2 again

Sunday was a trip down to viaduct again for the open on Campbell, not before chris and me stopped at the flyer in whitchurch for breakfast, different crew on today and probably not as good , but still edable, 😂😂. got to the fishery in plenty of time, but after the normal carpark banter it was draw time, into the tin and out comes 118 for me, happy , reasonable peg. Stu white had it the day before and had won the silvers from it, so a shortish meat rig was assembled, 6mtrs. A pellet rig for 13mtrs, and a suicide rig to fish down to another derelict peg in the shape of 117, again loads of snags, but always a fish holding area bit not for the faint hearted, man to beat today was going to be tom thick on form peg 115, and as always never shy about showing his best side 😂😂

He as always was.going to fish maggot short and down his edges, he makes it work thats for sure. Ive had a strange day, i fully expected to catch on the short meat line, but only had a roach and one carp, and no other bites, perhaps i should have fished maggot there, bit as i never had any with me , that wasnt happening. I had a few carp and some skimmers on the 13 mtr pellet line, and several more suicide fishing down by 117, i lost a few aswell, no suprise really, it was a case of hook a fish and pull as hard as you dare to try and get them out, to be fair the old daiwa tournament did me proud, it looked likely to snap on several occasions, but it held up, they may not be to stiffest and lightest pole on the market , but i think daiwa certainly make the strongest, finished with 16lb of skimmers and 120lb of carp, which ended up 4th on the day, and a default sectuon win as the angler who shouod have won had over 70lb in one net so was disqualified, unlucky really as the net that took him over only had 6 fish in it and they went 72lb, proper beasts , so top on the day went to tom on 115 with over 180lb which included 89lb of silvers, now thats a good day, well done tom.

Monday sedges silvers match again on tile with an overflow onto brick if needed, and it was. Lovely breakfast cooked by Denise, spot on, into the draw tin, out comes peg 3 on brick, not where i really fancied, i always like the middle pegs on this lake, but you got to put up with whatever you draw, no point moaning, set up a topset rig for caster short , and one rig for topset and two and 13 mtrs, same depth on both lines so easy peasy. Started with feeding groundbait on the two lines in front with caster in, and began feeding some caster onth topset line, started on the topset and two line, and basically stayed with it most of the match, started well with a good skimmer first drop, first 90 minutes was good, then as expected it slowed, mainly due i think to the ammount of carp in the area, rob parker to my right was getting one ever put in, which was good as he seemed to keeping the bulj of them in front of him, i did get a few from the long line, but it was slower, also i could catch a chunky rouach ever put in on the topkit, but i stuck with the in front short line mostly, catchung in fits and starts, but a nice day, hooked i thunk about 13/14 carp, not as many as rob, 😂😂. Ended up with 50lb, which was a nice days fishing, but not as nice as the winner , mike bendall did really well , having 85lb on the wag and mag from peg 28, nice one mike, the lakes have fished well, over 700lb of silvers caught with an average of over 28lb, and that was with 2 dnw,s, brilliant.