Two days in kingston seymour

Sunday and were off to plantation main lake for the second round of ron hardiman,s silvers league, breakfast with Chris fox in the bridge in yatton, very good 4.5. Got to the lake in plenty of time, ron got the draw underway, he asked me to draw for him, he wont ask again, peg 39 for him, nice carp peg LOL 😂, he then drew for me and pulled me out peg 24, happy as i had won off the peg a couple of weeks ago on a Thursday match, nice peg as its got a nice new wooden platform, and looking at the water it was noticeable that there was a slight tinge of colour compared to Thursday. Nice easy peg to fish as its the same depth at topkit and one out to 13 mtrs, so onky two rigs, a .4g double bulked, and a.3g shotted to fish bulked initially, but with the option to spread the shot if necessary, last time here i caught roach and decent skimmers on topset and one and topset and two, plus a few on the longer lines, but the water was a bit clearer, so not convinced it would be the same, but still attacked it the same, 2 balls of groundbait at 11mtrs, and three at 13 mtrs. All laced with caster and a few pinkies. I started on topset and two feeding caster with the same on the hook, ive had a roach first put in, followed by more, so i came closer and kept catching, so i spread the shot and fished to hand, laying the rig straight out in front, and ive had a nice 2 hiurs catching roach steadily, but it didnt last more than the two hours, but it was good while it lasted, i did follow them out for a while to topset and two, but it wasnt long before they went from there aswell, so out on the skimmers it was then, which unfortunately never really happened, when i did get one, which wasnt very often, it would only be a small one, the biggest i had was about a pound, the roaxh cameback inthe last hour on the topset and two line, so a nice days fishing but none of the quality skimmers for me which you need to do well on the venue, but i still ended up with 26lb, of which 20lb was roach, a cracking day, but only good enough for 4th in the section and 7th on the day, topspot went to leon(peter pan) hubbard on 28 with 38lb, after that therer was two 32lb with kev winstone just ouncing ryan jordan out of second from pegs 11 and 4 respectively, well done all , a good match as the sheet below shows,

Monday and back down to kingston again for a knock up on acorn paddock lake, only 11 fishing so we had plenty of room, drew peg 3, nice draw in the middle of the island, with paul faiers on peg one and darren knight on 5. Set up rigs , one for dobbing against the far side, a margin rig for each side empty pallet, and a rig for maggot at topset and three off to the left. Started on the bread across for three small carp, then no bites, not even liners, i persevered with it, ut nothing happened, darren was getting a few on pellet across, and paul was getting silvers as thats what he enjoys most, all of a sudden there was just over 2 hours left and i had nothing in the net, so i got off the box made up a rig for topset and two for maggot in front, and changed.the hook on the dobbing rig for a b960 with a band for hard pellet, also started feeding pellet across with a catty and cupped some maggots on the new short line, these changes certainly seemed to change the peg around, i started to catch carp across, i had a couole couple of good tench short, the peg got better towards the end, i had a couole couple of good carp from the short maggot line aswell and some decent roach and a skimmer, thought i may have nearly 60lb, but paul faiers on peg 1 had probably won the day as he had been catching some nice tench to go with some good roach and skimmers, and he did ,as he had 38lb of silvers and 43lb of carp for the win with 81lb, i managed second with 67lb and john mills on 13 was third with 63lb, pictures of paul , and weigh sheet below.