Three to go

A round up of my last three matches, firstly it was down to todber to fish homeground with the bristol massive who were staying at viaduct , they invited me along, which was nice, but i dont think they had any scales(ulterior motive lol), it was meant to be a 9.30 draw but due to an accident on the 303 i think it ended being about 10.30. The draw got underway with all hoping for peg 90, the best peg in the uk by far, that pleasure fell to that notorious drawbag , Martin rayet, and being a good angler that would be first place sorted.then, i pulled out 81 which is the left hand corner peg, always good for a days fishing. A plus for the day was seeing a pair of red kites , probably the furthest south and west i have seen them.

well as i said i was going to have a good days fishing, and i did, only 2 carp short in the first 30 minutes, so to slow there, out to 11 mtrs and shallow, had a few but two hours in and 30lb in the net, and with plenty being caught on pegs 85 to 90 anglers on our bank seemed.to be struggling, i had been feeding maggots in the left margin, and pellet in the right, so the last three hours were spent either side, i stopped feeding maggots and fed 6 mm hard pellets instead , and the peg was.getting better all the time, but it was always going to be to late, and so it proved, the pegs from 85 to 90 dominated with martin winning easily with 384lb, well done, i ended up with 240, which is good in any ones book, so no complaints from except me tennis elbow was a tad sore. A picture of martin with some of his fish and the weigh sheet.

Sunday and it was round two of the float only league, 40 fishing so we were allowed to spread the pegging over the 4 lakes, so a big thanks to fishery for letting us do that. Not to fussed as to where i drew, but was happy with 3 on hawthorn, big john andres.to my.right , and the slight john fry to my left, definitely opposite extremes. I was happy with the peg as i could get tight in to the far bank , i love rat holes fishing in very shallow water, love seeing tails and backs stuck up out of the water, a proper challenge, it turned out to be a hard day, i had two fish short on meat , and the rest across on the mud , ended up with 87lb which won my section and was top weight on the lake, best on the day was dan white standing in for trig, he had 148lb mainly down the edge , he was on peg 13 main lake, second went to tom mangnal on 13 west pool with 128, best silvers went to dave lewis on 7 main lake with 51lb of meat caught skimmers, well done all,

then today i went back to the sedges for the monday silver,s, and today.we.were.on the canal lale , a tough one for silvers and if anyone had 20lb, that should be there or there abouts, denise and jamie did the draw, denise drew out peg 52 for me and apologised, lol. Top right hand corner, historically not the best as far as silvers go, but it looked nice, plenty of features , even an aerater.to fish towards.

Ive had a tough day, had a few silvers, and i mean a few aswell in the first couple of hours then the carp turned up and evertime the float went under ive had elastic going all over, i did get.an eel.of about 12/14 oz towards the end, but the carp were rampant. Im going to have to tie some.more, 😬. I had 4.10 which won my section, but as expected it was won from the other end , where clive mills on 41 had 9.4, so a hard day for all as the weigh sheet below shows. Next monday and i am running a match at acorn, so get in tough if you fancy fishing.