A busy four days

Friday and Saturday was the 2 dayer at shiplate, day one on the canals, day two on the main lake,, after a nice mark breakfast, it was draw time, peg 7 came out for me, witht he levels down the far bank was to shallow, the pegs to my left were the same but to the right everyone had at least 12 inches against the far bank, and my margins werent to good, to deep to the left and snaggy.to the right, well thats my excuses done then, limped home with 60+ pounds fourth in section so two dayer hopes gone then, Saturday.peg 12 on the main lake, not my favourite peg, really shallow for 5 mtrs, 6 to 10 inches before it dropped off, shouod have taken the offer of some wellies, again a no good day, 4 carp and 10lb of skimmers for 50lb, oh well always next year. Well.done john on winning , bob gullick second and paul faiers third, well done.

Sunday and it was baxk to the mayhem that is todber manor, the fishing is crazy, good to do from time to time, but to strenuous for me on a regular basis, as ive said before john and his fishery crew certainly do a good job, from cats and big carp to huge match weights, something for everyone.we had 35 fishing and there was 10,100 of fish caught, 288lb average, mad. Trig was first on the day with 618lb on peg 89, I,ll let the weigh sheets do the talking, i was on 85 and had 439lb, most ive ever caught, and it was a 5 hour match

Monday and sedges silver,s match, lovely fishery breakfast cooked by Denise, csnt beat a nice tinned tomatoe, (mark at Shiplate), 29 fishing today, so tile and one bank of brick, drew peg 32 so happy,

but its been a difficult, nit hard, just difficult, carp were a pain, but some days you just got to wade through them, ive caught at 5 and 11mtrs, all baits worked, worm, magggot and caster on the hook all caught me a few fish, ended hp with 37.12 which was good eniugh for 4th, rob parker did well with 54.14 mainly on bread and corn i think, well done mate, nice net of fish that. Ron stark on my left was second with 48lb, and on 27 was mr consistent martin tizard with 47lb, weigh sheet below.