Thursday coffin dodgers

Back to bridge pool at huntstrete yesterday, temperature on the van was reading minus 5 near the fishery, i was glad i dragged.the old breaker from the shed , bit as it turned out there was no ice on any of the lake's, happy days, although i do enjoy a bit of ice breaking. 17 fishing so again plenty of room, all reasonable pegs in the hat, and i certainly was to upset to pull out peg 16, even though a few others seemed a bit disappointed, lol. Its a lovely peg , only 13 mtrs tight to the island, but wouldnt be going there as the water was very clear.

I had an old team mate to my right in the shape of shay(of the avon) gilman on 15, and around the corner on 18 was paul (rigsby)clayton. Only two rigs, one for topset and two, the same rig would do for 8mtrs in front at the bottom of the shelf and off to the right at 13 mtrs,all in about 7ft of water, and the other was for 10mtrs up the island shelf in about 4ft of water. Fed all the deeper swims with some groundbait and caster, and cupped some caster on the shallower line, started at 8mtrs, and had a small roach after about 5minutes, then another on straight away, switched to caster on the hook and never changed for the rest of the match, caught roach and a couple of small.skimmers , plus a lone 10oz chub, as well as 7 small f1,s, i had some better roach up to 10oz from the shallower swim, so considering how cold it was ive had a nice day, ended up with nearly 17lb of mainly roach, and the f1,s went 6lb for a total of 23lb, whuch was topweight on the day silvers and overall.