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Landsend fishery today(sunday) for the last of the individual winter league matches, tight at the top with several in with a chance of winning or framing overall, realistically i needed a section win to stand any chance of, but that still relied on a couple of the anglers above me dipping out, i was.on lake three today, and the draw was ok for me in the shape of 51, happy enough sectuon wise, its the only peg on thus side with a feature opposite in the shape of a bush, so i set up a rig to fish either side of that, a meat rig for down the edge and 5mtrs in front, i had rod Wooten on my left and beany on the right, well to say its been hard would be an understatement, 2 hours in and all i had to show for my efforts were 4 small f1,s, with rod and beany having even less, dave tagart on 41 was catching lots of silvers, and james Matthews on 42 was doing his best to keep the lake stocked by returning his fish before he could put them in his net, baxk in my swim and things improved slightly and i began getting a few bites across by the bush, small f1,s mainly, i did get 3 smallish carp aswell, i had one bite on the short meat line whuch was a roach, never had a touch down the edges.at the end i was looking at 2nd in section at best, that would be enough to keep me in the overalls, but i ended up with 23lb which was thurd in section behind dave on 41 with 29lb of silvers.

And james.got 2nd with 25lb, i needed one more carp,top.on the day was the irrepressible tom thick on peg 31 standing in for dan pither , he had 120lb so well done to him, as for the league leader from the start russ peck stumbled at the last fence coming last in his section, letting alan oram who was second in his section win the league, well done mate, dan pither ended up second, russ thurd and i snuck in 4th on weight over steve seager, well done to all and thanks for supporting the leafue and fishery, thanks to Rachael anderson for the after match nibbles, always welcome.well.done dave.tagart on winning the league silvers.

Monday and baxk to the excellent sedges fishery for the monday silvers, breakfast at the lakes as.always very nice, into the draw and peg 4 on brick was where my day was going to be spent, mike jones on my right, not the Bristol one, a summer exile from up north,and the legend that is bob pascoe on my left. fed three lines at the start , 5 9 and 13 mtrs, first half of the match was hard, hardly any bites,things improved towards the end with some good skimmers turning up, trouble was to many arrived, i probably overdid the feed, getting liners and fouling fish, Mike had loads of carp trouble but i only hooked three, bob on my left started catching on his topkit, catching good skimmers right to the end, was good to see, 84 years old and still catching, needles.to say he was giving me a bit, but thats part of the reason i like these monday matches, good set of blokes , good banter and never any bad feelings, it is how matches should be, 22 fished today and the numbers will increase as the weather improves, top today was alex kerr on 22 with 47lb all on maggot, mainly on the pole, second was mike bendall on 30 with 43lb, and third was bob pascoe with 38lb, my fish went 27lb for nowhere, the lakes fished well with over 500lb of silvers caught, with an average of over 24lb, brilliant.