Plantation silvers only

16 booked in for this one , missing a couple of the regulars, for various reasons, so easy to peg missing out a couple of the ropey pegs, breakfast in the bridge, very good as long as you dont have the sausages and have extra bacon instead, 4.6. So with everyone ready in the carpark by 9, i got the draw underway, everone was waiting to see if des drew peg 1 again, but luckily dave Wilmot got in before him for that one, des moved along a bit and was on 4, good peg with plenty of room as peg 3 is never in. I ended up on peg 16 at the far end of the lake in the back of the bay, i was happy as its had plenty of skimmers in it recently, although it hasnt framed i was expecting a good day,s fishing, i also had plenty of room as my nearest neighbour,s were kev winstone on peg 11 and paul faiers on peg 19. three rigs today, .3g slim and a .4 same pattern for 5/11&14mtrs. There was a few inches depth difference between the three lines, but a few tippex marks on the pole meant it only took seconds for the adjustments, lastly a shallow rig just in case the roach decided to come up. at the start i decided to go positive with groundbait on the two longer lines, so 2 balls at 11 mtrs.and 5 balls at 14 mtrs. Started at 5mtrs, but it was very slow, only a couple of small roach, so 30mins in and out to 11mtrs, started catching skimmers between 4 and 12 oz, caught for a while but it slowed, so refed and went out to 14 mtrs for a couple of quick skimmers before that stopped, so i didnt refeed that line as i felt there was probably enough there to keep the fish in the area, came back to the short line, again only.for a coupke of roach, so i decided to put a ball of groundbait on that line and left it, just kept feeding some caster over the top. i went back kut to the longer lines swapping between the two lines, catching skimmers up to a pound. Also aboit the halfway match i came back short and had some better fish up to 3lb, i also had a few better roach to 12 oz sha!!ow over the same line. It ended up being a good day,s fishing catching fish on all lines, but i could see des catching well, so new i would be lucky to beat him today, i new i had over 30lb, but i was aware des probably had over 40, and he confirmed that when i walked past to get the scales, also dave on one was admitting to over 30 aswell, no surprise for anyone when des plonked a nice net of fish on thescales which went 47lb, lovely net of fish.

I ended up with 38lb which was a few more pounds than i thought.

Dave willmott on peg one did well to come third with 34lb, and john fuidge on 31 was 4th with 28lb, the lake has hushed well with all anglers returning double figures, weigh sheet below, i still dont think thereis a better silvers lake anywhere in the area.