Bit late for these two

Been a bit pushed for time lately, with judith breaking her arm i dont seem to get much spare time after the cleaning, cooking washing etc, how judith managed to do it all and work full time is beyond me, so last weekend by way of a treat she accompanied me.to Shiplate for an open spread over the two canals, Judith did the social distancing draw and pulled out peg 9 on west pool for me, i had steve.seager to my right and lee Gregory to my left, 14 mtrs wide so not to uncomfortable,.there were some fish cruising about but to quickly as they were looking to spawn, but they never did on this lake, wheras on Hawthorn and the main lake they were having a bit of a pop, i set up a.rig for.mugging, only managed one on that, a margin rig, i had fish coming in but only had one there, steve.seager.had a few fishing back towards me to the empty peg between us, ut i couldnt see it due to vegetation, only one on the short meat line, plenty of fish on the far side, but i struggled to get one in the mouth, started feeding very carefully, foulers, upped the feed ,foulers, changed.from pellet to maggot, foulers, stopped feeding, nothing lol. I'm definitely putting that one down to bad angling, even judith was sat in her chair behind me taking the p%@s, i ended up with 6/7 carp for 30lb, the only reason i wasnt last on the lake was because mike hill packed up and left before the end. weigh sheets below, i walked back through the Carpark throwing pound coins up in the air for all to catch, at least that was how it felt 😂😯😂😂😂😂😂😂. Mat culpin was topweight on the day with 180lb off peg 10 on hawthorn, shallow on caster only feeding abojt 5 pints, alex murray(he's back)was second on the day from west pool 12 with just over 100lb.

onto thursday and it was back on the same lakes, stopped at lillypool cafe for breakfast and it was very nice, and they have done some alterations to the eating area, much bigger now and brighter,

The draw was a help yourself affair off the table, i picked up peg 7 on hawthorn, ideal to be fair, got to the peg and there looked to be plenty of fish mooching around so i thought a shallow / mugging day may be in order, so a couple of rigs for that, i had emptied my freezer of all the maggot and caster i had, so ended up with about 4 pints of rubbish to off load.also.a margin rig, a 5 mtr meat rig and a couple of pellet rigs for the far side.

Started.down the middle over the loosefed maggot !ine, and had a 7lb fish first drop, an bour in and i was on 3 fish, so not going to plan, althiugh the fish had finished spawning, they didnt seem to be in the mood to feed, most of my fish were caught on the far bank on 8mm hard pellet kver loosefed 6,s, not that i had enough, ended up with 82lb, whuch was second on the lalke behind john andres with over 90lb, and tom thick with 85lb, so close but one and two fish behind the people ahead of me, there were two weights over 100lb on west pool, paul faiers and aaron britnell being first and second, so well done to them, weigh sheets below.