A late 4

Oh well better late than never 😕😕😆😆 Shiplate teams of four on sunday, hawthirn lake for me in thus first round, i like thus lake, its a bit like landsend with some sneaky fish in it, did my draw and ended up on 11, nice peg to be honest, a good margin, mud opposite, and a reed bed just off to the left, well its been a tough day, nothung in the margins, two on the short maggot line, three from the mud opposite, and 11 from the reed bed, ended up with 74lb for fourth in section, peg was worth more, i shoukd have gone round and cleared some of the dead reeds out as i was having trouble getting the bait to sit on some clean bottom, also i would have liked to have got in tighter as the match went on, ive had to stay about a mtr off, when i new fairwell i would have done better late on the tighter i got, russ peck won the section from peg5 with just iver 90lb and tom thick on unfancied(his words) peg 15 with a level 90lb, and Mark wynne on 7 with 84lb, the match was won by in form luke fothergill who made.no mistake on peg one main lake with 225lb, well done, as for the team we managed.to end up second in the team stakes.one point behind first, so no disaster, helped by alan quantrill coming second with 160lb.👍👍.

Monday and sedges silver,s peg 2 on brick, not ideal, with peg 1 not in it may be a carp fest, and it was , probably hooked 20 carp, whjch was annoying as there were some skimmers to be had for sure, but ended with 28lb which was good enough for third, Bob pascoe on 39 won with over 40lb, and that man martin tizard on 32 had 35lb, well done all, especially bob as he was the oldest there and had to contend with a howling gale blowing in at him,

Tuesday bitterwell silvers, peg 13 was home for the day, a hard day for all bites were definitely at a premium, finished with just short of 10lb for 4th, paul barnfield was top with just shy of 16lb, and ryan jordan next to me on 12 had 15lb for 2nd, and mat challenger had 13lb, good to see the tv cameras there to do a bit for the evening news on the triumph in the national junior champs which they won against some really good opposition, well done boys and paul for managing them along the way.

Thursday and back to shiplate for the nearly costcutter, drew 14, nice, started on corn at 14mtrs hoping to catch skimmers and carp, had a few skims, lost a few fouled carp, out on the wag a depth on pellet and haf a couple of carp, but that wasnt happening, converted the long corn line to pellets and had a couple of carp and a few skimmers, then in the last hour i had some more skimmers and three big carp on the short meat line, ended np with 87lb for 2nd , beaten by lee(bad back)hilton on 15 with 92.14, merv clark on peg one coming 3rd with 82lb, silvers went to pete zimniak on peg 10 21.8. So there you have it, 4 matches in brief.