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Should have been 4 but i found it difficult to find to many positives about Huntstrete on Thursday, so i wont say anything. so sunday and shiplate pairs match for me and Chris fox, breakfast at the fishery greasy spoon, and as always very nice , cooked and prepared by mark and the long suffering Donna, shame no tinned tomatoes though. Into our respective draws, Chris was on the canals and ended up on 15 hawthorns, i was on the main lake and pulled peg 6, both indifferent draws to be honest, although alan q won off 5 on Thursday with nearly 200lb, so hopefully there would be some fish about, most of his fish caught slapping, not my cup of tea, seems more like an endurance test rather than fishing, i dont think I've got the stamina for that for 6 hours 😂😂. For company I had paul faiers on my right on 5 and the bugglegum and crocs sponsored angler luke fothergill on my left on 7, set up my usual things , waggler at depth, pellet for shallow and on the deck at 14 mtrs, and a meat rig down the edge at the bottom of the rocks, on the whistle i started on the shallow rig slapping, gave.that 30minutes for nothing, by theis time paul had three carp and a skimmer in the net, all on the method with with an orange boilie, really paul !!😕😕. Also luke got off quite well with a couple in the first hour again on the method cast to hus island, and sometimes on it, i tgink he only injured one nesting mallard 😂😂. But to be fair his casting was very good and accurate. i didset up a lead but only gave that 20 minutes ,boring boring boring, that is unless the tip goes round quickly, by the time i had my first carp whuch i had on the wag paul was on 6 and luke was on 3, but as always this match was turning into a marathon and not a sprint, i kept rotating round the lines, and ended up with 6 carp and double figures of skimmers, more skimmers than those iether side , but we all had 6 carp, luckily my carpnwere of a slightly better stamp, i ended up with 70lb to lukes 62 and pauls low 50, but still only good enough for secind in section as mark jones on 2 had 72lb, chris came 4th in his section, so we ended up on 6 points for 4th in the pairs first out, venue experts alan quantrill and gary flinders came first so well done, with dan squire and mark wynne second with mark poppleton and ken rayner third.

Momday for landsend brown green and silvers match, 17 fishing and lovely breakfast as always cooked by mrs Anderson, 12 on lake two and a section of 5 around the topendnof lake one, peg 20 for me , not an easy day, most of my fish falling to banded 6mm hard pellet over micros and 4,s, ended up with 15.12 for no good , jeff sparkes on 18 won oir section with 20lb, catching on pinkie, couldnt do that cos i never had any, top on the day was dave ings on 31 with 47lb of skimmers and f1,s, second was the irrepressible nick collins in 33 with 36lb which included 32lb of roach, very nice.

well ive just written a out Thursday's match at shiplate , got to the end , and managed.to delete everything about it, i csnt be arsed to re write it so heres the results, i drew peg 11 on Hawthorn and finished with 162.14, lovely day and it was good to be able to feed with a catty as the carp seemed to want to feed, unbelievably i had the exact same weight as dan pither on my left, well nearly, he did beat me by about 1lb, but due to him going over on one net by that ammount, we had a draw then , still a first for me , i have drawn before but never for first and certainly not at the next peg.