The new year

First match of 23 and it was off down to acorn for a match run by chris fox, 23 fishing and the talk was to try and avoid the swims closest to where its been shuttered off with all the silt which was removed from the lake recently, and left to harden when it can be removed and the top end of the lake reopened, so where do and i go and draw for myself, yep 22, the wrong side of the bridge and closest to the shuttering, was never going to win from there was the general opinion, and they weren't wrong, i did have two good carp in the first 20 minutes against the tins, but that was it till another one late in the match, i really shoukd have fished for silvers as only 8lb picked up the silvers money, and i had nearly 6 1/2lb in between trying to catch carp, mark poppleton on 38 won with 90+ and john mills on 36 was second from 36, me.well i didnt do to well ut was happy.with 27lb considering the current form of the peg, i nearly won the section, ut dan squire on 15 had that with 38lb, with me being second, must say.the lale.looks good after all the work the family.have.done on it. Today and it was the first.of dave.gillards.silver,s series at huntstrete on withy pool. 24 fishing, a nice.turn out, also its a pairs thing run over the 6 matches, pairs are drawn and i ended up with the affable andy gard. Into the draw and disc 51 comes.out, more.than happy, its down at the far end behind the island, plenty of room and out if the wind, had dave.gillard.to my.right and jeff grant on my left,

I think the club were concerned kev winstone may.draw.thus peg as they have put some fresh stone down just in case. Kev is serious about thus weight loss, he has joined a gym and is hoping to lose 20 pounds a month, i would have thought gym fees were more Than that😏😏. Only two rigs, a .4g slim for topset and two, and a .5 for 9 and 11 mtrs , both floats having fibre bristles, so really sensitive,opened up.with one ball of groundbait with casters on the short line, and 2 balls on the two longer lines, starting short i had a small roach first put in, then not another touch, and i on!y had one more plippy roach from there towards the end. Most of the match was spent at 9mtrs, and ti be honest it was a bite every put in from roach of all sizes from halfway an ounce to 8 oz, i did have one skimmer of about 1 1/2lb and a couple of small skimmers,finished with over 17lb of which probably 15lb was roach, so a nice. Busy day, cliff smith was second from 44 with 11lb, everyone seems to have had plenty of bites with the section weights being very close, sheets below.