Oh dear, never mind, its only a game.

Sunday and rnd 5 of the shiplate 4,s, west pool was my destination for today, oit team needed.a good result today to stand any chance of getting in the team overalls, into the draw and peg 11 for me, not ideal, its been the bad area of late, but you never know. For company today was two fishery regulars each side, on the right was fishery chef mark jones , and on my left was Steve warren. A dobbing rig for across, a maggot on the deck topset and one, and a margin rig, at the start i did give bread a quick go but it was to coloured , so a switch to maggot, and to be fait there were some fish there, started half depth and lost one straight away, then another, so shallowed up a bit, still fouling, kept shallowing till i was only fishing 6 inches deep, and i still foul hooked a couple, end of the first hour and i reckon i had lost 8, all fouled, unusual for me to lose so many, as people who know me i do land more.than my share of wronguns, LOL 😂. From a bad start my.match spiralled into misery, most people began catching a few, apart from me, i ended up with 5 carp, three from across and two on the short maggot line, 31lb for last in the section(lake), to make matters.worse steve.won the section to my left with 74lb, and mark to right was second with 57lb, so do i think i got it wrong, hell yes 😲😲😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Well.done steve.and mark, its taken me nearly a week to write this, the Samaritans talked me round to doing it though. As for the team, i think me , bob and chris all were last in section, only.team hero alan quantrill did the business (again) coming second in the section, but we are out of it now, ah well always hard being in a one man team isnt it alan. Monday and i was intending to go to the sedges for the monday silvers match, but the forecast was horrendous, strong winds and torrential rain, i left home intending to go to bridgwater, but got as far as my local cafe, with the wind and rain doing its best to hamper things, i binned the idea , went and had a breakfast and went home, gave it and hour and dexided to go to huntstrete, as i would be able to get out of the worst of the weather on the far side of bridge pool, and thats what happened, sat under my Brolly as i was protected from the gale, but not the rain, heavy rain most of the day, but i haf a bite a chuck, roach up to 8oz, skimmers and bream up to 3lb and plenty of f1,s up to and over 2lb, excellent sport but i was the only person mad.enough to sit there, 😄. Thursday and back to huntstrete for the coffin dodgers and short walk match, hoped for a drwa on the far side as again there would have been some protection from the gales and rain that were forecast again, but due to a pegging error thise swims didnt even go in the hat, 😯😯😆😆. Peg 8 was my home, wind and rain straight in the face, fed groundbait and caster on two lines, 5 and 11 mtrs.and caster.down the edge to my left, it took about thirty mo to get a bite, ut after that i haf an indication or bite most put ins, mainly.small roach, but indidnhave a few better ones from the left , also i had 6 f1,s, ended up with 10lb of silvers and my.6 f1,s went 12.14 for a 22.14 total which was.good enough for fourth on the day, first went to chris ollis on peg 4 with 30lb of mainly f1,s, well.done matey, second was paul barnfield on peg 19 with 26lb, half. And half f1,s and silvers,and third was dave wride on 34 with 23lb, which was an excellent weight from there with lots of pegs in in that area. most anglers today had plenty if bites which was good to see as the lake has had a difficult couple of months, but there seems to be plenty of fish still in there. I