Monday silvers match, sedges canal.

With this weeks match on the canal ot was a smaller match, only 15 i think, its always a bit more difficult than the bigger lakes, with 15lb seemingly a good target to win or frame, to be honest i enjoy it, it does you good to have a struggle from time to time, the lake is stuffed with fish bit they seem to switch off in matches, possibly the fish may get a bit spooky on match days, who knows. anyway denise and jamie did the draw and i found myself on peg 58, which is the peg at the end of the causeway between tike and brick lake, its quite a narrow peg only just over 11 mtrs wide, but i had no intention of going anywhere near the far side as i wanted to avoid the carp for as long as possible.

I set up a .4g wire stem float to fish topset and two and topset and four, as it was the same depth, also a .3g carbon stem for a topset line iether side of my net, also i know there is a good head of eels in here which hardly ever show but if i coukd sneak one or two it may be a proper bonus, so i set up a heavy rig to fish 9mtrs to my right down the middle. At the start I cupped in one ball of groundbait with some worm and caster in on the short line, and two balls on the longer line, started feeding caster on the two topset lines and cupped in some dead maggots on the eel line, starting short i had a small skimmer straight away then a short while later a better one, then i had a fairly good rhn of skimmers off that line, so i was doing ok as far as i could see, i had steve jackson opposite who was struggling, apart from steve i couldnt really see anyone else due to the reeds and foliage, so it was difficult to tell how it was fishing, the longer.line wasn't to good, i only had a golden tench from there and two skimmers, one of whuch was a bit lucky as the 2lb skimmer had a method hooklength in its mouth and my hook was through the eye of the swivel, how can anyone bust off on a skimmer.

Back on the short line i had another golden tench and some more skimmers, ut carp had begun to make there presence felt, my eel line was fizzing so i went over that and had a carp, i tried again, but thus time i had a good skimmer, followed by three more in the next three put ins, then back to carp, and i had no more silvers from there, and definitely no eels, just carp. I had the same thing on the left hand topset line, five good skimmers and a golden tench from that line quickly, then carp again, so the last part of the match was spent on the topset and two line where i managed a few more silvers but carp rocked up big time meaning the end of my match really, but knowing i had over 20lb i thought i had enough, when the scales got to me 13lb+ was winning so when i put iver 27lb on the scales i was fairly confident of not being beaten, and thats what happened, i had a nice day with single caster being the best hook bait by far today, even though i had put some worm in i never had one fish on it, weigh sheet below.