Salt and fresh

Firstly with no match on.sunday that got my interest, the decision was taken to have a days sea fishing with judith, well to be honest more of an evening session as it was an 8pm hight tide at blue anchor, so a leisurely day then off down to the north somerset coast, got there just about right with the water about 30 foot from the sea wall, 5.15, so a good 2 1/2 hours before high tide, easy fishing witht the van parked.twenty foot behind us, it was a lovely evening, a few bites was all we needed to make it more enjoyable. Rods out just the normal waiting game.

I had decided to experiment with circle hooks, but i dont think they were right for these hooks today, we missed a few bites , so a change.to the more traditional aberdeens soon resulted in a doggy for judith.

It went very quiet after.that and i was in danger.of another beating, i had to wait till after the turn of the tide before i got one aswell, what a relief or it would have been a long drive home.

I did get another just before we packed up but judith never let me count it as it dropped off at the base of the wall, even if i did have walk upto the end of the wall and back along the beach to put it back in the sea. next day and i went to the sedges to fish the silvers match on tile lake with an overflow onto brick lake, got there and found 23 fishing which is an excellent turnout, also good to see the cafe /shop is well underway, should be good as anglers fishing other venues in the area will be able to drop in for breakfast, as long as denise knows of numbers expected, jamie and denise got the draw underway, and pulled out 34 for me, happy with that as vic bush had won the silvers match the previous day off peg 35 with 40lb, on his beloved worm. For company i had ade bishop on my right and robert parker on my left, john dursley was behind me on brick peg, and was only moaning a tiny bit.

Vic had caught mainly at 13 mtrs on worm the day before, so inset up a 1grm positive rig with a 16 hook bouble bulked, and a drennan as5 in .8g with an 18 for maggot. At the start i cupped in three balls of groundbait at 13 mtrs with some worm and caster in it, then one ball at 5mtrs with just some soaked micros onboard, starting short on double maggot i had a 1lb skimmer first put in, nice, so i went in with a soft pellet on the hook, another bite but this one was 2lb, and thast was the only bite i had on sort pellet, back on the maggot but nothing else, so out to 13 mtrs on worm, but the float just sat there, jess jordan up on 32 was getting a.few on worm, then ade also began to get odd fish on worm, but i couldnt get a bite on it, and i can honestly say that i never had one bite on it, but by awapping between the long and short line with maggot on the hook i kept adding fish fairly regularly to the net, topping up fairly often with caster and worm in the groundbait on the long line and just micros on the short line, the short line was by far the most productive, i wasnt to sure as to what i had , but ade was confident that i had over 30lb, and he was right as i weighed 35.12,

which was good enough for second, beaten off peg 9 on brick by rob eagle with a level 36lb, rob had all his fish on caster on the waggler, so well done to him, steve kedge was third with 33lb from peg 26 with 33lb, so that was another quid for me, its been a couple of years due to c19 but worth the wait. Weigh sheet below, im running a match at acorn next monday, anyone fancying it get in touch to book in 9am draw and £20.