Getting later

To be honest its really getting difficult to do these blogs , although i still really enjoy my matches, i also enjoy other branches of the sport, match fishing is a bit same old same old now, the open matches are now struggling for numbers, while the club scene is fairly bouyant, also individual leagues are generally well supported, so i may just begin posting in the dreaded face book, even though the place is full of some very strange people. So here's a brief for now. And heres a picture of a white admiral butterfly sat next to me at huntstrete sunbathing, nit rare but not often seen, well at least by me.

last monday week and landsend for a silvers match, well done pauk faiers who made no mistake on peg 13 with 46lb of the usual brown, gold , green and silver mainly on small pieces of paste, 2nd was dave ings on peg 10 with 40lb, me i limped home with 29lb, still a nice days fishing but over cooked the peg with feed and the carp turned up on all lines, running another silvers match here on monday 17th so contact me or the fishery to book in.

Ni match till the following sunday, and back to Landsend for a round of the float only, 30 fishing spread over 2 & a half lakes, aaron britnell drew for me and handed me 22, thsnks mate. Had a nice day after a difficult start, lots of carp on the island but the wind was making it a but hard to get proper presentation in the shallow water, foulers making it hard i did get a few but was not doing well enough, never had a bite on the short meat line, but luckily the margins came to life and finished with 213lb for tip weight in the day but more importantly max section points, just beating craig(trig) edmunds on peg one who had just short of 200lb.

two midweek matches now, Wednesday and myself and chris fox did the 6 hiur round trip to the Glebe fishery near Leicester for the annual maggot drowners match, lovely well kept fishery, shame its not closer, well peg 28 lake one, good draw, told it was a good skimmers peg, but no silvers payout today, so i woukd try and mix it up a bit, agsin a lovely days fishing, 70lb of skimmers short on corn and a few late carp down the edge for 127lb which was top weight at my end if the lake so a section win only, chris won with over 180lb from peg 2 , mainly short on pellet, well done.

Thursday and the coffin dodgers for a silvers match at huntstrete on withy pool, the club didnt want carp kept in nets hence silvers only. Peg 49 for me which at the back of the far island, must say i fancied it,

started short topset and two, caught straightaway, roach and a few skimmers and one 3lb bream, then the micro rudd and roach arrived, came onto my topkit with caster for a few quality roach i tried long on pellet but that was to slow, so i went to the left on the topset 2 distance with banded pellet whuch was ok, as the match went on carp arrived in the peg i landed 8 up to about 14lb, and hooked a few more, finished with 28lb which was good enough to win, so happy days, shay "the tickler"gilman was second with 22lb from peg 63, all but 2 people had double figures With some quality roach caught by everyone, good venue. Forgot to get pics of the weigh sheets, i will try and get them and put them on.