Two to report

Didnt fish any matches last week as judith and me had a few days awaynin the anchor pub overlooking beer beach in devon, we were hoping to get outon the self drives, but the wind and swell was too much so no chance, we did manage a mini species hunt on weymouth stone pier, we had plenty of fish, but you may well have guessed i lost 5 to 4 on species althiugh i did have the most, i did try and change it to quantity, but jusdith was having none of that, so the walk of shame back to the carpark, dragging my knuckles along the floor😂😂. Sunday and round 2 of the float only.league at Landsend fishery, got to the venue in plenty of time for the fishery breakfast, as always very nice, did the draw for the k/o in the cafe , all done by adrian(the corner) clark, and he paired me up with leon hubbard, coukd be hard.then especially with his drawing ability, got the draw started and someone drew peg 41 for me, first peg on lake 3, ok as long as.leon drew.crap, he ended up on peg 5, so i thought it would a fair one. I nad tony thick, the long suffering dad of tom on my left, and pete(tom cruise) nurst opposite on 70, and ryan shipp on 68. I set up rigs for meat short, pellet on the deck out by the aerator, a couple of margin rigs again for pellet each side, and a mugger. I started.on the shirt meat line, and after.15 minutes I,d had a carp a roach and a skimmer, but that was my.lot.for the short line, out by the aerator gave a one small carp and couple of small tench, and f1,s, ive managed to mug 4 but only landed one, most of my fish have come down along the right hand end bank, ut its always a bit brutal in thus peg as although the fish tend to be small resident fish in the peg but they are buggers to get out, but ive had to go right into the snags to get bites.

ive managed to land 14 small.carp for 52lb, which won the section, so two out of two a good start, no weght, only just over 100lb, with anglers around me having over 200lb, tom mangnal was.top on the day with 142lb from peg 22 on lake 2 well done tom. weigh shhets below, i have had to block out a word on lake two match sheet as someone obviously thinks it funny to use obscene language, i dont like it when its put out there for anyone to read, men, women, kids and my mum, so please no more.

Monday and down to the sedges for the monday over 50,s silvers match, lovely breakfast at the fishery cafe, finished just in time for the draw, early into the bucket and out comes peg 37, just about right, and me old mate steve kedge on 38, so we could keep an eye on the quid. Normal 2 line approach, 6 and 11 mtrs today, two rigs, one for maggot , a ,8 bodied float with an 18 f1 maggot hook, and the other with a 14 acolyte finnese for worm, at the start i cupped in two balls at 6 and 4 balls at 11 mtrs, started well on the lighter rig, catching small to medium size skimmers on maggot, first hiur was good, but it just died after the first hour, the 11 mtr line seemed devoid , and only occasional bites on the short line, as for worm, i never had a bite on it, strange, but then again i wasnt getting bites anywhere, and to make it worse kedgy was now catching, i felt there were fish there , so i got off the box made up a .5g rj slim with a 20 f1 hook, whether it's just coincidence or something else i dont know, but all i now is that i began to catch off both lines, i like to think they just turned up. Anyway i finished with 38lb and a quid off mr kedge, which is more important than the match win, that went to wally over on peg 22 who had 40lb on meat, a very popular win, i ended up 3 rd.so managed to cover the fuel and breakfast costs, so all good.