Three more

Firstly last sunday and it was the first of the Landsend winter leagues, nice breakfast at the fishery cafe to start the day 4.6. The draw nearly got underway on time, and i pulled out ball 55 from ades bag of doom, top left hand corner on lake three. Wouldnt have chosen that as its been a tough one lately, for company i had beany to my right and nick duckett opposite on peg 58, which is a favourite of mine, its been really tough today , onky a handful of small roach on caster, that was after a bit of bread dobbing around the end bank for one roach, the only place i could get bites was at 16mtrs towards the island on banded pellet, small crucian, teo f1,s and three carp in the last 30 minutes from the same line, i did also get one carp on meat down the right hand margin, to be honest it was hooked in the tough bit of the tail, but i will take them anyway I can on a hard day, ended up with 21lb for 5th on the lake so not a total disaster, tip weight onnthe lake and in the match was taken by jason radford with 8 or 9 carp for over 50lb, some on the pole at the start ten a few more on the lead, it was a tough day all round as the weigh sheets below show.

monday and itn was the sedges silver,s match on tile lake today, again another good breakfast at the fishery, 4.65. Then i had peg 38 drawn for me, good peg but the general conscientious was that the further up the lake you were . The more chance of skimmers. And so it proved with adie bishop running out and easy winner with over 20lb from peg 32, with eric fouracre and steve kedge coming second and third from opposite, made a mistake not taking a feeded.rod today as most started on it and caught some early fish on it, i only fished the pole and it took me 90 minutes to get my first fish, a small roach, that was at 13 mtrs, but i had to got to 16 mtrs to catch, only.ending up with 6lb+ , but still managed.to beat quite a few, but paid the price for leaving the tip rod at home, wegh sheet below.

Thursday and back to plantation main lake for a silvers only match, breakfast in the bridge in yatton, very nice, as long as you have extra bacon instead of the sausages, cos they aint nice. so 4.4. 18 fishing so plenty of room , had des shipp fishing again today, he was hoping not to draw peg 1 again as he struggled. There last time, but i did try and convince him it can be a good roach peg as you have plenty of water to go at, so when he drew one again you csn imagine how blue the air went, it didnt help matters when several people had a laugh, but having run winter matches for a few years on this venue, i now full well that it can produce the goods, but not according to todays tenant, i was on 25 this time, with mike nicholls on 24 and mark broomsgrove on 27, last match i caught really well fishing short, plenty of roach on caster, but not today i only had one fish from that line all match, mike Nicholls haf a few fishing a 4 mtr whip with caster, but ive had to catch at 11 and 13 mtrs, with caster or maggot over groundbait, ending up with 21lb which was good enough for forth, oh and guess who won from crap peg 1😂😂😂😂😂😂, yep , des managed to moan out a nice net if mainly roach for just over 30, cracking fish.

Mark broomsgrove on 27 haf 26lb and dave willmott on 19 had 24lb, there were still a coupke of difficult areas as the wegh sheet below, but most people had double figures, which just goes to show what an excellent silvers venue this is, and james travis is working hard to improve it all the time , tidying the banks up and replacing platforms, well done,

I thunk des may like peg 1 now, i had a quick look at the swim after the match, and found a couple of odd items in the swim,

but dont worry des i have got them in the van so i can return them to you at the next match, unless you need them before that and i will gladly post them to you, but then again you probably buy them in bulk.😆😆😉😉