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Sunday and round 5 of the Landsend winter league, my turn on the match lake(no2), but not before a lovely fishery breakfast cooked by Rachael. i cant remember who drew for me but i ended up on peg 15, happy with that as Russ Peck had it last time and had ovwr 150lb on meat mainly short, realistically i didnt think it would be the same, but you never know. Up against pegs 11 and 13 in the section, which are normally the go to pegs, these were occupied by james(spooner) mathews and Dave(beany)Westcott respectively, on my right was nick duckett on 17, who you can never discount as its been his home turf all his life. So rigs today were a short meat rig topset and 2, meat rig for the right hand side to peg 14, a shallow pellet rig for down the right hand side and across to the island, well as i sort of expected, a shrt run down of the action, 3 carp and a small tench on the short line, at varying times of the match, 1 carp and a small tench on meat to the left , most of my fish coming from across and down the right, plenty of small f1,s and odd carp from both areas, ended up with 43lb of carpand 20lb of mainly small f1,s, so 63lb for second in the section behind james on 11 who had 66lb, well done matey, top weight on the day went again to the fishery night watchman Dave Ings on peg n5 with 98lb, whuch included top silvers weight of 30+lb.

Monday and off to the sedges for the monday silvers match, again a lovely breakfast cooked by Denise, into the draw fist and out comes peg 12, would have preferred to be a bit further down the lake, alan mills on my right on 11 and the legend that is walley on 13, fished my normal match of a groundbait attack on a couple of lines, 11 and 14 mtrs, tried a short line to begin with, only a couple of small skimmers, then after about 45 minutes went on to the 11 mtr line and a had a brief run of decent skimmers and apart from a couple from the 14 mtr line that was my match done and dusted, i couldn't get a bite from any line, alan also had about the same as me, but after a slow start he had a better ending, perhaps there weren't to many fish in the area and mine just shifted to the right, who knows, walley on ny right taught me a lesson catching 18lb at 7 mtrs on meat, nice one wal.

Thursday and back to plantation main lake for the last silvers match of this winter, only haf 13 fishing today, some missing due to illness, or work or family commitments, and one has run out of pound coins(KW), well apart from the relentless rain it was a brilliant days fishing, we had a couple pack up before the end, cant blame them the rain was disgusting, i set up two ling lines 13 mtrs, one for groundbait and caster, then a pellet rig to the right just abouve the silt line, and a short caster line, topset and 2, started short for a coupke of roach and small skimmers, very slow to start on that line , i expected bites as the water was a lovely colour. Soout on the groundbait line, i only had 2 skimmers from there, the pellet line was a bit better, i have had several from there, and by way of a change i fished banded hard 6mm on that line, but looking around the pellet anglers were having it a bit hard today, i had paul(bitterwell)Isaacs on my left on point peg 19 and mat tomes.to my right at the other end of the bay on 11, most of my match has been on the short line, lovely fishing fishing single caster or maggot ofer loose fed caster and an odd ball of groundbait, paul to my right was catching better than me but i felt i was getting some better fish, so it made for a nice peg to peg battle, by the end we both admitting to 40lb, as was dave Wilmot on peg 2 and adam palmer on 26. started weighing on peg 2 where Dave put 54lb of roach, skimmers and perch on the scales, a lovely net of fish.

my net went 47lb and paul had 46lb, so that was close, bit still not enough to beat adam over on 26 who had 53lb, 21lb was last of the 11 who weighed in, brilliant fishing, as all these venues that are just left to get with it without being meddled with bear testament to, nature always sorts itself out.