A brief roundup of last weeks matches

With a lack of matches locally , i ran a small match on lake three at Landsend, as always a good breakfast at the fishery, (4.8), so set up and ready to go, got the draw underway and waited till the end when there was only two pegs left, i let Clayton Hudson draw mine and out comes peg 70, leaving my favourite peg on the lake ,58 for Rod wootten, last time I let hum draw for me. My peg does look nice with a big weedbed to my right, a snag pit margin to my left and a bank of mud straight out, but at least i was sat in the sun, unlike the pegs opposite who would be in the shade, so t shirts my bank and thermals opposite 😂😂.

Initially I set up rigs for the far side mud, a right hand margin, one to the weedbed and a mugger.as.there were some fish up sunbathing , and a rig to fish small pellet for silver,s. Company today was.rich major on 68, clayton opposite on 41 and beany on 42. All in called and i started at 9 mtrs for silvers, that was a waste if time, 30 minutes in and two roach and a small crucian, so mugging it was then, but with the water temps falling now even that was hard,i managed.a.few but for everyone that took the bait, probably about ten just turned away, fish were coming into the margin but were sketchy to say the least, then withnabout 2 hours to go i took the 14 mtr section off to try and catch a cruiser, swung the pellet round and my 13 mtr section snapped in half, for no apparent reason,( well thats what customers have always said over the years😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂).so ive got.a.spare which i thought i had with me, nope, home in the shed, doh. So last ootion was the left hand margin, i chose a spot at my now limit of 11 mtrs, and managed a few small resident fish, aswell as losimg a few which i expected. Ended up with awhat i thought would be about 65lb, started.the weigh in opposite, and it was apparent that it had been hard for all those on the far bank sat in the shade, the first peg in the sun, rod on peg 58(mine) had just over 90lb to win,catching mainly short on pellet, as he does,steve seager(yes steve seager) on 61 haf 79lb for second with me coming third with 68lb. Chris fox on 46 shivered 12lb of silvers to take that prize fishing maggot short.

Monday and off the sedges for the silvers match, today was the first day with the fishery cafe being open, i never knew so i stopped at the normal burger van at silverfish, which was still very nice, todays draw put me on 29, i dont generally mind where i draw in this lake as the skimmers can be well spread out,

But today as i was sat on the majorca bank again the carp were in residence in numbers, its cost me plenty if hooks today, ending up with 21lb, just ounced out of the section, well done jess jordan on flyer carp peg winning with 38lb, with steve kedge coming second on 32 with 31lb,

lastly and it was Thursday at shiplate for the weekly costcutter, 18 fishing so a good number on the big lake, as always jess in the bacon butty wagon did a very good roll, a good way to start the day, into the draw bucket and out comes peg 8, next to where i was last week(9), made an error last week by not setting up a tip rod as there were a lot of fish on the island, but with it being so shallow my.perseverance with the wag was not the way to go, so i left the wag in the bag , out with the rusty tio rod,

Other than that it was a margin rig for each side, a pellet rig for 14mtrs and a rig for under the tree to my right at the bottom of the margin shelf,i will make this short ive had 4 on the tip to the island, losing two to a snag by the aerator, and two came off, possibly fouled,, ive had three on the pole about halfway through, one from the right hand margin and another on the long line towards the end, so ending up with 9 carp and a skimmer for 82lb, and no good(just the quid off alan quantrill on peg 9), chris timms on peg 5 won with 115lb on peg 4 fishing the tea bag, second was paul faiers on peg zero with just over 100lb, on worm over micros, silver were won by ron stark on 15 with 48, beating nigel bartlett on 2 who had 41lb, off to shiplate again sunday for mat culpins teams of 3 , my turn on Hawthorn, looking forward to that