Thursday shiplate

Back on the main lake today which is nice as you have a good bit of water in front of you to go at, jess had the breakfast roll wagon open and very nice it was , bacon,egg,sausage and hash brown, all very nice , 4.75, good news is that she will be doing full breakfasts from next week. roll devoured just in time for draw time, into the bucket and out comes the only.peg i didnt fancy, peg 9, my.drawing arm seems.to have.deserted me.a.little bit of late. The peg looks good with an island out at about 40mtrs, bit it is very shallow, better suited to lead chucking, but not for me, wag it was then.

Also assembled was.a.pellet rig for 14 mtrs, a silvers rig for 11 mtrs, and lastly a margin rig to fish along the left hand side, normally.you can catch quite short but not today , the only place i could get in tight enough was at 13 mtrs, and only.then if i lent forward , definitely needs a.prune.

On the whistle i put some groundbait at 11 mtrs some pellets at 14 and began firing some 8,s to the island, (occasionally wind allowing), starting on the silvers line i had a 6oz skimmer first drop, then next put in a small eel, not a good sign. I gave it an hour on that for about 3lb, so not good , i went out to the island and had a couple of carp(small) quite quickly, but that was the only two from there, i gave it a really good go but even though there were carp over there i couldnt get a bite on the float, i should have bitten the bullet and thrown the lead out, but i never, probably cost myself (again), next time. As for the pole and pellet line all i had was one skimmer, so that was no good. I tried the groundbait line on and off and had a few.small skimmers, but i was going nowhere fast as far as silvers went , i did manage one carp down the edge and five more on the wag towards the trees to my left, along with a couple of tench and two better skimmers.

Alan quantrill won on the day on peg 1 (again), not saying he draws it very often but its now got AQ1 on the peg number, and there are 20 notches in the fence behind ,probably be 21 next week, well done , and another quid off me, but i call it a hollow victory as you chucked the method LOL 😂😂😂.

Top silvers went to ron stark on 15 with a shade over 30lb, nice one ron, picture