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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,