Shiplate costcutter

Thursday and back to shiplate for the costcutter, as normal a good breakfast cooked by mark , all nice and hot with quality ingredients, including the sausages, 😂😂. john got the draw underway on time, andni was fairly.early into the bucket, and was.rewarded with peg 10, one of my favourite pegs on the lake. Its narrow to an island, well its 18mtrs and with the wind today that was going to be a no no,

it can also hold some good skimmers so a bit torn today as to what to do, so i set up a .5g silvers rig, a bit heavier than i would have liked bit the wind was going to be going through with the wind, left to right,2 lines one at 5 and another at 9mtrs for maggot over groundbait, that was after.i had scabbed a handfull of reds off nigel bartlett, ta matey. a pellet rig for 13mtrs, a pellet rig for the bush to my left at 4mtrs, and a meat.rig for the right, i went to 13 mtrs on that edge, mainly as it was three foot there, but much shallower any closer, mark jones did tell me it flattened out the further you went, and it did.

Started off feeding all lines, with the relevant baits, and started on the shorter groundbait line, had a couple of better skimmers, then nothing, so went further out and had a few more, i stuck with the silvers but after.a couple of hours i was really to catch, so i had a look down to the right, and i had 4 quick carp, with a couple of lumps, so that was the end of the silvers for me, so i basically stuck with the right hand side for the reainder of the match, catching odd fish, i did get one from the left hand side, the right hand margin got stringer towards the end, i put a thurd net in with 35 minutes to go and put 50lb in that one, and another carp into net 2, so nearly 60lb in the last 35minutes, i thought i had 160lb but thiught it may be a bit more, in fact i had 178lb for first on the day, nice day, top silvers were taken by nigel bartlett on peg 8 with 45lb, a mixed bag of roach, bybrids, skimmers and even eels, nice to see.