Shiplate thursday costcutter

Accompanied by judith again today, which is always good. The broken arm is mending but its going to be another three weeks for her at least with the arm strappy thing on, we stopped at lillypool cafe again today, still very good, 4.85, its creeping up. Got there just before draw time, 18 fishing which is a nice number. John got the draw sorted, its pick your own off the table , i picked the one closest to me, opened it up to see zero on the paper, to coin a callum dicks quote, "it can be a good area sometimes", LOL 😂. To be fair its the peg everybody want as its the finest peg in Somerset, unfortunately to the detriment of peg 1. I wasnt moanimg thats for sure. The main area to catch in the peg is a small bay in the reeds opposite by a small feed pipe.

Also the right hand margin looks lovely, and has been a banker of late with meat being the killer bait.

So rigs today were a meat rig for the edge, a pellet rig for across in the little bay, and a deep rig and a mugger.for the open water in front. On the whistle I cupped in some pellets on the open water swim and some in the bay, i started on the deck infront, and had an 8lb common after a few minutes, just the job.

That was my only carp on the deck, i did have a skimmer, also bumped a couple of skimmers aswell. At least i wont have to clean my box, the geese, large and small took care of that.

There were some fish cruising about but they proved difficult to snare, i had a few , but not enough to do the peg justice, so two hours in and a switch to the little bay proved the right thing to do, i started catching regularly enough, and as far.as.i could see down the lake, it was hard today, so most of the match was spwnt in the bag, i fed meat down the margin all match, but nothing showed up there, i never had a bite on the occasions (3 times) i tried it. I caught on and off right up to the end, foulers were a problem at times, bit everyone who has been in the peg has suffered , so i wasnt to upset. I certainly misjudged.the size of the fish today, i thought i had about 160/70, but they went 204.11, but i went over the 70lb limit in two nets, losing about 15lb, but with aaron coming second with 75lb, it never mattered.

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