This weeks roundup

To start i was at shiplate for round three of mat culpins teams of three rip off league. Mybturn to be on the main lake, mat on hawthorn and bob g on westpool, but before the draw it was breakfast in a box cooked by jess, and still a nice meal, no complaints, (4.8), perhaps tinned tomatoes may be good (jess). Bob did our draw and he pulled out peg 11 for me, its a nice peg with a island to fish off the end of, and a nice bush down to the left which can be a good fish holding area.

So a wag and a lead rod for the end of the island in 2 foot of water, a rig to fish meat down to the bush to the left, and a rig for the skimmers with corn hookbait for 13 mtrs.i began trying for skimmers with corn onthe 13 mtr line, had a few but nit quick enough, i had been fedding hard 8,s to the island, and it wasnt to long before i saw a tail pattern or two, so apart from a couple of sorties down by the bush which gave me a couple of good skimmers, and a very shirt spell on the lead out by the island , ive fished the wag mostly, catching fairly steadily , but not mad by any standards, but i ended upnwith 140lb which was good enough for second on the lake and second on the day, paul nicholls on peg 8 had a good day and put 209lb on the scales, well done, top silvers went to craig Edmunds on 3 main lake with 55lb of skimmers on meat.

Monday and back down tthe a38 to bridgwater and monday silvers match, which this week was on tile lake, brekkie in the fishery cafe was nice, still doing a social distancing draw here so i had ping pong 29 pulled out for me, wasnt to impressed as i drew it the last time the silvers match was on here and hooked more carp than skimmers, it was a wet day and breezy, so i fished two lines, 6 and 11 mtrs, both with maggot over caster in groundbait, it was a hard day with carp again making there presence felt, but i managed enough skimmers to end up with 29lb off peg 29 for the win , beating chris rolf into second with his 26lb, downside is i now need to sit down and tye more hooks 😕😕

Thursday now and back to shiplate and another nice jess brekfast, into the draw and todays peg was 12a, most of the swims have plenty of room but this one is a little bit tighter than most Again today i set up a corn rig for 13 mtrs but only a few 8oz skimmers on that, a margin rig, nothing on that, a short meat rig and a wag to fish on the deck with banded 8mm pellet over hard 8,s, most of the day was again spent on the wag, catching odd carp, whic as far as i coukd see was better than most, the meat line started to show signs of life about 45minutes from the end and i had three carp and a good skimmer on that. Ended up with 115lb for first on the day, top silvers went to nigel bartlett on my left with just over 30lb.