Ivy sunday, sedges monday

Sunday and it was up the m4 to ivy house for the last round of the winter league, both chris and me have had a torrid time of it, with niether of us picking up a penny so far, hopefully that would change today, the draw got underway and we both drew well to be fair, chris on peg 8 on the old match lake, and me on peg 11 heron, a nice peg with a nice island chuck and a long corner margin to my left.

Well i dont think i did the peg justice to be fair, made the mistake of trying to catch on maggot on the pole when i think pellet may have been the answer, had a few fish on the pole at 11 to 14 mtrs, only really when i switched to pellet, three small carp down the edge, most action came from fishing the wag towards the island, but unless i got a bite quickly the wind pulled the float away to quickly, another mistake was not chucking the lead out, so consequently i only ended up with 21lb for no good, but to be fair i think the fish were a couple of pegs to the right where jamie dixey on 9 and chris(shipp) davis on 8 were moaning about liners all the time.on the pole, chris faired much better winning his lake with over 40lb, well done to steve walters for winning the league with a perfect 5 point score, well done to the lloyds for a well run league, always.difficult. A quick product thing now, if you are looking for a quality line for making rigs this Berkeley line available at premier angling is well worth a try, only 6.99 for 300mtrs and ive been using it since last summer with no issues at. all.

Monday and back down the a38to the sedges for the silvers match, on brick lake today, i like to draw in the middle.of these lakes for silvers, and i wasnt disappointed when i pulled out peg 5, especially with an empty peg to my left, two rigs a .5g slim and a .75 open water.wire, ive had a nice days fishing today, catching skimmers over.groundbait off three lines, 4/11&13 mtrs, mainly.on maggot, with both rigs working well, the short line was probably the best, except for and hour between 1 & 2 oclock when the wind had a change of direction and my bites completely stopped but a few came.back for the last hour, i ended up with 36lb for the win, jon andres was second off peg 2 with 19lb, it. Was nice to be sat there in some nice spring sunshine with very little wind for a change.