Todber manor silvers match

I think it was guy manton who thought it may be a good idea to run a silvers only match on wadmill lake, but john candy probably had a hand in it somewhere. 28 fishing so it was quite popular,some of the areas qaulity anglers attending, and kev winstone.😂😂😂😂😂😂 i think i fished it about 15 years ago in a trade match. I think i had about 70lb of small carp back then , mainly shallow, bit today skimmers and roach were the target species. Didnt want to hook to many carp as i thunk they go over 30lb, and lots of them. paid the pools which included the the normal donation to CAT(candy,s added tax) which i dont mind as its a well run well stocked fishery. Into the draw , peg11 today, whuch was about 4 pegs from the far end on the right hand bank, one peg short of where i drew the last time on here. Rich butler on my left and tim martin on my right, opposite was des shipp, so at least i could keep an eye on him, generally the man to beat on these matches, but a stiff breeze blowing in at the anglers on that bank, that may make.things a bit more difficult over there, wind off my back for me, lovely.

Three rigs today, a 4x12 topkit to hand for roach, but not to confident on that working as it was less.than 2 foot deep there, a .4 slim with an 18 drennan acolyte silverfish hook on .10, and a .55slim with the same.pattern drennan hook but in a 16, these hooks are brilliant, fine but strong and havnt had a blunt one yet. I fed groundbait on two lines, one ball at 9mtrs, and three balls at 13mtrs, all.with some worm Caster and corn in, some micros at 11 mtrs off.to the left for soft pellet, but that turned into a wasted.line as i couldn't get a bite there. Started.at 9 mtrs but couldnt a soft bait to the bottom, so put corn on, ive had a stedy couple of hours, catching some nice skimmers and bream to 3lb, i aslo had a.few.nice.roach on the short line on caster , but they didnt stay, once gone they never returned, so the last couple of hours was spent swithching between the 2 longer lines, mainly on a big bit of dendra, but it was a long wait between bites, i couod catch small.roach on maggot or caster , but i didnt feel i coukd catch them.quick enough as des was catching roaxh steadily plus he had caught a few skimmers and bream aswell, also mark bowden on 18, had some bream aswell, at the end i had 45lb on my clicker, but i had only counted.the bream and skimmers, i hadnt included the roach and perch, so i happy to weigh 50.10, just ahead of des who jad 45lb, third was jack stamp on peg 30 with 37.10 of roach, then mark bowden with 37.6, lots.of good roach weights ,.mainly in the early pegs, there will be some more silvers matches on here for sure, so keep an eye on the fisheries face book page for the date.