A quick couple

Thursday and Shiplate it was then for the optional costcutter, mark cooked a nice breakfast today, 4.7. Into the draw and peg 9 ball stuck to my hand, it was a hard as i expected, the fish seem to want to be at the other end of the lake, i managed to mug three reluctant carp, one on the wag to the left towards the trees along the bank towards 9a, one hybrid shallow on pellet , a decent skimmer and a tench, that was my lot, 46lb and a wheel spin out of the carpark, even gary flinders who wins more than his fair share here actually blanked on peg 8, top on the day was john wolfsencroft on peg 15 with 92lb beating colin on peg 1 by 2oz. Top silvers went to john andres on peg 5 with 34lb, well done all.

Sunday i was going back to viaduct for the open on cambell, i still feel its a shame there are no bigger matches or leagues on this venue, but i also understand the reasons. anyway peg 119 for me, up in the corner, its been an ok peg recently so i wasnt moaning. I had glen radford on my left on 118 and mat parsons over on 121 , nice peg mine with lots of open water in front and a tree to my right which holds fish but its normally a bit torrid.

I set up a meat rig for topset and two, a pellet rig for 11mtrs, a mugger rig but i couldnt see any fish and i never for the duration of the match, and a tree rig. Again for pellet, the match started slowly for me , glen to my left caught better thasn me at the start, also mat seemed to be doing ok, catching plenty of skimmers on his short line, along with odd carp, mat had a bit of a bad day as his silvers net fell off his bar after a couple of hours and he never noticed, oh dear never mind, he had about 20lb escape. Ive had odd fish off all lines , bit my peg definitely got stronger towards the end on the short meat line, so by the end i thought i had over 140lb, steve.started.the weigh in on peg 110 and when the scales.got to glen 146lb was winning off peg 116, then glen put 152.8 on the board. I was next and came close with 151.8, henry smith was third off 131 with 147lb , mat( i thought you more skimmers.than that) parsons had 144lb and bela bakos on 130 was 6th with 143lb, so ony one fish seperating the top 6. A good tight match. Silver,s top weight went to nigel easton on peg 126 with 52lb of skimmers, with the effervescent clint wojtlya having 47lb on peg 111, a pic of nigel and the weigh sheet below,