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It was Huntstrete on Thursday for the over 55,s and walking wounded, back on bridge pool again, and with 19 fishing we may get a better idea as to how its going. As always organised by dave gillard, when it was my turn to draw i pulled out 28, lovely peg, end of an jsland even if it is 16/17 mtrs.to reach it, had hughie(eggo)evans on my right and haydn withers on my left, one rig for 11 mtrs on the deck, another for 16mtrs towards the island, and a shallow rig in case the f1,s came shallow, only bait on the side tray was 4mm hard pellet for feeding, all via a catty, and some hard 6,s for hook bait. Started at 11mtrs on the deck, had a couple of f1,s, but it wasnt busy, tried shallow over the line and had 2 f1,s quickly but i never had another one, so back on the deck for 2 decent skimmers, but bites were hard to come by on that line, so the remainder of the match was spent towards the island, catching on the deck in about 3 foot of water, f1,s were quite obliging, i did manage.to mug a 10lb fish on the shallow rig, also i had 2 proper carp on the deck towarss the island, ended up with 3 carp for 23lb and the rest was f1,s plus the 2 skimmers for a 66lb total for top on the day, 2nd was mike nicholls on 21 with 49lb, top silver weight went to shay gilman on peg one with 37lb, a nice net of skimmers mainly, as a whole the lake fished ok, the road bank was the hardest , but its been like for a while for some reason,

Sunday found me and chris going to viaðuct, but not until we had visited the Wessex flyer for breakfast, very nice to. 17booked in, so down a couple, i fancied a days silvers fishing as the skimmer sport had been exceptional, 115lb won on saturday, thats a lovely days skimmer fishing, into the tin of doom and peg 126 was mine for the day, plenty of skimmer form , and a decent carp peg. For company on my right was dave white, and on my left was long time friend mark cook, the skimmers wer were on the pegs opposite yesterday, so most expected scott russel on peg 116 to be the man to beat, I set up three rigs, a pellet rig for the margins, a.3 slim and a .2 in case the fish prefered a lighter approach, i fed three lines to begin with, topset and one, topset and 2 and 9mtrs, the 9mtr line was a waste of time, never had a fish from it, the teo shorter lines were the best, i fed some worm and caster in groundbait, and the skimmers seemed to be enjoying it, judging by the bubbles coming up, i did get a coupke of early skimmers on worm, but triple dead reds seemed to be the preferred hookbait, ive had a lovely day catching skimmers, and towards the end they came really short , topkit only, groundbait seemed to be the key today, i stopped putting worm in and it never made any difference i new i had over 80lb, but was happy when steve arrived with the scales and my nets went 94lb, but still only just won the silvers as scotty opposite was one fish behind me with 92lb, top on the day was phil hardwick on Thursday129 with just over 250lb, well done matey, fish of the day was caught by bave white , who had had an eel of 5.15, a monster,

A few to catch up on

Been a bit lax lately, sorry. So here.we.go with 4 outings. last Thursday and shiplate main lake for the costcutter, nice brekkie cooked by mark, obviously donna has trained him . Well into the draw bag and out pops disc 9, not a bad peg as generally you have plenty of room as i did today, its like yoir own little lake to be fair, with an island to chuck at, a long left hand margin which is usually a banker for a few, got to the oeg and there were a few, not lots,cruisers, ut hard to spot as the light wasnt quite right, so a few rigs put up, a mugger, a depth pellet rig for 14 mtrs, a short meat rig and a rig for.the left hand margin again to fish meat, so ive had 5 muggers, all nice fish.

I left it a bit late to go down the edge, went in with meat, had 2 skimmers then a small carp, then the small roaxh found it, torrid. So a switch to pellet was better and i had 2 more carp, then the wind changed direction a bit and all that crappy willow fluff covered where i was fishing, i did manage one more down the edge but only 4 mtrs, perhaps i should have fed it earlier, ended with 100lb, 9 carp for 92lb and 8lb of silvers, gary flinders won off peg 12 with 160lb, of course no one metioned he had fished the peg the evening before 😂😂😂😂.

Sunday rnd 2 of the float only league, Landsend fishery for this one, again a lovely fishery breakfast cooked by Rachel, paul elmes drew peg 17, happy, that was until tom mangnal rolled on 13, deffo the man to beat, had a bit of a struggle for the best part, mugged a couple, had 3 short on meat, very little off the island, but some turned up in the right hand margin in the last 90 minutes, so ended with 93lb for second in the section behind tom on 13 who had 108lb, top on the day was rj floats ceo ryan jordan on 34 with 135lb, the lales fished well to be fair with an average weight of over 70lb , very good, as usual Ryan has given me some floats to hand out as i please, so i have decided to give them to the lowest weight on the day, thanks matey.

Bit of a change on monday and boat fishing off beer on the self drives, out with dan shipp from the shop, we had mackerel, doggies , bream ,conger Pollack, and wrasse, oh yes and a huss with a very bad attitude.

Sunday back to Landsend for the silvers league, founf myself on peg,21, i dint mind where i draw on these matches as all pegs seem to be full of small tench and crucians, with the chance of an odd decent skimmer anywhere, the better f1,s seem a bit localized, but as long as you are getting bites you will.always.do well, and thats what happened , i have had most of my fish on caster fishing just my tokit to hand, iether in front or off to the side of the pallet, nice fishing, ended with 39lb whuch gave me the required section win, top on the day was the ever consistent silvers angler stu white on peg 5 who weighed 52lb, all on maggot over maggot and micro, all over his peg, again its fished really well as the sheet shows.

Also a pic of steve seager who dropped a couple of no8 stotz on the floor, i think he found them but it took a while

Lastly sedges monday silvers on tile with an overflow onto brick, drew 7 on brick, thought it may be hard as tile had been fishing well, this will be the shortest, took 4 hours to get silver, and that was a 1oz skimmer, every bite was a carp, whatever i fed i had carp swirling in the feed, it was that bad i set up a shallow pellet rig just to do something, and caught several carp, but not what i really wanted , just needed something to do, i did manage a few.more small.skimmers and limped home with a very impressive 1lb 2oz, that was very bad then, rob birch to my right had 28lb aswell, , but all the main weights come from tile as expected, roy worth has been saying for weeks , this silvers fishing is easy, and nust to prove it he won on the day with over 50lb from peg 29, mainly on meat, well done roy. these reprts my not be in order, but im sure you will get the gist of it LOL 😂

Just for you jason 😂😂😂😂

Last Thursday week and i went to acorn fishery for the first of the evenung matches, good attendance, 23 ,zoe got the draw underway , into the bag and out comes. 38, not my first choice of pegs, or 2nd 3rd 4th and on, company was jason (the grinning assassin) on 40 and kev perry on 37, decided on my normal pellet attack, short and the margins, big mustake there, it turned out to be a paste affair(had none with me)limped home with less than 30lb, kev had 112lb and jason about 70,so chip shop sausaged all round, i think paul faiers may have won from peg9,again on paste as all the framers used as far as im aware. but not sure as i cant find the reult anywhere, and no pics the reason for thus will become apparent last monday and out boat fishing from watchet in the bristol channel on the lorna doone, skippered by tom, fishing was a bit testing with the bristol channel doggies making life a bit hard, with them taking all baits , well nearly all, dropping hard backs down accounted for some hounds with dean malin and judith both having double figure fish, i did manage a dlond of about 12lb thay was my best fish, now the reason for no pics, i took a picture of a nice thorny judith had, went to put my phone back in the pocket of my bib and brace, missed it, slid down hit my foot and shot out of the scupper, oh well s#%@ happens, we had a bit of excitement whule at anchor off minehead, mike on teddy boy charters anchored up a couple of hundred mtrs away, and told tom over the radio he may have to call the lifeboat out as he had a customer on board who was sea sick and in a very bad way, anyone whi has been seasick properly will know how miserable it is, and in the channel there is no chance of getting back in early as the harbours dry out, so the lifedoat was launched off minehad gasworks beach and they came out and took him off mike boat, thung is with seasickness is that as soon as he was back on terra firma he was probabaly off to the chip shop , when i first started boat fishing i was sick, so even now i still take a pill, and have never had a problem since.💅😹😴 Managed.to get some pics from tom the skipper.