Shiplate thursday costcutter

Baxk down to this well kept fishery again, twenty booked in so still popular, john hawkins got the draw underway, i wasn't upset to be called out with peg 3, its a good carp peg with an island at 16mtrs and good margins as thwre is plenty if room to the next anglers, on my right was dave white on 2 and merv clark on my left on 4, ably assisted by the yorkie devil dog who doesn't seem to like anyone or anything apart from merv.

Although its a good carp peg and not shown a lot of silvers form recently, i decided to try and catch some of the lakes skimmer population, i do enjoy catching these slimy little bream, but with spawning time approaching, as long as the water temp gets to where it needs to be, most of the better ones are a bit rough at the mo, so a .4g wire stem float with a 16 guru f1 maggot hook on .12 line, a meat rig for topset and two at the bottom of the rocky slope, and a pellet rig for over by the island in the shallow water, but as it turned out that was a waste of time, line and a hook, there were odd fish over there but as the water was quite clear, as soon as the pooe went over there they would disappear, i may have had one liner , but at least the ducks appreciated the free feed, the skimmers didnt want to play ball, only odd fish coming my way, but as far as i could see, that was more than most, so i persevered, the skimmers were mooching about as the odd small touches showing on the float indicated. I did hook two carp on meat on the short line, the first one was fouled, and although it was on for a while, came off near the net, the second one stuck, and was about 12lb, at the end i reckoned on about 16lb of silvers and the lone carp, dave to my right had three carp as did merv to my left, merv came out top on the day with 33.12 , well done merv .

I was glad i stuck with the silvers as my 18.8 was enough to take the silver pool, and my.carp went 12.1 , so 30.9 was fourth on the day,

The weigh sheet below shows how hard it had been, hopefully as the weather gets better so will the fishing, this time last year most of us were furloughed and basking in mid 20,s centigrade, a bit different this year, we are still getting frosts, it cant be normal 😂, global warming, ye right.