Sedges wednesday costcutter

Down to bridgwater to the sedges , the match was on brick lake with an overflow onto tile, 23 fishing so the overflow was needed, denise and jamie did the draw and pulled out peg 38 for me when it was my turn, on tile so happy with that, for company i had chris ware to my left on 39, and behind me on 4 brick was the irrepressible thomas thick. I fancied a day silvers fishing, so i set up a .6g float for worm or maggot over groundbait with worm and caster in it, a short meat rig as the skimmers sometimes come to this line, aswell as carp in the latter stages of the match, a pellet rig for on the deck at 14 mtrs, and lastly a pellet wag to go towards the island at about 35/40 mtrs.

On the all in i fed two groundbait lines, one at 6 and the other at 11 mtrs, some hard 6mm pellet at 14mtrs, and while that was settling i picked up the pellet waggler rig, still using the drennan acolyte 12 ft carp waggler rod for this , and i have had them for probably 5 years and cant fault it, i had a double figure fish virtually straight away, and soon followed by another, so in all fairness that was my day decided for me, i caught odd fish all match on the wag, although i did have a couple of looks on the silvers lines and to be fair there seemed to be a lot of skimmers there , but of a small average size, also chris to my left had begun to catch good skimmers on meat in his left hand margin, so i stuck mainly with the wag. Best depth seemed to be about two foot, feeding and fishing 8mm brown pellets(tom thick), biggest fish i had was probably about 12lb, i tried some of the new matrix pellet wagglers today and i must say they performed very well, cast ok, never dived and stayed in one piece, the whole range is available in premier angling in keynsham,

As you can imagine, and those that know him, tom was full of his normal banter, which i always enjoy, but i got to say his pellet waggler setup may need a bit of fine tuning, i cant see him doing to well with this ,

By the end i admitted to 180lb, but only weighed 175, but i did chuck back about 4 1/2lb of skimmers, so it would have been close, second went to roy worth on 31 who caught on and alien method for him, the bomb.😂. Chris to my left won the silvers with 41lb, so hes had a nice day, weigh sheet below.