Plantation silvers on a thursday

Baxk down to kingston Seymour for the fortnightly silvers match on the main lake, good to see james and few helpers sorting out ther banks and swims around the lake, a big job but ive no doubt it will be sorted. the lale still had a lid on it between pegs 8 and 24, so basically the hole top end was covered, i let bob teakle draw for me and opened up the ticket to see 24 on it, so ice breaking again, 4th match on the trot, although i dont mind doing it, its getting a bit tedious now, it wasnt to bad only about 4/5mm thick, i felt for kev winstone on 11 and gary bowden on 16 as theres was nearly an inch thick, i did go and help gary break his, but left kev to his own devices, after all a quids a quid, i broke mine out and managed to push a 15 ft square of ice into jerry salisbury,s and dave willmott,s pegs to my left, well i didnt want it 😂😂. Set up to fish 3 lines, topset and 2( not a bite there) and 11 and 14 mtrs in front. i expected it to be difficult, but had a small roach first drop at 11 mtrs, ive had bites all match on the two longer lines, had to keep swapping between the lines as the fish seemed to back off after a few fish, virtually every fish was a small skimmer, fish between 4 and 6oz, with a couple of 12oz fish thrown in, jihn fuidge over on 19 was doing the best as far as i could tell, catching a vetter stamp of fish on his beloved soft pellet approach, i could hear steve kedge over on 4 was doing well aswell, and niel mercer sat on 32 was doing well after a slow start. And dave.willmott on 27(best peg in the lake) was doing what he does and catching fish of all sizes on lots of lines. By the end i wasnt to sure what i had so i admitted to 10lb but i actually had a few ounces short of 16lb, steve.kedge won with 25lb,

Niel.was second with over 20lb, and john third again with over 20lb, interestingly the top 3 caught a lot if not all on soft pellet, so on there again on sunday so i will be taking some with me, the two pegs with the thickest ice 11 and 16 both never had a bite, so both did the FOE walk of shame,😁😁, but in there defence the water there must have been really cold, and the fish probably moved away to warmer climes.