Bit of match, bit of pleasure

Thursday and it was the Huntstrete silvers pairs league on withy pool as bridge is still struggling with the brown algae bloom, its a better colour now but i think it will be a few weeks yet before its open again, my normal partner pete turner had called in sick with covid so i had super sub brian derrick filling in for him. I was happy with my draw, 56, 2 before the island on the right hand bank, brian was on 66, a good peg so we should be ok today, for company i had the paul(the quiet man) haines on 55, and chris(70,s throw back) rolfe on 57, dangerman in the section was paul barnfield who was on my favourite peg 54, very narrow to the island and shallow, my go to peg for a pleasure day. Only 2 rigs, a .4g slim rig for 5 mtrs in 5 foot of water, and a .6 bodies float for 13 mtrs on a couple of lines. I started.short(5mtrs) over loosefed caster , and had a few roach and a perch quite quickly, but it went quiet, so out to 13 mtrs switching between the two lines, catchimg small roach consistently, but they were small, i did keep dropping back onto the short line, and i did get some better roach up to 8oz, and for a short while i did catch some shallow and on the drop by adjusting the shotting pattern, i may have done better by having a dedicated rig made up for that. Ive had bites for the whole match but mainly from small.roach, i did get one skimmer of just over a pound and i did lose another which was fouled, i was probably winning the section going into the last hour, then paul on 54 had a flying last hour, catching a good bream and some quality roach. So in the end paul won the section and the match with 19+, his bream was probably 3 1/2lb and we weighed his biggest roach which was 1.14, and pristine, well done matey, i was second in the match and section with 15lb, my reserve partner was. Aslo second in section with 12lb, so still in touch with the leaders, so two matches left and all to play for.

Sunday and the Landsend winter league was cancelled due to the storm, so had a nice day off with judith and eldest grand son brody, made a nice change. momday and i could have gone to the sedges but couldn't run the risk of being sat looking into 60 mph winds, so had a late.start and went down to kingston Seymour, three fisheries to choose from, Acorn, bullocks farm, and plantation lakes, had a quick look at acorn, but the best areas looked a bit exposed, didnt fancy bullocks, so went to plantation, decided to go on horseshoe lake, drove around to the far side as as i would get the wind off my back and there was a good size hedge which was acting as a good windbreak

Very simple today as i find pleasure fishing hard to do, so one rig, .a 4x14 bodied float , three lines , topset and one, and two at 11 mtrs on different angles, i fed one ball of groundbait on the short line and 3 on both of the longer lines, started short and had bites straight away, feeding caster over the top, nice roach from 2 to 6oz, it was a bite every drop. the longer lines were the same with the added bonus of the occasional skimmer and bream, with some of the fish probably going 4lb.

Got to say the sport was very good, and only a handful of people ever seem to go on this lake, the added bonus is that you can park right behind your chosen swim, so only a 5 mtr walk to the swim, james is doing a lot of work on the lake so it will only get better, all three fisheries in Kingston Seymour are good giving excellent sport on all, be it carp or silvers, and luckily not to far from bristol, well worth a visit to any of them, i caught right up till the time i packed up ending up with probably over 35lb, i even had a couple of bream on the short line, surprisingly i never hooked one carp, which suprised me as there are plenty in there, perhaps they haven't woken up yet.