4 matches and brief

First off, last sunday and it was the final round of mat culpins teams of three at shiplate, my turn on hawthorn lake, needed a peg with a bit of room preferably, and got my wish, peg3, rod Wooten on my left on peg 2, Jamie parkhouse on the right on 5. So peg 4 not in so and option to go there towards the end of the match, plan today was to start on bread just off the far bank, then switch to maggot , maggot down in front of 4, and maggot down the middle, bob gullick on 7 main lale and our leader Mat Culpin peg 1 west pool. it all started.well withba carp first put in on the dobbing bread, end of the first hour and i had three carp in the net, and doing well at my end of the lake, then it got hard, i had 4 more on maggot off the far line and two down by peg 4, did well at my end of the lake but as the weigh sheet shows there seemed to be more carp in the middle of the lake

Our team went into the match with a 12 point buffer, and we ended up twenty points clear, so a nice payday for us, well.done to bob gullick who scored most of our points, and even mat came good in the end with a lake win., Steve howell won on the day from hawthorn 7 with over 70lb, sp well.done, and i think he even had most of them in the mouth.

monday and attempted to run a match at acorn , but only 6 fished, wont dwell on that, paul faiers had a nice day on peg 9 catching silvers on caster to win with 22lb , well done paul, i was second with a few carp and silvers for 15lb on peg 13, i will.hold my hands up to having some assistance from a fouled 8lb common.

Thursday and back to huntstrete for the fortnightly coffin dodgers match, into the bag of doom and out comes peg27, good peg for sure, but with the water being clear, you could see the bottom of the keepnet,i feared the worst. for company I had dave (topset diddly bonk)haines on 26, and phil(fizzy) morgan on 28, dave asked for a quid side bet, which i duly accepted, ut he wanted it on silvers only, oh well, that would have to do then. I have caught on this peg on bread across to the island, but didnt really expect that to be good today, and i was right , 30 minutes in and not even a liner, luckily i had fed some groundbait at 13 mtrs.with some caster in, and i started getting indications straight away, but bites were hard to get, i persevered and had a few.better skimmers, and roach, mainly.on single caster, i also had a couple of f1,s in three foot of water away from the island and 1 small carp, ended up with 17lb, 7lb of silvers and ten pounds of carp, , won £20 for my.efforts and the all important quid off hainer.

Sunday again and first round of ron hardiman,s silvers league, this one at shiplate on the main lake, breakfast at cafe fox was excellent as ever , 4.95. Got to the fishery in plenty of time, most people wanted a draw on the far side , just to try and get a bit of shelter from the gusty north westerly. The draw wasnt kind, peg 7 , wind blowing in and across from the right, very cold to say the least. Trainee silver angler on my right kev winstone, who luckily for seems to have plenty of pound coins in the ash tray in his car.he did manage a quid off me on Thursday, but only because i had to give him change from a two pound coin 😳😂😂. i fed two lines on the pole at 11 and 13mtrs, two balls of groundbait on each with a few casters and pinkies in, i gave the feeder half an hour, but not even a tremble, so that was binned, first out in and a 2lb on pinkie, then a small roach, then not a touch for an hour, paul(dead in the head)elmes had a run of skimmers on the feeder on 12a, also clint wojtyla on 12 had snuck a couple out aswell, but not in my section so not to worried, the last two biurs were not to bad, i haf a few better skimmers and small roach, enough to keep me interested, presentation was difficult, and i think if i hadnt used the pole bump bar j wouldnt have caught as much, kev wandered up for a bit of coaching, and had a few skimmers when he went back, i ended with 6 decent skimmers and small roach for 13.13, enough for a section win and thurd on the day, clint was top on the day with 19lb to pauls 18lb, weigh sheet below.