Three again

Thursday and Shiplate for the costcutter, nice breakfast at the fishery, mark is improving ,4.61. Into the draw bag and peg 14 comes out. Happy, but it turned oit to be a hard day, coukd hardly get a bite, ended up with 6 smallish carp and one skimmer for 41lb, 4th so no pickup, the match was won by steve w on peg 12 with 81lb, catching on pellet at 8 mtrs in the last couple of hours, 2nd was titch(xmas) williams on peg one with 79lb, silvers.went to dave.wride , again with 33lb of skimmers from peg 15, and he asli had a couple of carp for good measure,

sunday and rnd two of the short pole match, todber on hillview lake for this one, 27 fishung so only one peg left out, aaron britnell drew for me , peg 41, cheers then., Its been an interesting day, ive had gabe skarba on my right, havnt seen him for a couple of years , so that was good, and russ, (cant lie straight in bed )peck on my left, all in and started in the normal todber way, short in front to begin with, had a few but they seemed to back off, so went out to topset and three, was catching quite well on the deck, but the fish came up a bit so i had a few shallow, but they seemed happier on the deck, i also had a few down the left hand margin, i fed 6,s and fished a banded 8 on all lines, finished with 173lb, whuch was no good on the day and only.third in the section, bob(sleigh) gullick won the section off peg 34 with 207lb, the match was won off tuckers peg(49) with 240lb by martin rayet, well done, biggest fish of the day was taken by birthday boy mike west on 48, who had a common weighing in at over 27lb, a proper brute on the pole, pics of mikes fish, weigh sheets and overall standings below.

Monday morning and i was going down the a38 to bridgwater and the sedges silver,s match, lovely breakfast aswell in the fishery cafe. Drew peg 25 for myself, and had a bit of a redletter day to be fair, fed two lines, 5 and 11 mtrs with some worm and caster , and have had a lovely day Catching quality skimmers on double maggot or half a dendra, ending with 79lb for the win and some.money to buy some fuel to get me back to bristol, these matxhes are popular with 25 fishing today.