Two silvers matches

Firstly condolences go to the bartlett family.at acorn fishery, adrian, mark and zoe at the sad loss of there wife , mum and gran, lovely lady who will be missed by not just her family but by all the anglers who knew her, RIP Bev. monday and the sedges silvers match, bit of a strange journey down, as regulars will know the usual lane down to the fisjery is shut , there is a short detour in place, which i managed to miss, so instead of getting to the fishery at about 8.20 for a leisurely breakfast , ended up driving round the moors aimlessly, had to put the sat nav on and managed.to get to the lakes at 8.50, for a not quite so leisurely breakfast, still very good though. last in the draw and 24 on tile for me, so happy enough, had jess jordan on my right and steve bracey on my left, set up three rigs, one short in a bout a mtr.of water off to the side, never had a bite there. Two skimmer rigs for 5 and 13 mtrs, a .8 lifter and a .55 slim, both with 18 acolyte silverfish hooks on .10, this latest range of hooks from drennan are excellent, never losing there points, and strong enough to deal with any rogue carp which turn up, it was a steady day catching skimmers on both lines with the shorter line being the most productive, especially towards the end, never hectic , just steady, had to wait for bites and be patient, but worth the wait as most of the fish were quality, single maggot and caster doing it today. ended with 32.01 fir second, behind martin tizard on peg 22 who had 32.10 from peg 22, well done martin, with jess jordan between us coming third with 22lb, so obviously the area to be in.

Thursday and back to todber for another silvers match on wadmill lake, normally a carp runs water, but it had a large head of skimmers and roach aswell, 28 fishing, so popular again. got into the draw early hoping for a draw towards the top end , but couldn't have got further away, peg 30, whuch was the middle peg of three on the near end bank, nearest the carpark, on my right was martin rogers, and on my left i had long time friend nick Collins, after.the last match we expected it to be a roach match for us, ut the last match this area produced plenty of 20lb plus nets , with a couple of thirties aswell, jack stamp had over 30lb of mainly roach from my peg last time, i set up two simple rigs, a skimmer rig for 11 mtrs just in case, and a 4x12 slim with a solid tip for topset and two, where i had just over 1 mtr of water, but i felt the only chance of a pickup for me and nick would be the friendly quid side bet, started by feeding some groundbait on the long line, then began on the short caster line, after ten minutes without a fish me and nick were fearing the worst, also martin was getting no bites, but things did improve but it was obvious early on the 30lb was going to be unattainable, but just kept plugging away, with virtually every bite coming as the bait just reached the bottom, not enough quality, probably used my net about 10 times, with most fish being 1 to 4oz, so busy enough. But not busy enough to be in contention, chris martin was top on the day from peg 19 with 32.10, with some qaulity skimmers/bream, well done, as expected it was the cheeky quid for me and nick, which i managed to win with 19.10, of roach,to. Nicks 13.6. i did have an 8oz perch, and a lone 6oz skimmer from the long line, in nicks defence he had to go to 8mtrs to get any depth, whereas topset and two was where i needed to go, always going to be quicker, the shorter you can fish, but as anyone who knows nick will know its always a pleasant day sitting next to him, always laughing, cant be doing miserable people.