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Last sunday and off to viaduct for the match on Campbell, sold out as only 21 pegs available. Breakfast in the wessex flyer in bristol, which as always very nice. Paid our pools and waited for the draw, plenty of good anglers here today so a nice draw would definitely be needed, got into the queue and pulled out peg 121, so sat on the top bank on my own looking back down the lake , so a bit of a grandstand view so i couod see what everyone was catching, not always a good thing, good company either side in the shape of mr shimano glyn Reynolds on my left and last of the mohicans tom Thick on my right, so plenty of banter, but due to toms verbal diarrhoea it can at times be a bit one sided, but you got to love him 😂😂. dan white was on thus peg the day before and had come 2nd with over 200lb, catching mostly on pellet down to empty peg 122, so a rig for that, nice depth at about 3ft, so a .25 slim for that, a meat rig for topset and 2, and a pellet rig for 13mtrs, in hindsight i should have set up a margin rig aswell, toms intention was to target.the silvers down hus margins caster and maggot, with the occasional carp thrown in as well, glyn was the same.as me., So all out carp, maunly as i didnt intend to go for silvers today, so bought no bait to do it. The match was a bit of a disaster for me, only a couple of carp and a skimmer on the 13 mtr line, again the short meat line didnt happen apart from a few late skimmers and a couple of carp, most of my action came.from the area down by disused 122, i think i lost as many as i landed, round the old legs of the swim, in twigs and any other bit of debris they could find, but it was an entertaining day for Tom, eventually limped home with 144lb, 5th on the day and thanks for donating to the framers.top on the day again was ben hagg on peg 115 with 250lb, man to beat here at the mo, top silvers weight was tom with a more than respectable 79lb, he also had a few carp which boosted him uo to 148lb, so he kindly relieved me of a quid, bugger.cant fault the the quality of the sport on the lake, but still miss the leagues and opens that used to be run here.

Thursday and with bridge pool being shut we needed to find an alternative venue for the coffin dodgers match, mike Nicholls got in touch with mark who controls westerliegh lakes and got us on the two lakes there , well dine mike and thanks mark. 8.30 draw(why) so it was a maccy d,s plastic breakfast on the way, not next time as the is a breakfast van oit at emersons green, thats got to be better. 20 of the old boys attending today, so ten on each lake, so a bit of room generally where it was needed, mike got the draw underway so we all delved into Mike's silk bag for a peg, i ended on peg 4 which i in the middle of the second island right hand bank of the canal lake, i was told it was a bit snaggy across on the island so it would pay to come away from it a bit, company today was dave gillard on three, and hayden withers on 5. Simple today, a meat rig fir 5mtrs, and it eas the same depth on my topkit so i woupd feed there aswell and hopefully get some fish there later in the match, a pellet rig for down the right hand margin, never had a touch there all match, so that was a waste of a few pellets, and a pellet rig for across, they were right about the snags, lots of roots sticking out , it was impossible to find a clear spot tight to the island, so i came off about 2ft i about 3 1/2 foot of water, still found a few obstructions but ni where near as bad as tight in, but it was still impossible to lay a rig in sideways, i had to feed it up the slope till the pellet grounded, started on the 5mtr meat line, took a while to get a fish, which was a small stockie carp, dave on 3 had had a couple on his topkit straight away, so he began singing to himself, but i began getting some bites on the meat with a few more small carp and one about 4lb. But after just over an hour the line died , and it never came back although I kept feeding it , the island was the place to be feeding hard 4,s and fishing a banded 6 and an 18 b960 to .16, been using these hooks for all my hair rigging for longer than i can remember, still haven't found a better hook, only ever opened one up on a fouler, strong as you ever need. Caught on and off , small carp mainly, with an odd better one to 8lb, losing a few.to the underwater snags, i also had 3 late fish on the short meat line, so enjoyable, and the fishery is very nice , mark has worked hard, well done mate. I ended up with 70lb which was top on this lalke and first over all, tony ponting won the other lake with over 40lb, we will be back there again in a coupke of weeks, looking forward to that and its only 20minutes from home.