Two nice days

Sunday and i was off to Todber with chris fox for a match on hillview being run by john darby,on hillview. nice breakfast omelette at cafe fox before the journey, very nice. Not to bad a journey down , seemed to be a lack of sunday drivers about, im not complaining. Paid our money and john got the draw started on time, i was fairly well down the queue, but was more than happy to pull out 54, its a corner peg with plenty of room and options,

i was next to chris on 55, and a long way off to my left and around the corner was bob ( not sure about this one)gullick on 53. I had been told pellets werent really working on this lake, meat was the way to go, although all the other lakes were responding to pellets, so today i would be mainly fishing pellets.i had nice margins left and right, so two rigs there, a topset and two line , same rig for 11 mtrs, and a toeoset and one for meat.not to much to say really , ive had a pleasant day sat with the sun in my face, catching fish on all lines, even managing to mug 5 fish, by the end i thought i had about 200lb, wasnt to far off as i had 198lb, only good enough for third as mark wynne on 57 had 207lb for second with bib gullick on 53 had 210lb, so a very tight match.

Weigh sheet below , plenty of fish caught today.

Monday and chris and me were off to shiplate on the main lake, the forecast was atrocious, winds gusting up to 50mph and heavy rain, i fancied a day skimmer fishing, so pegs 8 or 9 would be ideal as the wind would be off the back, but no john pulls me out peg 12 , so a nice silvers peg with an overhanging bush to my right, always a chance of a carp or two from there,

didnt go mad on rigs, basically one for skimmers at 11 mtrs , a .6g wire stem jobby, and a .2 for the shallow water by the bush, as.i normally do , at the start I cupped in three balls of groundbait with some worm and caster in attendance 11mtrs, and a bit of meat by the bush, they got the wind right today, blowing right to left, forcing the trip to go the same way, no chance of holding the rig any way near still, i even used a bump bar today, which helped, but the wind blew the pole off of that several times, much to the ammusment of kurtis to my left, i had a slow start but a good middle , catching some nice skimmers, and one carp. I lost quite a few fouled skimmers today, all due to the rig getting pushed through, worm or triple maggot were the best bait, i think if the wind had only been half as strong, a decent weight would have been onthe cards, but it wasnt to be, i did get two carp down by the bush towards the end. I ended upmwith 29lb of skimmers and the three carp.went over 30lb, the skimmers were good enough for second in the silvers, beaten by travelling partner chris on peg 8 with 44lb.

Top weight today was taken by uncle julian on peg zero with over 140lb, so well done especially as he was in the face of the gale, that must have been uncomfortable.Weigh sheet blow, a bit damp but just about readable.

No alan quantrill today so i had a quid with, shane (the shane show) pope , so that was one up, and another with fishery boss john, so two up.

I aslo had one with tom thick, which i duly lost but managed to escape before i had to hand it over, LOL, see.you soon Tom .