Short pole and sedges silvers

First off sunday we were at chilton trinity on woodland lake again for this the third round, kev winstone drew.for me and handed me the fabled peg 2, i was already counting the money!!!. Its the first peg on the left hand end bank, looking back uo the lake with with a stellar right hand margin which is guaranteed to produce carp.

Well im not going to dwell on this, iether the carp which normally inhabit this peg were having an off day, or i did something massively wrong, i willl never know , nust that i caught very little, 7 small carp and a few skimmers for 34lb, no good at all, it was that bad i even had to give Kev Winstone a quid as he beat me by a few ounces, the match was won by des,s big brother vince shipp on peg 13 with just over 100lb, catching mainly in his left hand margin, and silvers went to Ricky Mills on peg 25 with 40lb.those anglers and the weigh sheet below.

Monday and i decided to go back to the sedges for the over 50,s silver,s match, thus week it was on the canal, not everyone's favourite, but its nice to have a bit of a struggle from time to time, and with 10lb being a realistic target weight, there are plenty of swims where this is attainable, denise did the draw and pulled my second flyer in two days, peg 42, second peg in on the far bank with a ig overhanging willow to the left,

I had jess jordan to my right on end peg 41 which can be good, as long as the carp dont come out of the reeds on the end bank, but they did ha ha. I opted for three lines to fish worm over groundbait, two at 7mtrs 11 and 1o'clock, and the other to my left just in front of the tree, same depth on all lines so one rig did all, i did set up a margin rig for the left against the bank as john andres drew this last time and a couple of decent silvers from there, but not today just a couple of roach and a perch, and some carp towards the end, i purposely only fished down the middle, as i felt if i went to far across carp would come away from the far bank and be a problem. The first couple of hours wet well catching odd skimmers from each line along with a small tench and some proper crucians, i took a picture of one so as people can see the difference between an f1, a carasio and an original proper crucian, with all its pink fins and golden scales.

After that the carp discovered the bait and became a problem, landing 8 and losing another 4 or 5, but i did get a few.more skimmers towards the end, ending with over 16lb which was enough to win on the day, and i managed to dry all my kit out from the day before at chilton, catch shot and weigh sheet below as normal, back to the sedges again on sunday for rnd 3 of the float only league, pegs 10/11 or 40 would be nice 😁😁😁😂.