This weeks roundup

Shiplate on sunday for mat Culpin,s teams of three rip off, breakfast roll at the fishery which was very nice as always, my turn to be on hawthorn lake today, and the team draw put me on peg 3, which i wasnt to upset about , especially when peg 4 isnt in, company today was aaron britnell to my left on 2 and mark thorn on 5, ive had the peg before and caught well across to the far side, there is a nice shelf just over a foot deep which was ok, so a pellet rig for there, a maggot rig for on the deck down the middle, a meat rig for topset and two, then a rig to fish maggot over and micro and maggot feed down by pallet 4, on the all in i fed each lines and started.across , there were fish coming over the feed but as soon as the rig went in they backed off, obviously not happy in the shallow water, i did manage one, bit i lost a couple of foulers, one on the deep maggot line, it was definitely an off day for the lake as it was impossible to catch even a small fish on maggot anywhere in the peg, with about 90 minutes to go, aaron was on 9 carp with me on 4, but luckily fo me the margin in peg 4 had a few turn up in it, i ended with 9 carp so it was tight between me and aaron for the quid, it turned out there were a few of us with 9 carp, with steve brown having 10, so he won the section with 60lb, so the rest of us with 9 so it was quite close, all the weigh sheet below, as a team we did ok even with mat culpin trying to drag us down, well done bob gullick on winning on the day with 150lb, luckily in our team.

Monday and off down the A38 to the sedges in bridgwater, todays silver match was on the canal, im not going to waste to much time on this match, the best part of the day was definitely in the fisheries new cafe, nice food and very reasonably priced, (4.7).drew.peg 50 caught 1lb 4oz and left pretty sharpish, rob eagles on 58 won with 9lb and steve kedge on 59 was second with 8lb. It was a really hard day for most and my.meagre.weight actually beat a few LOL 😂 THE END now Thursday at shiplate for the weekly costcutter, good news is , jess now does a full breakfast, small/large or XL, i went for the large which was plenty , and i will give it a 4.8. First in the draw tin, out comes peg two, happy with that, but again it was a difficult day, the fish didnt seem to want to stay on the island in the shallower water, ive ended the day wit 8 carp and a few skimmers, ive had 4 at 16 mtrs close to the island, one from the right hand margin and 3 to my left at the bottom of the margin rocks, my 8 carp.went 87lb and my few.skimmers 7 for 94lb which was only good enough for third on the day, chris timms drew peg 4 again for the second match running and made.no mistake winning again with 110lb catching mainly to his left just off the left hand margin on meat over corn, well done , and alan quantrill on 11 was second with 104lb, si silvers went to nigel bartlett with 35lb. Got to mention the weed cutter made by lee murphy which screws onto the cupping kit, first time ive used it properly today, and it made short work of silvers a couple of nuisance brambles on the island, very good. also i have been using some Berkeley line for putting my rigs on, £6.99 for 300mtrs, whats not to like, available at premier angling in keynsham, huge range of sizes and breaking strains.

Weigh sheet below as normal, again a close match where one or two fish could have made.all the difference