An improving three

Sunday and it was off to Shiplate again for the mat Culpin teams of three rip off league. No jess at the fishery today to cook breakfast as she had a weekend off to celebrate her 20th birthday, a bit thoughtless really 😂😂. Travelled with Chris fox so cafe fox did us proud with a couple of good breakfast rolls(4.70). Any way my turn on the main lake, so bob gullick did our team draw and handed me peg 7, happy with that as its been a good area of late for carp, and as our team (no calamities) was winning the league it was just a carp attack today. So meat.at 5mtrs just off to the left, same.at 13 mtrs, a margin rig for maggot on the rocks close in, a wag and pellet.for on the deck at 25 mtrs, a lead.rod, and a pellet.for 13 mtrs to the left at.the bottom of the rocks,

Well, nothing on the wag as the wind and tow was going the same way, nothing on the lead as i get bored to quick, all the time i was blanking on on these methods jamie parkhouse on the left was catching on the method to the island, and martin rayet on the right was catching on the meat short. I eventually had a couple of carp on the 13 mtr line, ut by now Jamie was catching on the pole and martin was still catching on the meat short, ive had a hard match to be fair but i have done thing wrong today and have recieved a proper spanking, beaten like a step child severly each side, jamie ony doubled my weight with 230lb and martin the other side had 216, i haf 115lb which was only good enough for 5th on the lake, luckily Bob gullick won west pool with 120lb, and mat is improving with 7points off Hawthorn, so we are still top of the leafue and mamaged.to stretch out lead to 12 points, weigh sheets below.

Monday and off down the a38 again to the sedges for the silvers match, breakfast at the fishery cafe, all nice (4.8), on brick lake today and i fancied a draw on pegs 1 to 10, as the trip would be against the wind given the wind direction, but after.laughing at steve kedge for drawing peg 15, cold wing blowing in and across from the left, i end up with peg 14, so a cold uncomfortable day for us then, the other bank had flat.water with a favourable tow, a couple of one gram rihs made up one with a 16 hook and the other an 18, it was difficult today to get any sensible presentation, i fished two lines, 5 and 11 mtrs, feeding balls of caster laced groundbait fairly regularly, and had a few fish off eaxh line before refeeding, again carp were a problem as the match progressed, but it looked as though it was hard today for all, chris rolf over on the Majorca bank was sneaking a few out, by the end i new i had double figures but was pleasantly surprised to weigh 15.5, not quite enough as mr.rolf had 15.8 for a narrow win, well done chris, i wont mention that i beat steve kedge on 15 for the quid, weigh sheets below as normal

Thursday and back to shiplate on the main lake, jess back in attendance today looking none the worse for getting wrecked at the weekend, good breakfast and as she now does tinned tomatoes i will give her a 4.89. I drew peg 14 for myself, and had clayton hudson on my right and paul faiers on my left,

One pole rig to fish meat at 5 and 13 mtrs again, a margin rig for each side but didnt try it as the water had lost a lot of colour and we had had a lot of rain and some frosts which didnt help and lastly the trusty wag rod to fish 8mm hard pellet on the deck, i did get a carp of about 7lb after about 30 minutes, and a skimmer, but apart from one skimmer and a couple of lost foulers on the pole, the last couple of hours were spent on the wag, which i had to fish about 18inches over depth to slow it up, but i managed 8 more carp on that to nearly 20lb so not to bad, it fished hard, i reckoned on having 80lb , and really close on the guestimation today as my nine carp went 80lb and the lone skimmer was 1lb so 81lb total, enough to win today, with john andres on 11 coming second with 57lb, top silvers went to paul on my left with 14lb, pics etc below.