Thursday costcutter shiplate farm

A nice turn out today , 20 booked in, not to fussed as to where i drew , so when john pulled out peg two for me , i was happy, it can be a good carp peg as the island is easily reached ,

Main lines of attack today would revolve around pellets, so a couple of rigs to fish to the island , one in 12 inches of water slightly to the left, another in front and axross to the right in nearly two foot of water, one for the right hand margin, and a meat rig for 5 mtrs. i had john page to my left and titch williams on my right at the start i cupped in some pellets on all lines then began on the meat line, 40 minutes in and one skimmer, so across to the island for the carp i hoped would be in attendance, hhhmmmm, wrong, two hour's in and and i had only added a 4oz skimmer to the total, oh well, to alleviate the boredom i got off the box, sorted some groundbait and made.a silvers rig up, only a .3g drennan as5 as it is only 3 foot deep down the middle, so i cupped in a couple of ball's of groundbait with some worm and caster in it, then tried the far side again just incase some carp had rocked up, but nope, not a glimmer.so back to the silvers, and i kicked myself.for the rest of the match as there seemed to be a few skimmers about, ranging fro 4 oz to 2lb, i did catch one carp fishing 16 mtrs to the right , not a big one but at 6.5 lb, it was welcome,and pretty.

and needed, as i will explain shortly, i also had a couple of 2lb skimmer,s down the right hand margin, and a tench from the island. I caught well for i whule but feel i overdid the feeding as bites stopped about 45 minutes from the end, again it was a tough one today, with people struggling a bit, top on the day was gary(ned)flinders on peg 5 with 10 carp for 106lb, some shallow and a few.on the deck.

Silvers went to kev winstone on peg 13a(about time) with over 30 of skimmers and an eel, so well done to those two, 24lb was second the silvers(paul faiers) that was well attainable today, as my.fish went 22lb and i only did it for about 2 1\2 hours, bugger. So all i won today was £2 from Alan quantrill, as he had just short of 25lb and my fish went 28.5 lb, so the shiny carp helped with two nice shiny alan coins, luckily i had change of a weston super mare fiver.

And as is normal the weigh sheet is below.