Shiplate and sedges

Sunday and it was shiplate for the teams of 4,s, chris fox and me stopped at the wessex flyer.for breakfast, all good, mark jones was cooking at the fishery, but i like a bit of warmth when eating, a bit to cold for open air eating, which is a shame as mark does do a really good breakfast. My turn on west pool, so first section to draw, first in the tub hoping for peg 13, nearly got it but peg 11 would have to do, dave romain had the pleasure of 13 , so would be the one to beat, and with the ever consistent mark wynne on 15, third was going to be a realistic result but you never know. I had tom thick to my right on 10, always hard to beat , at.least it wasnt going to be quiet as those who know tom will testify. It was an interesting day, both myself and tom had a couple of early fish from the far side, but that soon stopped and all.we had was occasional small roach bites or liners, dave and mark were catching a few, but our pegs in the middle seemed fishless, but it seemed as thiugh a few carp moved upnas far as me in the last 60minutes, catching on maggot against the far side, ended upnwith 57lb , beaten by dave and mark to my left who had 87lb each with 4 oz seperating them with dave just edging it, john hawkins on 5 had 62lb, luckily for him he had a nonshow on 6 which helped him, the team is still being held up by alan quantrill, well done matey, so we are hanging on to 4th spot,

Monday and down to the sedges for the silvers match, really nice matches with a nice set of regular anglers, nice breakfast aswell, tile lake today, not to fussed as to where i drew, but a bit of shelter.from the wind and rain would be nice, well that didnt happen, peg 32 with the wind and rain blowing in and across from the left, set up to fish three lines, topset and two in front of the bush to my right, straight out at topset and three, and 11mtrs straight out, fed.a.small.ball of groundbait on the two short lines and three balls at 11 mtrs, by now the wind was picking up, i coukdnt have fished further than 11 mtrs if i wanted due to the wind, i caught a few roach and tiny skimmers in front of the bush, but that died quite quickly, topset and three never gave me.a.bite all.day, most of the action came.at 11 mtrs,.i had to wait over two hours for my first skimmer over 1lb, phil dodd on ny left had had a few on the tip, ut i couldnt see much going on, i just kept plugging away on the longer line for occasional fish, while i was struggling to hold the pole roy worth was turning on the style opposite on 29 putting a steady stream of skimmers into his net, fish down towards empty peg 30, and he ran out and easy winner with iver 30lb, well done the bomb. Tom rat was.second with 14lb and steve.jackson third with 13lb, i had 12.10 for a default section win, I'll take that. Weigh sheet below being held up by the winner on the day, showing his best side.