Plantation silvers

Thursday and back to plantation main lake for another silvers match, the weathwr was going to be horrible with 40mph winds with rain and possibly hail early on but clearing later, and to be fair for a change the weather "people" got it nearly right. Picked mat tomes up as his van was needed for work which was good as it saved me paying for my own breakfast in the bridge 😂😂. as usual for a pub chain breakfast it was ok, 4.5. Got to the Carpark and with everone a bit early got thr draw underway, money and names on the list matched , end of the draw and one angler left without a peg hmmm, ah my fault then, forgot to put someones name down, and i hadnt put my own money in, REDRAW. First one of those ive had in a while, sorry all as some on good or sheltered peg,s ended up in the wind or on not quite such good pegs, me , well i ended up on 16 second time round, after having peg 5 first time, second draw much more favourable as i had a bit of shelter from some bankside vegetation. on my left was long time friend(over 40 years) martin cox, good to see him out again, and on my right was steve rolfe, who hopefully would listen to what his dad (chris) would have told him to do, and do the opposite.😁😁😂😂. 3 rigs, a .3g slim for on the drop full depth, .4 slim bulked for in the drop, and .2 slim for up in the water just in case the roach came up, all with a 20 guru f1 maggot hook on.10. As normal for me, most of my lines would revolve around a groundbait attack, normal mix for winter.fishing for me, 1kg sensas lake, 1kg of brown crumb, and 450g of thatchers original, as the water warms up i double the thatchers, and if i dont use it all i take it home and freeze it. At the start i cupped in one ball at 8mtrs, and 2 balls on two lines at 13 mtrs, 11&1 angles , then started.short at 5 mtrs on caster , i a few chunky roach in the first 30 minutes, but felt it wasnt going to happen, so i went onto the 8 mtr line and began catching some skimmers, not big fish but 4/8oz, although i kept feeding the short line i couldn't catch anything there , so i concentrated on the three groundbait lines, putting fish from all lines into the net, regularly enough to keep me in contention, it soon became clear that thus bay at the top end was the place to be as myself, steve on 12, dave willmott on 11 and mark Broomsgrove on 8 seemed to be doing the best, and that was where the top 4 came from, dave willmott came out top with 29lb, i was second with 26lb, mark had 25 and steve on 12 had 23lb, which is a very weight from there, a few struggled today, not really suprising considering the weather though.