Two matches and a brief roundup

Firstly it was down to shiplate for a match split over the two canals, went with chris fox and no complaints about the breakfast roll the fox household produced. Got to the fishery in plenty of time, john hawkins got the draw underway, i fancied a day on hawthorn, as i usually end up on westpool, so more than happy with that, on my left was alan quantrill, £1 bet secured , but at his request it has to be said. On my right was tim, no surname on the sheet sorry. John was paying top two on each canal and one silver. The peg looked good with a nice farbank, bare bank next to a dead reed bed which seemed to have plenty of fish in it, also my right hand margin looked very tempting.

as i said these will be brief, starting on the far bank about a mtr off, it started well catching carp on banded 8mm pellet over hard 4,s, after that slowed a bit i went tight in and had a run of fish there, i couldnt get as tight to the reeds as i would have liked as there were a lot of underwater snags, i did try to catxh shallow close to the reeds , only one doing that , the margin was only.good for three fish, and i had some short on meat in the last hour, i new i had over 100lb, so was happy to put 125lb on the scales, which was good enough for second on the lake and second overall as jofn hawkins on peg 6 had 197lb fishing maggot across and down the edge,

also chris on wastpool came second on his lake so we had a happy van. Weigh sheets below.

Oops nearly forgot, smiling alan handing over his quid, thanks matey, going large on the way home then lol

Monday and i ran a match at acorn, was happy to have 18 turn up, i put in the island and 34 round to 20, plus 31 just for paul faiers(lol). I didnt go right to the bridge as there was a pleasure angler on 22 so left him a bit of room, 20 is not used to often, so no surprise to me when the last peg in the bucket for me was 20, empty peg each side may help though,

short line with maggot was set up as it has been a good ploy recently, also the obligatory mud line rig for the far side, same rig would do for the margins, and a rig to fish in front of 21. To say it was a slow start would be an understatement, i had 1 carp in the first 2 hours, eventually some fish were found but i had to go 14 mtrs to the far bank in front of 21 in a foot of water.

Aswell as some fish by empty peg 21 and a few in the left hand margin.

I would have loved to have gone to the bridge, but with the angler the other side of the bridge it would have meant going beyond the pegs limits,(as i see it). So an enjoyable end , ending up with 21 CARP but as they were bridge dwellers which tend to be a bit smaller i thought i would have 75lb ish but went 87lb, not enough as steve hutter on 5 had 115 and aaron on 1 had 112, so thirdwhich was ok from that peg, there were a lot of fish tight to the bridge today, and just to prove it zak williams drew 21 next day and won with 112lb i think, mugging in the scum by the sounds of it, weigh sheet below.