A brief three roundup

Starting with Thursday, and the first round of the huntstrete silvers matches on bridge pool run by dave gillard, the weather didnt disappoint, it was forecast to be wet and windy all day, and it was, hence no pics, not even the weigh sheets as it was nearly impossible to read. Peg today was 15, end of an island if required at 16 mtrs, ut with the wind forecast i decided i woukd only go to 14 mtrs , which was about 2 foot up the island shelf, so a rig for caster there, another rig, for caster or maggot over groundbait at 611&13 mtrs, had an interesting day, the two longer groundbait lines seemed to be barren, i could catch roach from the short line, then later on the 14 mtr line towards the island, again on caster, i also haf a 1lb perch from that line, ending up with 12lb of silvers which was enough for first on the day, makes up for being soaked right through, including all my kit, charming. sunday and first roumd of the ivy house winter league, travelled up with chis fox, the rotation put chris on heron where he drew peg 7 and i was on willow, peg 28 for me today, bela bakos had a couple of carp from it last week in corn by the aerator along with some silvers, so a rig for that, i also set up a lead rod to the island, and a waggler as the wind was half sensible, well its been a match of two halves, fished the lead for an hour with varios baits for one liner, then the wag for thjrty mins and no bites on that either, onto the pole by the aerator, a couple of quick roach on corn then no more bites, so 2 1/2 hours gone and only two roach in the net, before the start chris telling was advising me that the roach could be more than a viable target as there were some nice one,s to be had. I shoukd have listened, so back to the van to get some caster,s, back in the peg make a rig and start fishing at 6 mtrs, it tok about ten minutes to get a bite, then i had a really enjoyable 2 hours catching some nice roach, ended up with 10.11 , not sure where that was in the section, and the fishery hasnt posted the weigh sheets, but no money and with chris only having 4lb there was no reason to stay, so back home in time for a nice roast tea, i do know john howell won my lake with over 90lb from fabled peg 23, well done . Monday and baxk down to the sedges for there weekly silvers match, brick lake today, but i dont Mind which lale its on to be fair, had a really nice fishery breakfast, (4.75), the covid safe draw got underway, and with all the others chatting in the Carpark i was first to have my peg drawn, out comes peg 2, been good recently for silvers so no complaints from me. Had steve jackson to my left, so the normal banter ensued. Last time here i made a mistake by not fishing a feeder at the start, so that was assembled with a small groundbait feeder on it and a 20 hook, only one pole rig a .8g bodied with a fibre tip, nice and sensitive with 20 f1 maggot hook on.10, to start i fed three lines with a ball of groundbait on each, one at 11mtrs and two at 14 mtrs at 11 and 1o'clock angles, i had a really slow start, well actually it was a non event start, it took 70minutes for my first bite, at 11 mtrs which came for a 1 1/2 skimmer. And after.that by rotating around the lines i had occasional bites from all lines, when i did get a fish it was a sensible skimmer, there didnt appear to be any small fish in the area, at the end i thought i may just have 20lb, i was first to weigh in and my fish went 18.11 which was enough to win, so happy days then, really enjoying the silvers fishing this winter, always a challenge, but always interesting.