Sunday monday

Ivy house winter league on sunday and my turn on heron lake section 1, normally guaranteed some bites on this lake as its stuffed with small carp and f1,s(😕😕). As it turned out the best bite of the day was in the wessex flyer in hengrove , the breakfast was spot on and you can eat and drink as much as you like for 9 quid, even took a couple of cakes as an after match treat. Had a terrible day but i wasnt alone, i ended up with 4 small carp for 3.10, on my right stu foale had 3 for 3.06 and jon howell on my left had 4 for 4.01, and with chris fox having 6lb on willow for no good we were soon on our way home. Well thats my league over and done with then, well.done to those who caught a few , considering how many fish are in these lakes it was frighteningly hard, but looking around other matches on other venues, everywhere seems to be having it tough, monday and i ran a silvers match at plantation main lake, 18 fishing which is about right, giving everyone a bit of room or a spare peg on one side, stopped (not stripped)at a laybye just down from the kingshead for a roll, and it was good. Got to the fishery in plenty of time, in fact everyone was there a tad early, so got the draw done , mat tomes drew.mine and i ended up on peg 11, i had it a couple of matches ago, its up in the start of the far end bay, probably not a winning peg but certainly worth a lesser placing. I had shay gilman on my left on 12, which is a bad peg to be fair, and tony ponting on my right on the point peg 8. the peg has a flat bottom from 4 mtrs out as far as you want, so elected.to fish one short line and two ling lines at 13 mtrs on different angles. i began on the short line after potting in two balls of groundbait on each of the longer lines and one small ball short, i had a couple of roach quickly, but after 30 minutes and not really going anywhere, it was out to the longer lines, there were some skimmers about but mostly of a small sample, 4 to 8oz, i could see john fuidge on 24 catchimg well, as was dave willmott on 5, and it looked as though they were having some better size fish, with magic dave seemingly doing the best, he must have been catching the most as the plantation heron kept trying to steal fish off him, he only succeeded once stealing a good skimmer from him, strange thing today was the absence of the roach shoals which inhabit this lake, it was a skimmer day. I kept swithching and feeding the two longer lines, and have had bites all day on and off, so i cant complain, todays spit the dummy went to paul faiers who drew peg 39 again and went to acorn for a "practice" , second prize went to mat tomes who drew peg one and did a brilliant des imitation, 😂. baxk to the match and i was happy.to come 4th with 21lb, dave willmott on 5 won with nice net of mainly skimmers which went 37lb,

john fuidge and 24 had 26lb and john dursley on peg 7 had 25lb. The lake fished as a whole with everyone having some bites, and it had been frozen over a couple of days before, weigh sheet below.