Silvers, silvers

Sunday and it was the ron hardiman silvers league, today was round three and we were on Campbell lake at viaduct fishery. Travelled with Chris fox again and we stopped at the brewers fayre in street for breakfast, very nice too, 4.7, even had a couple of choc chip muffins for after. Tthe match, all very civilised, ron got the draw underway on time, i wanted to avoid the carp pegs at the near end, but nope out comes 131, ice carp peg, then i drew 114 for ron and 126 for ryan jordan, it coukd have been worse , but luckiky martin rayet had that in the shape of 132, lee waller was on my left on 130, but all eyes wou would be on leon hubbard who was on 112 , and as 113 had won the silvers the day before, and it wasnt in today, we were all going to be fishing for second place. inset up a wag for meat , at 25 mtrs, three pole rigs, two .3g slim patterns one with an 18, the other with a 20, and a .2 slim again with a 20 hook, all guru f1 maggot hook,s on .10.

I fed three lines, one 5 mtrs with caster only, but never had a bite there , so not to be mentioned again, one at 11mtrs and another at 14 mtrs, really slow start, toom and hour to catch a plippy roach, lee to my left caught small roach quite quickly then started to get skimmers, as did mark cook on 129, and leon was catching early on, meat on the wag was a no go, i swit switched to caster on that, had a roach and a small scabby carp which i was sure was a skimmer till i netted it, then i couldn't see the float as the ripppe and reflection was terrible, i did start to catch a few skimmers halfway through, which cheered me up, but i was always behind, leon on 112 caught on and off for the whole match, mark cook caught early then just stopped, and lee next to me had odd skimmers on and off, poor martin on 132 had no chance , he ended up with a few small roach, i reckoned on 15lb but ended up with 16+, lee had 17+ but we were all loads behind leon hubbard who had 39lb, well done matey.

it fished ok really as the weigh sheet below shows, paul elmes was second off 127 with 28lb+.

At least i won my side bets only had two but if it keeps going like this i may have to declare it to hmrc, thanks lads,

Monday and back down to the sedges for the silvers match, really nice breakfast in the fishery cafe. Fancied somewhere about peg 33, so wasnt upset when i had 34 drawn out for me, for company i had somerset angling finest on ny left, sorry my mistake it was steve kedge 😂😂😂😂.on my right was the angler formerly known as chair bob, ow its just plain old bob pascoe, so not to much chance of a quiet day, as long as he dont start singing.

thought it may be hard today, hard frost , bright sunshine and no wind, i only set up one rig, a .8g bodied float witha nice sensitive nylon bristle, and a feeder rod , so at the start i fed three lines with groundbait and caster, one at 11 mtrs and two at 14 mtrs about 6mtrs apart, I gave the feeder 30 minutes, one bite fro a carp of about 7lb, the rest of the matxh was spent swapping between the three lines, and i had an enjoyable day, the weather was glorious, nearly warm. And the float kept going under, not ever put in but enough to keep me keen, i thought i haf 25lb and was only 4oz out, makes a change. Steve jackson on 29 was second with 18lb, , again it hasnt fished to badly considering it was a bit of a sick lake a while ago, well done to jamie for getting it sorted,

Oh yes and thanks mr kedge for the quid, always greatly appreciated off the next peg 😉😉😀😀