Shiplate thursday costcutter

I had a couple of choices today, stay local and go to huntstrete, but i didnt fancy stopping after three hours for a weigh in, then doing another three hours, so off to shiplate it was then.got there in plenty of time , well, ten minutes to draw time is ok. John got the draw underway and pulled out peg 13 for me, happy enough, always a good silvers area plus a sensible carp peg on its day, but after striking up the quid side bet with alan quantrill, i decided to concentrate on skimmers, i was on 12a last match and had 40lb so i was confident of a few.

so i set up a .6g double bulked rig for 11 mtrs, i was goimg to fish meat short but the shallow water goes out to 7 mtrs on the peg so i binned that, but i set up a margin rig for pellet and a 14 mtr line again for pellet, and a mugging rig just in case as there were a few milling around the top, but they were moving a bit fast for my liking. For company i had apprentice two pots on my left, as hes an apprentice still he is only allowed one pot, on my right was merv clark who would no doubt be fishing for silvers. At the start I cupped in three balls of groundbait at 11 mtrs with some chopped worm and caster in, then cupped some hard 4,s at 14 mtrs, gary had gone back to the van to get some more pellets telling me there was no hurry as he didnt expect to catch till the last two hours, as he got back to bis peg i was landing a ten pound carp from the long pellet line, but that was my only fish from there apart from a late skimmer, the 11 mtr line was om for skimmers for a couple of hours, then the lake as far as i could see switched off With everyone struggling for bites from anything, i did hook a couple on the mugging rig, but both came off, no reason just one of those things, probably litely hooked as they weren't really interested, gary,s predictions came true as with a couple of hours to go he began catching carp and skimmers, losing a few but landing enough to be in a comfortable place by the end, in fact he was an easy winner with over 100lb, beating titch williams on peg 11 by over 30lb.

Top silvers.went to ron stark on peg 15(again lol) with 36lb of small skimmers and a few tench, so well done to both gary and him.

I ended upnwith 23.8 of silvers which was good enough for second in silvers, so money back, weigh sheet below.

And another quid off alan, well nearly, he only had a fiver with no change , i did sugest he give me the said note just to save him handing over anymore coins in the next 4 matches, ge was having none of that hence an older picture (last weeks)) of him handing one over, lol see you Thursday matey, buff em up.😂.