Thursday silver pairs, huntstrete.

Breakfast at home cooked by me, so a straight 5 then 😆😆. 10 minute drive to the fishery, lovely, 2 no shows, one bad back and another with the sickness bug, cant be helped. As normal dave.gillard was in control(just)and got the draw underway on time, i ended up on 46, which is round the far side of withy pool, over the little bridge, two pegs on this island and the other one was occupied by dave wride (45). Always a hard man to beat on a silvers match. Only downside with my peg is that i couldnt see the rest of my section ,but its a good peg so never mind. Decided on 3 lines, topset and 2 slightly to my left in 5 foot of water(caster), 11 mtrs caster and groundbait, and 13mtrs slightly to the right for soft pellet over micros. Fed all lines at the start but began on the short caster line, had a 6oz roach first put in, ut after 20minutes and only one other missed bite there, i decided to go to the 11mtr line, especially as i could hear dave plopping fish into his net, began catching some small skimmers, and occasional roach, so stuck with that while still feeding caster short. As is normal on thus lake, you seem to catch in bursts, having to rotate around all lines, resting, feeding etc, the pellet line was a bit of a waste, only a couple of hand size skimmers and roach on soft pellet, the 13 mtr line was ok for mainly roach, though i did have a 1lb skimmer and some hand size ones again, by far the short caster line was best, lovely roach nearing a.pound , and a few perch to the same.size, i lost 4 good perch aswell, they do have a nasty tendency to drop off, not. A.clue as to what i had, but i new i woukd be well into double figures, it turned out to be close between me and dave on 45, he had 18.12, and i had a smidge over 20lb, a nice day, plenty of fish caught all round, mainly.roach with a few people having odd better skimmers.