Twice the bridesmaid

Sunday and it was off to Todber on hillview for the last short pole match, the riverside cafe at west stour is open from 8 so chris and me decided to give it a go, must say it was very nice , bit we had to rush it as it took 35 minutes to get to the table, i did tell them they needed to speed up a bit, i think they took it quite well. Luckily martin rayet had gone on ahead and collected nearly all the pools money, thanks matey, so i got the draw underway on time, nearly, i let mark cook draw my peg and he pulled out 61 for me, an end corner peg but not much ripple, on my left was ex venue ace mr rayet(lol) and on my right was mat Sheppard,

Only set up two rigs, one for just past my nets on just a topkit, and a margin rig for each side, again only a topkit distance, both hard pellet rigs, danger man in the section was always going to joe McMahon on peg 58, the hot peg at the mo, and with the benefit of peg 57 not drawn due to no show, ( i wont say who it was though, ok aaron) he was going to be hard to beat, and so it proved, hes caught from the off and had a steady match, ending up just short of 400lb so well done joe, i was second and two keepnets behind with a few ounces over 300lb, lee macey lead from the first match , and although he had a bit of a hard time in this match he did enough to still.win overall, with his travelling partner martin rayet coming second, all relevant sheets below.

Monday and back to the sedges in bridgwater for the monday silvers match, on tile today and if necessary an overspill onto brick, so with 28fishing both lakes were in, denise drew out peg 35 for me on tile lake, its a peg between two big willows, so in the shade all day with a strong north westerly wind blowing in, so presentation was going to tricky, so back to the van to get my bump bar. Two rigs, both 1grm, one with a 16 hook and the other with an 18, groundbait was.the normal, sensas lake, thatchers original and some brown crumb, plumbed up to fish 5 and 9 mtrs as it was the same bepth, so on the hooter i cupped in two balls on the short line and 3 on the long line, started.short and had a nice skimmer first.drop, and another smaller one after a short wait, but it was going nowhere, so i went out to the longer line, and ive caught some decent skimmers on and off all match, a.few.on worm but the best hook bait by far was.triple dead.red maggot, i thought i had about 35lb which I hoped would be there or there abouts, but adie bishop on 9 on brick was admitting to the same, we were both out a bit , but he put 41.5 on the scales.to my 40.12, so secomd again for me, sheet below.