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Sunday and it was the first round of the short pole league, as it was at todber on ash and home ground, it was never going to be anything other than short pole, 2 sections of 6 on each lake, i let aaron britnell draw.for me , and handed me 82, which is on the end bank of homeground, so happy days, we had the honour of des shipp fishing today standing in for his nephew ryan, he had the last peg in the hat as he was otherwise delayed (toilet), wasnt to ammused with 63 on ash, but the moaning was very muted, wherever you draw here ypu will be getting plenty of bites, ive had a simple match to be fair, caught topset and one to begin with, then the last half of the match either margin was good, ended up with 309lb for second in the section, behind martin rayet on his favourite peg, 76 with 320lb, well done, as expected the overall winner on the day was des with a whopping 500lb, from which to be fair is an unfancied peg, well done ryan(des).i dont have copies of the weigh sheets but the overall league positions are below.

Monday and off to landsend for a bank holiday open, 21 fishing so ade.split it over match and speci lake, (1&2), really.good breakfast cooked by Rachael, and assisted by ade. It wasnt my match so drew my iwn peg, and pulled out 19, not been on there for a long time. Cimoany was.mike Jefferies to my right and fishery caretaker dave ings.to my left, four rigs assembled, a short meat rig, a mugger.a few.fish were mooching about, a pellet rig for across, and another for the margins each side, at the start i begsn short and had bites straight away, mainly.small tench a couple of f1,s and one carp, with a bot of sunshine there odd ghostie,s about, these landsend pale.ones are.notoriously hard to tempt, but they nirmally have a.few normal carp for company whuch you cant normally see, but can be more obliging, i gave the mugging a go, but the fish were not having it at all. So baxk on the short rig for a couple more small tench, going nowhere fast.i tried mugging again, and i had one, a nice ghostie, from the fishing showing no interest, i now begsn having an odd fish, all ghostie,s, unusual to be fair, ive had it here before when the fish go from showing no interest to them having a bit of a go, in a 90 minute spell i had several fish all good ones, but as soon as they fed, they stopped again, and i never had another shallow fish for the reainder of the match, and apart from 2 smaller carp and some f1,s across i was now going nowhere, i only had one small carp and some f1,s/from the margins, i needed.to have a good last hoir or so as rob walters on peg 24 had caught odd fish all through fishing mainly shallow out by the bush in front of him, luckily my.shirt !ine started showing signs if life, odd bubbles and small fizzes, and the last gour was good, having several carp from that line, i still didnt think i had done enough to beat rob, i was hoping for 80lb, but was suprised to have 108, i didnt really factor in my.silver weight which was 18lb, i was still convinced rob had more, he ended up with 102lb, i didnt realise that he had lost several, in his own words , probably pulling to hard, i dont pay to rush on a hard day, overall top weight on the day went to rob watts on 32 with 146lb, obviously helped by his new hip, but dont ask him about it unless you have a spare 30 minutes, 😂😂😂😂😂😂 nigel the silver ace bartlett was top silvers with 27 from leg 36, sheets below.