Two days at the sedges

Sunday morning found chris fox and me heading down the a38 to fish pops pairs charity match for St Margaret,s hospice, a good cause. its a pairs match with one angler on brick lake and the other on tile, chris fancied a day on tile as he hadnt been on it for a while so that left me on brick for the same reasons, as normal jamie and denise did the draw, so i ended on 9 and chris on 37, both reasonable draws to be fair. I had phil clapp on peg 10 with his loopy spaniel, and one half of the slapper twins on my right in the shape of scott puddy, always pleasant . His partner ben hagg was next to chris on peg 38, first thing was to set up the pellet wag to fish towards.the central rope, ive always found on this lake that its possible to get a few.carp in the first hour on this. On the pole it was a rig to fish at depth at 14mtrs, and a shallow mugger.rig, just in case , a meat.rig for topset and two and a margin rig for under the tree to my right. My match sort of went to plan, i had three on the wag in the first 90minutes, i wouldnt normally give it that long but no one was catching much, then i had a couple on the 14 mtr on the deck ,and in the last coupke of hours j had 5 more on the short meat line along with 19lb of skimmers on meat, i ended up with 99lb which was second on the lake and second overall, jamie parkhouse was.topweight on the day off peg 11 with 112lb, scott on my right had 50+ poumds.for 4th on the lake, ben won tile.with 71lb meaning scott and him won the pairs with 5pts, after.that there were several pairs on 9 points, so it went to weight, so jamie parkhouse and paul homewood beat chris and me into 3rd, chris won the silvers on tile with over 30lb of skimmers and his two carp pushing his weght over 40lb, a njce event and there was £210 raised for the charity, so well done all , especially denise and jamie for organising it 👏👏👏. Weigh sheets below.

Sunday and i was off down the a38 but on my own today for the over 50,s silvers match on brick lake with an overflow onto tile if needed, which when i arrived after a pitstop in greggs was needed as 28 were fishing, an excellent turnout, i got into the draw queue early, but was a bit disappointed to have denise pull out peg one on brick for me, historically not a good skimmer peg, i tried to give steve kedge our pound side bet before he drew, he wouldnt take it , and certainty wasnt confident when peg 2 was pulled out for him, oh how i laughed,

At least we had a short walk, i wasnt going to fish any differently today, a fairly positive approach revolving around groundbait iver a couple of lines with some worm and caster in. Two rigs, one with a 16 hook for worm, and the other with an 18 for maggot or caster, at the start i cupped in one ball at 5 mtrs and two at 11, starting at 5 mtrs, never had a bite after 20 minutes, feared.the worse, went out to 11 mtrs, had a small skimmer, back out with the worm rig, and a.pound skimmer, i started.to catch , never hectic but enjoyable, then i had a bit of blow over the short line, , i had skimmers.there aswell, all.was.going well until the last 90minutes, when i only had two skimmers, one small one decent, i cant say it wasnt busy, it was, but the carp had found my bait, it was one a chuck till the end , i never landed any but by fishing .12 Hooklengths with soft hook, a managed to pull enough to open the hooks out, well that went well, i only lost three hooks during this carpfest. At the end i didnt know what I had, hopefully well over 20lb and maybe pushing 30. I was.first to weigh and was.really pleased.to put 34lb on the weigh sheet

, and my pound with kedgy was.safe as he had 18lb, as.i thought i was beaten on tile lake with weights of 37 and 39lb, also ade bishop on the other side of brick on 15 had 35lb, so 4 th off the peg i was happy with, at least i got some section money which went to paying for the day, so two nice days it was then, off to shiplate.on Thursday, then sunday the final round of the short pole match at Todber manor on hillview lake, best have a rsst before that one, weigh sheet from monday below.