Roundup

Sunday and it was Rons silvers league match, round 3, plantation main lake, breakfast with chris in the wessex flyer in whitchurch, all very nice aswell, all you can eat and drink for 9.99, cant go wrong. got to the fishery to be met with rain and a strong breeze, lovely, any draw.from 16 round to 39, just so i would have the wind from behind, into the draw and out comes a peg i seem to draw more than any other, 31, can be ok, bit apart from one match win a few weeks ago when john fuidge had over 30lb from it , its done nothing, but you just dont know, had league organiser ron hardiman on my right on 28, and his travelling partner bela bakos on my left on 32, not a lot to report, its been a tough day for all but a very fair match, ryan jordan continued fro where he left off on Thursday with a win again from peg 19, with 14lb, ron had a big 13lb, joe McMahon had a smaller 13lb and i was next with a level 12lb, weigh sheet below.

Monday.and back to the sedges for the silvers match, this time on brick lake, as normal a lovely breakfast in the fishery cafe, well cooked by Denise. hoped for a draw on the causeway bank, mainly as the cold wind would be mainly from behind, but no peg 12 for me, steve(jacko)jackson on 11 and ade bishop on 13, nasty breeze blowing in, so set up the pole to fish 6 and 13 mtrs, shoukd have bought my tip rod, was never in the hunt from the start, steve fished the feeder from the start , took a while to catch but ended up with 5lb+of smallish skimmers, ade started.on the tip and had a couple the big skimmers plus a few top ups for just short of 6lb, me i limped home with 3.12, no good, jim kerr blitzed it from peg 15 with 19lb, catching at 5mtrs on maggot over maggot, feeding about 4 pints, well done, mr sedges himself martin tizard was second with 9lb, he's normally the man to beat. I was that bad i even lost a quid to steve kedge, but he only got one of his back.

finally it was back to huntstrete on withy pool for dave gillards silver,s match, bacon and egg sarnie from my local greasy spoon, got to the lake to find there was a lid on it, i was hoping we had finished with breaking, but no, and it looks as though we will still be doing it on sunday at avalon for another round of rons silver,s league. anyway back to today and i go and draw peg 70, straight in front of the carpark, good pegs for pleasure fishing, but ones to avoid in match situations, its the narrow end of the lake and i think the fish move away on match day, managed.to break a channel to 14mtrs, just the job i thought.

A lazy day, just one rig, its the same.depth from 6 mtrs to 14, another hard day, andto make matters worse the ice kept forming all day, it was freezing over in the channel, after an hour my 14mtr line was now solid, and i had to keep breaking the cat ice with my pole tip to get the rig in the water, started on my 9mtr line but never had a bite there, glen bailey on 38 on the far bank was catching small roach from the start, after 30minutes i went to 13 mtrs and caught plippy roach straight away, i got to be honest i was getting indications very put in, but the roach were mainly half to 1oz, so it was at thus stage a micro roach race with glen, i thing he probably had 15 to 20 micros before i had 1, we were both catching at the same rate , but i had a 6oz perch and a couple of 4oz roach , so by the end myself. And glen tied for the section with 4lb exactly, we just managed.to hold off a late charge by dave poole on 69 who ended with 3.14. The lake fished better in certain areas , andy greenham won off peg 59 with 11.13 of roach, tony ponting on 42 was second with a lesser 11lb, pic below and weigh sheets, everyone caught, so considering hiw cold it was shows this is a good lake, lets hope it stays that way.i had a bottle of water on the bank behind me today and that was frozen by the end.