, mot to my left started slowly but his peg got stronger as the match went on, he was fishing his favoured banded caster fished shallow at 6 mtrs, after a slow start he easily went past me, i had a short run on meat but again that didnt last, lewis saw me.catxh a couple on meat , and when he tried it he reckons he had 60lb very quickly. So today i got beaten each side, lewis had 131lb, i had 121lb, then mot ended up with 190lb, but he did admit to feeding between 5 and 6 pints of casters, well done.

I aslo had to hand over the obligatory quid to him, which always hurts, wheres alan quantrill when you need him LOL.

weigh sheets below

Monday and as judith had taken a day off in the hope the weather was ok for the self drives at beer, which it wasnt we decided to have a go on chesil beach. Not the best area to choose to be honest, just past the skate park in the masonic Carpark, but with a fresh north easterly, it afforded us a nice bit of shelter, with the lovely backdrop of portland, nice scenery to say the least.

Trap set , not really expecting to much to be fair, but you never know, got to be in it to win it as they say

As i thought it was tough, judith had a couple of tentative indications, dan fowler who was with us had a hook nipped off by the dreaded spider crab, and i managed two wrasse, pretty fish but not really what we were after.