Thursday costcutter, shiplate main lake

Back to this well stocked fishery today, looking forward to it even mkre as the food wagon was having its first days trading doing breakfast rolls, cooked by jess, and very good to, dont normally guve scores for rolls but i will as it was lovely, so a 4.70 on the rixter scale, good value for money, hot and quick so no complaints from me or anyone else who has a roll. as normal john got the draw underway and I pulled out peg 15, end peg on the far bank, good for carp aswell as silvers, company today was merv clark on 14b and across the water on 1 was dave cocayne who has been away for a while not fishing due to a nasty car crash, but good to see him back, hopefully his peg would produce today as zero wasnt in. 15 looked good as normal with a good left hand margin for carp, and it was a toss up whether to go for carp in front or silvers, i opted to start on silvers in front on worm over groundbait, and feed 6,s down the left at 14 mtrs towards the corner.

Its always a difficult decision on here as to whether carp or silvers are to be targeted, dificult to do well in both unless both targets turn up on the short meat line, but i do enjoy fishing decent pieces of worm, today it was difficult as a strong right to left wind was pushing the rig through, i had a few but was fouling a few , i stopped that as i thought i would be well behind the anglers on the other bank as the trip was against the wind making for good presentation. So the rest of the match was spent down the left fishing banded 8 over hard 6,s, catching fairly well but i should have done one or the other, oh well always next.time, i ended up with 140lb, which just short of 20lb was silvers, and my.margin carp were definitely on the small size as my biggest fish was about 8lb with the smallest about 1 1/2 lb, not enough of iether for a pickup, third on the day but only 2 paid iut in both, venue slapping expert gary flinders won on peg 13b with 190lb.

Co!in on peg 2 was second with 159lb , me.third and good to see peg 1 do ok with dave coco having over 130lb. Silvers.went to pete zimniak on peg 4 with 47lb of corn caught skimmers, well.done.