Campbell at viaduct fishery

This was my last match booked at this fishery, it was meant to be a float only league on Campbell and cary, 40 pegs, but the fishery has decided to stop all matches on cary , handing it over to the carp and pleasure anglers, so i was limited to numbers so i made it a short pole match, topset and three, 22 booked in which was as many as i was allowed. Stopped off at the brewers fayre in street for breakfast, very nice but a bit on the cool side, (4.3). everyone was on time so i got the draw underway, i let ollie dark draw for me and ge gave me 118, no complaints from me, although i would be sat in the shade all day, and it was a bit cold, so i had to sit with the windstopper on all day.

For company i had leon(peter pan)hubbard on 117, and tyler(marine boy)alder on 119, the wanted.peg today without a doubt was 135, and as expected niel Mercer was on that, no surprise to anyone to be honest, he is even admitting now that he is a relentless drawer of good pegs. It was a good job trig and beever weren't here today as they may have struggled to share the swim,😂. I kept it simple.today, a rig for hard sixes over fours, anothe for 8,s over 6,s. Both to fish in front, fours with sixes at topset and one, and also on the longer line also straight out, the 8,s and sixes line was off at 10 o'clock angle, and a rig again for pellet down the left back into the bay. I haf a reasonable.start on the short line catching some nice skimmers and occasional carp, but after 90 minutes that line dried up, so out on the 6 over 4.s line for some more skimmers and carp, but the skimmers seemed.to be drifting away, as the numbers.of carp increased. I tried several times down the edge , two bites two good carp ,and that was the end of my margin fishing, most of the remainder of the match was spent on the 8,s over 6,line, catching some nice fish, the fishery now operates a 60lb net limit, so i had to borrow a net off leon towards the end as i was only putting 50lb into a net to stay safe if you go over 70lb you are disqualified, losing all nets. About thirty minutes from the end there was a bit of commotion from tylers peg, his 4 and 5 section slipped in, and trying to stop them.he fell in 😅 but it was all ok as he retrieved his sections and even managed to get his i phone from the lake bed, and it seemed ok as it was still playing the same music before it went in, whether its still going in the morning will have to be confirmed.

As expected niel mercer won from 135 with over 300lb, so well done, and chris fox won the silvers from 126 with 42lb of skimmers,

Landsend fishery tomorrow for the gary wall memorial match, still a few.places.left, so msg me or mike at the fishery, or just be there before 9am ,draw time.