Huntstrete silver pairs

24 meant to be fishing but one no show, so peg 71 left out again, dave gillard got the draw underway on time, assisted by kev winstone, who was possibly waiting for the night boat to cairo, or hoping to magic up a few more pound coins to hand out.

Ha ha ha just like that ! When jt got to me to draw ,into the hat and out pops disc 60, near end peg on the pathway bank, not been to good recently, in fact i think its been last or nearly last in the two first rounds. But i dont tend to listen to much, preferring to see for myself, and different approaches quite often bring different results, so i went with a positive approach, a .5g bodied float for.11 mtrs, and a .4 slim for topset and 2, At.the start i began feeding caster on the short line, and fed a ball of caster laced groundbait on two 11 and 1 o'clock angles at 11mtrs, started.short and had two bites and 1 small roach in the first 20 minutes, so went on the right hand linger line, again abit slow, but after an hour or so, i was getting regular bites, maggots initially, but i soon swithched to caster on the hook and never changed, the wind and light conditions were horrendous, so i had to have plenty of bristle showing, and had to wait for a positive bite before striking, most of my fish came from the right side, i did manage a proper bonus from the left swim in the shape of a 3 1/2lb bream, dead handy. I did have three more skimmers between 4 and 12 oz, but the rest of my fish were roach between 1 and 10 oz, regular top ups with groundbait, normal mix, sensas lake. Thatchers original and brown crumb, all equal ammounts, use the same mix all year long, occasionally swapping the lale for sensas magic , or sonubaits lake if i cant sensas, the fish dont seem to care to much, but i will say the magic seems to have less binding qualities compared to the others, ive had a nice day, and weighed in 15lb for top weight on the day, paul barnfield on 45 was second with 12lb, and glen bailey 3rd on 42with 11lb, again there were.plenty of bites to be had on most pegs, mostly roach but with a good smattering of skimmers and a few nice perch, weigh sheets below.