A different three

Sunday and we were off down to plantation lakes for a match on the newly revamped horseshoe lake no known as jubilee lake, james has done a lot of work , flattening all the sunken islands and sorting out the swims, i expected a difficult day as we were going to have one of the hottest days of the year, and it was an unknown quantity, here is undoubtedly a good head of fish in there ,but with it not having any match pressure the fish may back off, had 18 fishing which to be fair maybe about three to many. Got the draw underway, and i did fancy peg 7(my numbers) mainly as it would be in the shade all day, luckily, james(the drawbag) travis was on hand to draw mine and he did me well , yep peg 7. The pegs i expected.to do well were 8and 9, mainly as they were the only swims which could reach the island, rod Wooten on 8 and steve.seager on 9,

The match went as expected to be fair, rod was first with over 60lb, Steve was.second with over 50lb, both catching all there fish to the island, apart from rod who had one margin fish, joe macmahon around the corner from steve had 49lb for third, sorry I've lost the weigh sheet, silvers went to martin McMahon 5 with 18lb, and i was second with 16lb, i also had four carp for 19lb which was fourth overall, idont thunk for one minute we saw the true potential of the lake, mainly due to the weather. James.is still.striving to improve the lakes, and all support from club bookings aswell as.pleasure anglers can only help him to achieve his goals, so well done mate . Monday and me.and judith were heading down to watchet for a days boat fishing aboard the lorna doone skippered by tommo from heritage charters. we were joined by dan shipp and his brother jamie, shaun tanner and dan (pesky) fowler.as normal the bristol channel rarely dissapoints, with plenty of fish, with boats going out from minehad as well as watchet, its normally possible to get out , especially if weekdays are possible, most boats do 4 and 8 hiur trips, with individuals also catered for, back to today, and to be fair judith managed more species than the otheres with baby tope,hounds, dogs, conger, huss and a nice bass, i had the same apart from no huss for me, but i did get three bass up to 7.5, so no complaints from me,

I was off tuesday thus week so i booked into the bitterwell silvers match, now i got to admit i haven't been here for at least 25years, latest and best fishery boss the lake has ever had is paul Isaacs, and he had really turned the lake around, working tirelessly to improve all aspects of the fishery, and it seems to be paying off, brilliant matey. Drew peg 19, which even i now as a flyer, Had matt challenger on my left and mark cook on my right, i had been told it as either meat or corn to do well, so i had two tins of 6mm meat and a tin of corn, i did feed a short groundbait line just in case, but few small perch was all i had there, i fed two lines at 11 mtrs with meat And kept dripping a bit of meat on both lines to keep the skimmers coming, it went strangely quiet when the aerator went off , but i did have a few more towards the end, carp were a pain for most, with some good fish caught, mark on my right had some proper lumps.i ended up with 45.14 to win but it was close with ali gibbs coming second with 41.2. Plenty of quality skimmers caught today, with all but two having double figures, not to sure when i will be back as i usually work Tuesday's but had to change this week to help out.