Xmas new year two

Up the m5 to Tewkesbury and hillview fishery for a teams of three event organised by yearly by niel mercer, sadly his dad passed away earlier in the year and was missed today, 😢. after a fishery breakfast, hmmm, i did our team draw, i ended up on lake 3 peg 73, what a crap.day.that was then, last year there were blanks on this lake, i thought it coukdnt be the same, how wrong could i be, it seemed as the the lake was totally devoud of any life, no liners lost fish or anything, i had 4 bites , 2 f1,s and a small carp down the middle and a small carp right across, my 4 fish went 5lb+ which was third on the lake, martin rayet on my left was second on the lake with a slightly bigger 5lb, and ron hardiman to his left on the end peg won the lake with 12lb, tim ford to my right who is no fool had one fouler, lake three was the place to be again, with joe McMahon winning the day with 80lb, helping his team to victory on the day, well done , again thanks to niel for organising the match, and paying for the lakes. Weigh sheet below, apologies for the crappy writing , for someone who works in the printing industry, niel your writing is worse than mine and thats abysmal, 😕😕

Thursday and back to plantation main lake for a silvers match organised by adam palmer, nice breakfast in the bridge in yatton, 4.65, as.long as you dont have the sausages and have extra bacon instead 😊. 19fishing which generally as mamy as.you want, into the draw and peg 11 for me, just into the bay at the far end, generally speaking a peg where a good day is about as much as you can hope for, especially as peg 12 is in today.occupied by mat tomes.

Simple rigs today, a .3 slim pattern bulked initially, but with the option of speading the shot if necessary, the other rig was a .4 bodied wire stem float, doubled bulked. At the start i fed a small ball of groundbait on the topset and two line, then one ball at 11mtrs and 3 ball's at 13mtrs, all with some caster and a few.dead.pinkies. starting short i had bites and indications, ut not really enough to get into contention, especially as chris fox on 7 was into decent skimmers straight away, and nick collins over on 19 was doing well aswell, apart from that i didnt really have a clue as to what was being caught, joe McMahon on peg 8 was.doing ok but not really well enough, there were three of us in the bay, myself, mat and ricky mills on 16, and there wasnt much between us for most of the match, all of us had to keep switching lines to continue putting a few.fish in the net, by the end it was clear none of us in the bay were going to threaten anyone , myself and ricky had 17lb with mat in the worst peg having 14lb, Top weight today was taken by jack jones on peg 27 with just over 30lb, well done, no picture sorry i never went round as i wasnt doing the scales, after.that there were two 29lb weights with chris fox having a few more ounces then nick collins, pic of chris below.

Again its been a really consistent match with all but two having double figures, again showing what a exceptional silvers lake this is, weigh sheet below, heres wishing you all a good new year, hopefully better socially than last year.