This week

Sunday and it was mat culpins teams of three rip off, penultimate round, my turn on west pool, after a nice jess breakfast (4.8) it was draw time and i told bob i wanted any peg at the far end or peg 5, i really feel as though an empty peg next to you is an advantage on this pool, so he draws me peg 6, this is the third time we have drawn this sequence of pegs in the series so far, unfortunately the pegs are in either side. Bob gullick had it last time and won the lake from it, but he had Paul faiers on his left trying to catch silvers, not like that foe me today, jamie parkhouse on my left and paul nichols on my right, it turned out to be as difficult as i expected, ob had a lot of bis carp at 11 mtrs on maggot, but i only had one skimmer from that line, and lost a fouler, my only fish came from tight over on meat, ending up with 44lb which was enough only for 5th on the lake, quite happy with that, paul winning the lake from peg 5 with over 80lb, well done. Good to mike duckett fishing, hes had a bad leg recently, so i enquired as to how it was progressing, really good he said, changed his medication by all accounts with the doctor prescribing a stronger course of anti "imflammables" legend. Weigh sheets below as normal, luckily we can still rely on bob gullick to carry us through again withanother la lake win from peg 1 on Hawthorn, and with mat even helping with five points from the main lake the team won on the day mgiving us a 12 point buffer going into the last round on sunday week, but i know it could always go horribly wrong, seen it before.😬😬

Monday and i ran a match at. Acorn down at Kingston Seymour, not been here for a long while, was going to run a match here a couple of months back, tested positive for the covid on the morning so that was cancelled, fairplay to the Chinese, they havnt given us many things that have lasted this long😣😕😷😷. Only ten of us so only used pegs 1 to 21 so empty peg each side for everyone, thanks to the fishery for letting us use every other peg. Had breakfast in the bridge and it was nice , dont have the sausages go for the extra bacon instead, rubbish sausages. I had the last peg and ended up on 19, not a peg of choice, andy gard.to my left on bridge peg 21 and beany on my right on 17 not expecting to do to well today and i never. Had 18lb of silvers and a few carp for just over 50lb, maggot was the best bait today down the middle, and some from up by empty pag 20. Martin rayet made no mistake on peg 11 with just over 100lb, catchimg on soft pellet over micros across to begin with, then on worm over micros down his left hand margin towards the end, alan quantrill on peg 3 was second with 93lb, and darren (daiwa)knight on 5 was third with 60+, paul faiers wan the silvers with 24lb from peg 1, proper silvers aswell, i dont allow f1,s or carasio thingy,s to count as silvers, they go in a net with small.carp. Weigh sheet below.

Thursday and Shiplate again for the costcutter, 19 fishing so every peg in, jess doing breakfast again, so 4.89 as the tomatoes were hot today, first to draw and pulled out peg 13, a peg on the far side which is what i fancied as the wind would be more favourable for fishing the waggler. So got to the peg and set up very little really, a margin rig just in case some fish showed up, but they never, probably to clear and cold now, a meat rig for 8 and 14mtrs, this swim is very shallow till you get to 8mtrs, where it drops down to full depth, and of coarse a wag to fish banded 8mm pellet on the deck at about 25/30mtrs, Started on the meat on the pole, ut apart from a lost fouler, that was my lot , so after an hour i was out on the waggler, started getting indications and liners from the off, but the fish took a while to settle, the last couple of hours were the best landing several carp up to about 12lb, including a nice grass carp of about 11/12lb, as.these fish dont like being messed about with to much you only get 10lb for one if you catch one.

On the all out i thought i had 90lb, wasnt to far out as my carp and lone tench went 94lb, it was a hard day for most as dom Sullivan was second with 37lb, he aslo had the best silver weight with 11lb, weigh sheet etc below.