Shiplate and acorn

Sunday and it was the last round of ron hardiman,s silvers league, its been a good league run over 6 matches, next year its being run over 8 matches and already there is a waiting list showing how popular silvers matches are now, instead of playing carp lotto, we did have a couple of no shows today but they were covid related, not much we couod do about that as it was the night before. Wessex flyer for chris and me for breakfast, but the food shack is open again at the fishery with mark jones and partner being on the griddle again, and it all looked good so i will have one on Thursday. Ron did the draw and i pulled out peg 8 for myself, on my right was chris and over on 9a was bristols most improved silvers star, Kev winstone, going into this match i was lying 4th and realistically i needed to come top 2 in the section to improve on my position, but i felt it may be a dit to difficult from this peg, but i would attack it the same as always and hope something happened, so i set up rigs to fish three lines with groundbait and caster being the main line of attack, usual groundbait today , equal measures of Thatcher original, sensas lake and brown crumb, so at the start i cupped in two balls at 11 and 13 mtrs, and one ball at 5mtrs, i also set a caster rig for the margin as i have seen some tench and skimmers caught here at this time of year, pre spawning, but not today just a few roach, as the match went on i kept topping up the groundbait lines, but think i may have over cooked it a bit as ive lost a few foulers off each line with the fish seeming to be over the feed , but ive had a few but but not enough, ending up with 29lb for 4th in the section, kev on 9a had over 50 to win on the day withna nice mixture of skimmers and tench, well done, i owe you £2, i wont forget 😆😆.

Gordon canning on 1 had 45lb and shaun townsend on 3 had 31lb, weigh sheet below and a picture of ryan jordan who won the other section with 38lb and also finally got one of his quids back.

Monday and off to acorn for a match , ended up with 23 fishing so not to bad, unfortunately there were a few pleasure anglers at the top end so we were a bit more tightly pegged than i would like, so i ended up on 22 which is a bridge peg, i had john dursley on 21 and steve seager on end peg 23, so a bit hemmed in but hopefully there would be some tench and carp about. But as expected it was difficult, fizzing over the maggot line at 4 mtrs, but hard to get a bite there until the last hour when i had a couple of better carp and some tench, during the match i had two carp and 3 small tench by the bridge, and a few carp across on pellet, but it was clear the carp were in the fairly normal haunts with paul elmes winning easily off peg 1 with 167, and chris davis coming second from peg 2 with over 90lb, niel(drawbag) mercer won the silvers from peg 9! With 48lb and Paul(I've only got 15lb) faiers was second with 32lb, the lake has fished quite well nto be fair, i ended up with 73lb so ive had a days fishing so no complaints.