Thursday shiplate

Back on the main lake today which is nice as you have a good bit of water in front of you to go at, jess had the breakfast roll wagon open and very nice it was , bacon,egg,sausage and hash brown, all very nice , 4.75, good news is that she will be doing full breakfasts from next week. roll devoured just in time for draw time, into the bucket and out comes the only.peg i didnt fancy, peg 9, my.drawing arm seems.to have.deserted me.a.little bit of late. The peg looks good with an island out at about 40mtrs, bit it is very shallow, better suited to lead chucking, but not for me, wag it was then.

Also assembled was.a.pellet rig for 14 mtrs, a silvers rig for 11 mtrs, and lastly a margin rig to fish along the left hand side, normally.you can catch quite short but not today , the only place i could get in tight enough was at 13 mtrs, and only.then if i lent forward , definitely needs a.prune.

On the whistle i put some groundbait at 11 mtrs some pellets at 14 and began firing some 8,s to the island, (occasionally wind allowing), starting on the silvers line i had a 6oz skimmer first drop, then next put in a small eel, not a good sign. I gave it an hour on that for about 3lb, so not good , i went out to the island and had a couple of carp(small) quite quickly, but that was the only two from there, i gave it a really good go but even though there were carp over there i couldnt get a bite on the float, i should have bitten the bullet and thrown the lead out, but i never, probably cost myself (again), next time. As for the pole and pellet line all i had was one skimmer, so that was no good. I tried the groundbait line on and off and had a few.small skimmers, but i was going nowhere fast as far as silvers went , i did manage one carp down the edge and five more on the wag towards the trees to my left, along with a couple of tench and two better skimmers.

Alan quantrill won on the day on peg 1 (again), not saying he draws it very often but its now got AQ1 on the peg number, and there are 20 notches in the fence behind ,probably be 21 next week, well done , and another quid off me, but i call it a hollow victory as you chucked the method LOL 😂😂😂.

Top silvers went to ron stark on 15 with a shade over 30lb, nice one ron, picture

Here,s a few

Not reported anything for a while as both me and judith had the c19, ive recovered well but judith is struggling with her energy levels , but she is getting there, so my first match was last Wednesday at Todber manor for a southwest tackle dealers match , supposidly for people working within the trade, hmmm. Anyway drew 86 on homeground, caught 178lb short for no good, well done lee woodhouse for the win with 380lb on peg 82, maggot shallow doing it still. Next was.the three day mini festival at Landsend fishery, well done to mike for running it, always difficult but he did good, day one peg 8 on lake 2, not a peg of choice, limped home with 59lb nust beating three in the lake section, so festival.over as you cant carry anything less than a top three on any day, realistically top 2 is normally required, rod Wooten on peg 21 won the lake and john Hawkins on 19 was second. Second day and lake.three, peg 46 for me.had a better.day, 107lb for 4th on the lake , John Hawkins on 68 won the lake with rod Wooten second on 62, Day three and speci lake, peg 25 not a good draw, had a laugh with steve seager opposite on 40, quid bet which i beat him by one fish, john hawkins on 31 made.no mistake winning the lake with well over 260lb, which also won him the festival with his travelling partner steve (peanut)howell coming second, so well done to them. Monday and judith and me had a boat trip out of watchet on the lorna doone boat, even that was more difficult than we expected, but we had three different species of rays, small conger, baby tope doggies and bull huss, so really plenty of fish but no real quality, skipper Tommo did his best but today just seemed as though all the better fish shut up shop. bit of a short right up im afraid ,hopefully back to normal this week.