Ok and should have been

Sunday and round two of the Landsend winter league, my turn on the speci lake, need a good draw to keep me in the running, baxk to doing a covid draw with mike in charge of the bucket of doom, ably assisted by ade who was in charge of names, my name got called out about halfway down the list and mike did me proud pulling 31 out for me, end of the island on the far bank , and more importantly the right end of the lake, for company i had long ashton,s finest stalker, steve seager on 32 and ex pat stu Barnett on 30,with the weather being so mild i expected to catch up on the island shelf today which was about 20inches deep, so a bread dobbing rig for over, also a pellet rig for the same if the bread didnt work, which was 16mtrs, and a meat rig for just off to the right in front of the island just down the slope, but that was 17mtrs, so a har day, luckily the wind was slightly from behind, so that would help.

Started on the bread, small.roach, followed by a nice f1, after that i couldnt get a piece of punch into the water without a small roach or Rudd taking it, so that was binned in favour of banded 6mm hard pellet over loose fed 4,s, the next couple of hours were pleasant, catching f1,s and a few carp, bit it didnt last, i did manage a couple of carp off the meat line twords the end, i thought i had 60lb which looked to be enough to win the lake . My 8 carp and f1,s went 62.15, with nick duckett on 35 coming second with 46 and mr.seager third with 43,

the weigh sheets below show how its fishing, and to be fair its on a par with most other fisheries in the area, and better.than some.

Its a bit of a longer walk to lake three, so its nice to see the fishery going out of there way to help get the older anglers there pegs, looked like bodecia and sparticus rocking up in the Carpark, not to sure who was who though.

monday and chris fox and me were off to acorn for a match organised by Laurie lang, 23 fishing, which is an ok number, again a covid draw with chris pulling out the balls and laurie doing the writing , my turn came and chris pulled out peg 21 for me, had lee waller to my left the other side of the bridge on 22, and mark broomsgrove on peg 19 to my right,

Fished it totally wrong today, fully.expected it to fish ok off the back of this recent mild weather, same as yesterday, i pellet was my.main attack, well that was a waste of time, i had one fouler hooked in the tough bit of the wing, so duly landed. The only other fish i had were three tench, 2 small and one about 2 1/2 lb, a skimmer and a roach, i think i blew my peg apart early on by feeding hard pellet, anyone who caught today, caught on maggot in the main, as i did in the middle at about 7mtrs, needless to say i lost nearly all my quid bets today, the only one i won packed up early and left, i wont say his name to save him any embarrassment, (was.that ok Alan quantrill), when the scales.got to me 55lb was winning with brian slipper on peg 6 having that, and with two 8lb,s and a five winning the silvers i put all fish into one weigh, bugger. Hadnt checked the payout properly, all winnings were by default, with section payouts better than the silvers prizes anglers with better silvers.weights were either framing or section winners, so john fry won the silvers with 4.5 , that would have been close, and lee waller came.second with just over a pound, definitely had that, so cost meself £30 minimum, not a life changing ammount, but would have paid for the day, my.own fault for not checking properly.weigh sheet below.