Late again

Its getting hard to report on matches now as it all seems a bit samey if you know what i mean.but here goes, Thursday and Shiplate for the what is now back to a costcutter, £15, the £5 OPTIONAL extra pool was dropped as a few didnt agree wth it, but the clue is in the name, the days of winning good money in opens has long gone, especially mid week affairs, i cant remember the last time I won any money here anyway 😂😂. As always a good breakfast cooked by mark, drew peg 7 a bit of shelter from the cold wind, and sat in the sun, lovely, not to much to report to be fair, haf a few skimmers at the start on pellet short, one skimmer on the wag,and a few more long on pellet, one carp on the long pellet line, and three more on meat short towards the end, 17lb of skimmers and 4 carp for 35lb, 52lb total and no goof again, roll on some warm weather, top on the day was titch williams on peg 11 with 82lb, mainly on the tip, tony c was second to my right with 79lb, he had a few fish in the second half slapping a pellet around. Silvers went to dave wride on peg 12 with 32lb, well done all.

No fishing sunday, 40th wedding anniversary, so spent the day with judith, she needs a medal. Monday and boat fishing out of minehead on teddy boy charters with mikey, fishing was ok , we had lots of rays , a few conger and hounds, a whiting and plenty of the prolific dog fish, plenty of bites, nice boat , plenty of room and nice and stable, and i enjoy these trips, its a nice change from match fishing.

My middle child(james)and me with a nice pair of blondes. Thursday and westerliegh lakes behind the wot not , a really nice well looked after small fishery on the outskirts of bristol comprising of two small lakes with about a dozen pegs on each, stopped at cheeks kerbside diner at emersons green, breakfast roll and very nice. only 16 fishing today so mike put 8 on each canal, into the draw and i pull out peg 11 for myself, second peg down on the left hand side of the canal lake, nice peg with two islands to go at, peg 12 not in so plenty of room in the right hand margin, it was a simple.days fishing, started short on meat and had a steady coupke of hours on topset and two, it did slow a Bit, so kept going to the islands for more fish,banded 6mm over lossefed 4,s. i could then come back to the short and nick a couple more, towards the end some better fish turned up in the margin, i borrowed a net off paul clayton to my left, and put 39lb in that in the last 30minutes, at the end i admitted to 160 or perhaps a bit more, and i wasnt to far out as i had 173, it was one of thise days when nothing went wrong, i think i only lost 3 fish and they we in all probability fouled. I must say the fish in both lakes are in really good nick and fight hard, a good testament to all the hard work mark puts into the venue, well done.