Landsend Fishery winter league round one.

 Last years winter league was cancelled so it was nice to be back to a series again. 34 fishing this year which is a vast improvement on the last league in 2019. A good first match is always important so I really wanted a good draw where I could compete. Into the draw bag almost last and I pull out 61. Really disappointed as it’s too far up the lake. At least when we got there it’s was fuller than I’ve seen for a long time and had a tinge of colour. To my right on 58 was Nick Duckett. Opposite was Steve Seager and the Bean Machine. And Tony Rixon in the corner on 55. Dale Hobson to my left, and Russ Billy Liar Peck had drawn another silvers flyer in 68. So he was gonna tough to beat. There’s not a lot to say about the match for my end as I struggled all day. I could only catch silvers at 16m against the island, and when they were half an ounce it wasn’t worth pursuing. Dale was catching across doing exactly the same thing and was getting a few quality F1’s. Just goes to show how tight they shoal in winter. I did manage three small carp for my right and left edge and lost another puppy but that was it. Nick struggled all day and only had 1 carp and a few silvers. Tony caught at the end to put him half way up the section ladder. Verbal Seager managed one big lump and a few smaller carp and a pound of bits. Beany struggled with silvers only. Dale, after a good first half struggled later and didn’t manage to find any carp. Winner on the day on our lake and the match was Jason I Ate all The Pies Redford, with 55lb of carp caught mainly on bread and bomb between the island. Top silvers was Billy Liar with 13lb and a big lump for a 24lb total. I struggled all day my ass Billy. The bottom end of the lake was definitely a bit better but a lot struggle for the most part. Match lake was bit of a grueller but specie seamed better. That’s where I will be next time. Hopefully that’s my dropper out the way. Full results below.

Pleasure fishing at Mathern mill

 I had a day off today as im working this weekend so bit the bullet and got my gear out and went to Mathern Mill hoping to find the skimmers. At plonked my gear down at peg 10 as this can hold a few skimmers. It was flat calm when I got there and the water was pretty clear and very cold. I got my whips out of retirement which is something I haven`t done since I lived in australia. I set up to fish short on the whip for bits while the skimmer lines at 11m settled. I started at about 5m feeding maggot. just passed the shelf but didnt get a bite. So shallowed up and went close to the weed on my left and it was pretty hectic for a while untill they vanished. I went out to 11m on double maggot but I had a terible problem as all the leaves that started on the other side of the lake had drifted over and it was a nightmare trying to get a rig in. The photo does do the problem justice as to how bad it was at times

And it stayed like that for the rest of the session. It washard work as the skimmer had shut up shop and all I got was perch all day. Everywhere I could get a rig through I got perch. They were inssecent.

I ended up with about 12lb of mainly perch with a few rudd and micro carp that were caught next to the weedbed. A pretty dissapointing day in the end, but a bad day fishing is still better than a good day in work.

Mathern Mill Silvers Open

 After a couple of days off work with a really sore back I wasn’t sure if going fishing as a good idea. I did it somehow packing up the caravan on Tuesday to come home after a weekend break. Moral of the story, don’t pack up to come home. Stay on holiday. No spasms since yesterday so off I went. All 23 pegs in today and a good draw was suppose to be on the bottom bank. Into the bag and I draw peg 11, right in the middle of the bottom bank. Trouble with that peg it’s on a point and it’s a carp haven. Started the match on the short line, top two used as a whip, and was getting regular perch on maggot and the odd Rudd. It kept going quiet so I think the odd carp was moving through, and I did hook one. After an hour I went to the two plus three line where I’d been feeding micros and maggot. Again the odd perch but nothing else. So it was out to 13m where I didn’t really want to be as I didn’t know if my back would last long but it was ok. Had bites on maggot over micros straight away but it was perch. But I stuck it out and after 10 minutes I had my first skimmer. I had a good half hour and put 7 skimmers in the net to about 3 pound. Then unfortunately the carp moved in and it was a struggle to get a bite from anything but big wobbly lumps. The second half of the match I hooked 14 of them and never saw one break the surface. They just tore off and either straightened my hook or snapped my hook length. The last hours I managed 4 more skimmers including a 3 1/2 pounder last drop in. I caught nothing all day on the shorter line and the perch disappeared completely after the first hours. Come the end I was guessing I had 25lb. Mark Hale was winning up to me with 31lb of skimmers and a few bits from peg 1. Rob Skellet on peg 8 had 27-3 again skimmers and mainly perch. I managed 25-3 and a section win. But winner on the day was Marc Savigar from peg 16 I think with a nice bag of skimmers going 42-1. He caught from the off  steadily all day. A pretty good match all round with plenty of skimmers showing. The bonus was my back held up, but getting pretty stiff now. A good curry might sort that out lol . Full results below. 

Landsend Saturday Open 28/8/21

 Realy late with this one, Nearly forgot what I did on the day. Pegged over Match and lake three and I had peg 5 drawn out for me. Quite happy as there always lots of carp around and it a nice narrow peg. Had rigs set up for the far side up and down the shelf on pellet, one for down the track for meat, and one for between the lilly bed`s in my left margin. Long story short I spent most of the day across to the island which was solid with fish. Far too many as it turned out as foul hookers was a nightmare. Carp were just swimming through my line constantly and spooking when they touched the rig that was only a foot deep. Must have lost 150lb of fish. Landing around one in four hooked. I spent ages in the realy shallow stuff as they were lined up there, but did have a bit more success a meter farther out which was 6 inches deeper, but still a mass of foul hooked and lost fish. Even down the left edge I only managed to land one and loose everything else. Torrettes was in full flight and I even discovered words I didnt know before. Nothing came from the meat line, though I didnt realy give it a proper go. But I did enough to get the win on Match lake with a poultry 61lb. Pete Nurse over on 19 was second only 5lb behind. Silver went to The Bean Machine Dave westcott with 21-00. Lake three was won by Steve leaf |Blower Seager with 131-6. And silvers was won by Alvin Jones with a heafty 40-11. We did have bit of a scare on match lake when something came crashing through the undergrowth on the end bank. We thought a gorilla troup had come down for a drink but it was just the The Fluffy badger  Rod Silver Back Wootton recovering his rig that got caught in the bushes. Did make us chuckle cos I recon he was close to going for a swim. I wouldnt have laughed, well not for too long. Yes I would, I would have died laughing. Full results below.

Landsend saturday open 14/8/21

 Down to my favourite water hole today for the usual saturday bash. 22 fishing so 11 on each lake and fished as two matches. 62 pops out the bag for me on John Walter lake, the same as I had last time out where I got a win. To my right I had Russ Compo Peck on 62, and a quid bet was laid. Opposit I had Rod Fluffy Silver Back 5 Nets Wootton. Bloody hell its geting harder to fit all his name on one line. So the three biggest piss takers all together. Banter was gonna be special today. Bait try was simple today, 6 and 8mm pellets. And that was it. Started across after feeding all lines. Had a run of small f1`s in the first half hour before hooking my first carp. Didnt land it. Nor the next three. Infact after about an hour I`d hooked seven and landed one. Not a great start. Russ was getting decent f1`s and the very odd carp. Rod was sat wishing he had stayed home. I eventually got a few carp but the f1`s disapeared. It slowed up so it was a day of switching lines. Had a few at 2+2 and a few down to my left margin, and three slapping. but I managed to pick out the smallest carp in the lake doing that. After three hours I had a good 70lb but thing went tits up after that. The fish were very active but I couldnt catch anything anywhere. had a 40 minute spell with nothing. Russ carried on catching all this time taking plenty of small acrp and f1`s. Rod was still thinking he should have stayed home. He was realy struggling. loads of fish showing but none feeding. The last 30 minutes I got three more but I was never gonna challenge Compo. At the end I was banking on 90lb. And thats exactly what I had to the ounce. That got me second on the lake. Russ easily won the lake with 120lb and Rod fluffy Silverback blah blah blah had 31lb. Nigel Bartlett had a magnificent 45-2 of f1`s to win the silvers. Top weight on match lake was Leon hubbard with 116lb. Dave Ings was second with 67lb including 33-15 of silvers. So default silvers went to Ray White with 31-4. No fishing for me next week as we are off few a few days in Cornwall in the caravan. Cant wait to get away for a few days. Full results below.

Sedges Wednesday open 4/8/21

 Off down to the Sedges today for the midweek open. Drew peg 14, a good draw. Decided to go for carp as a main attack and silvers if the carp didnt wanna play. Well it turns out the carp didnt wanna play. The guy to my right was catching them shallow, long lining, slapping, mugging, feeding, not feeding. Didnt seam to matter how he fished it he was hooking carp. I tried several different ways for a good three hours and didnt get a touch. They just cruised through without stopping. Only carp I had was one on the bomb after 30 minutes first chuck. Never had anothet touch on that. And one on the deck at 16m. The skimmer line was hopless with very few and they were small. 2 or 3 ounces when I got one. Was never gonna bother the scales much, so packed up with half hour to go. Got no idea what won it as I was gone before the scale went round. Very dissapointing and frustrating day. 

Landsend saturday open 24/7/21

 First time out  for three weeks due to shifts and a holiday so was looking forward to it. After the scortching weather for the last two weeks it was forcast for much lower temperatures and a possibility of some rain. Perfect. The draw was done and Adrian pulled out minature snookerball 62 on the top lake for me. The usual quid bet was placed with Compo Peck and off for a long walk. Got to the peg and was surprised with what I saw. A boat tied up in the peg and a tree that was so overgrown that it was close to covering half the peg.

 A bit of gerdening was required and I dragged the boat out and put it up on the pathway. Its a very shallow area and I had just about the same depth all over. 18 inches was all that was needed to be on the bottom. Rigs were a slapper as there were plenty cruising. A rig for tight across on pellet. An edge rig for 8mm pellet, A rig for meat at 8m. A rig for silvers at 6m but was not used. For company I had dave Ings without an E to my left on 66, Smokin Joe Massey opposit on 51 and Dave Hodgeson on 58. I could only see joe but I could hear the others lol. I started across against the island but it was very slow. Only a couple of crusians. Came into the right edge as I did see a swirl, but again crusians. Tried the meat line but no bites. Not looking good so I just kept swapping lines. 90 minutes in and I had managed one carp across and a few more silvers. Then I got the slapper out and persivered for a bit, then they switched on and I got half a dozen chasing fish and slpping a 6mm pellet on their noses. They soon moved off so it was back to the left edge and it was hectic after that. Plenty of small carp to about 4lb. Not huge but the clicker was going up quickly. I went back to the island to give the edge a rest and managed to hook ten in as many drop ins landing 9. But I got snagged up a couple of times after and trashed rigs. The middle three hours were realy strong and I put about 125lb in the net switching lines. The last 90 minutes slowed right up and I only managed another 3. Around the middle of the match I managed to dislodge one of my nets and it fell in. And Im sure I lost a few as my other two nets were clicked spot on but that net was about 16lb under. At the end I was admiting to 150 to 160lb. |I did the weigh in with Dave and the best weight on the far side was Pete Nurse with 78-15. I put my silvers back as I only had about 2lb max and wanted to dry the net, but my carp went 145-3. That got me top weight on the day and a nice shinny gold coin from Compo. A nice days fishing and my best weight for a while. Match lake wasnt up to its usual standard and top weight was The Silverback Rod Wootton with 76lb. Top silvers today over the two lakes was Nigel Bartlet again with 23-7, so they didnt feed as well as they have lately. full results below.

 

Landsend saturday open 4/7/21

 Down to Landsend today for the usual saturday comp. 22 fishing today which is the best I`ve seen I think. So it was an even spread on match and lake three. Mike Did the draw and he pulls out 19 for me. I had it last week but didnt finish the match as I was feeling ill and if I didnt go home when I did I might have been sleeping in the car park. To be fair I fished a bad match. Couldnt make up my mind on what to do, either carp or silver. Last week I did catch across at the weed bed and I spent too much time today trying to get carp, but they were not having it today over there. All I was getting was little tench and F1`s. Even on 8mm pellet. though I should have gone for them as I did end up with a decent weight of them even though I wasnt targeting them. The dedicated silvers line short did t get going. So it was swapping around. got my first carp after 3 1/2 hours down the self to my right. I stuck it out there for most of the remaining time and got around 10 carp and the odd silver. all on 8mm pellet. I ended up with 18lb of silvers and 48lb of carp for a total of 67-6. The peg was worth more thsan that today and I should have stuck it out for the silvers as they were paying two of carp and silvers on both lakes. Hind sight is a wonderfull thing. So the quid bet went to Russ peck today as he beet my by 2lb from peg 13. Vic Bush won our lake today with a total of 94-4 frm peg 17. Top silvers was Nigel bartlet with 35lb. The weigh sheet for our lake is below. Didnt get lake threes sheet as it was taking forever to get back and I wanted to get home for the football. And as you will see the sheet is a bit soggy after the downpour we suffered.   

Landsend Saturday open 19/6/21

 First time out for three weeks for various reason, including a fab weekend down at Torquay in the caravan, so was looking forward to wetting a line. 20 booked in today so we were having two ten peggers across lakes two and three. Into the draw bucket and peg 8 sticks to my fingers. Didn’t mind that. Always done ok from there. For company I had Steve Leaf Blower Seager to my right on 11, and Rich Stanislav Major on 5. And And Russ Compo Peck on 3, so a quid bet was agreed, fishing his first match since his sponsorship by some dodgy float company called BJ Floaters or something. Banter levels were further increased with Rod Silverback Wootton and Dave without an E Ings opposite. And to be honest I would have paid the peg fee today just to listen to the wise cracking that was going on. We was laughing all day thanks to Richard who was doing his best impression of Frank Spencer. If it could go wrong for him it did much to our amusement. Back to the fishing. Started of well tight across on pellet catching silvers on my supposed carp line, but it was fish in the net as most were struggling a bit. But the carp didn’t play ball. After two hours I had most of my silvers and one carp. Dave was flying on the silvers but they died for him when the carp turned up and he spent the rest of the day hooking and releasing carp. Tourette’s levels were high. Gary flinders was caching regularly and was looking like the one to beat. My silvers line at 8m didn’t produce much. Nor did my meat line. Last two hours picked up and I picked off the odd carp across, but I lost a few in the reed bed. Rod started to catch well as did Compo, though he was saying all his fish were small. Rich did his best to drag the island in, hooking it every other drop in. We didn’t laught to much. I lost an elastic, rich was chewing up rigs and Russ snapped his pole. It was carnage our side. But we were all laughing about it. At the end, Gary won the lake as we thought with 94-11, but it was very close with Russ weighing 94-3. Small fish my arse. Rod had 80-2 for third and I managed 59-3 including 15- 10 of silvers. Steve Lane who I couldn’t see on peg 13 won the silvers with 32-00. Lake three was won by Compos butler Adrian Clark on peg 70 with 81-14, and Dave Beany Westcott won the silver with a nice net of 28-14 from 41.

Landsend saturday open 29/5/21

 The usual drive down to Somerset today to fish the saturday knock up. I think it was 11 fishing today and we were on lake three. Peg 46 come out for me. OK for a bit of everything. For company I had Russ "Compo" Peck to my right, so the regulation quid side bet was on, And Dave Ings in the corner on 41. Banter was on the cards. Rigs today were a meat rig for 2+1, silvers rig for down the track. A pellet rig for against the island. A slapper and an edge rig for both sides. Started over to the island were in the first 20 minutes I had two F1`s, a skimmer and a crucian. That went quiet so I came in on the silvers line and started to get regular crucians and the odd skimmer on soft pellet, but they were small. that lasted about an hours before it went quiet. So it was a case of swapping around all day. The slapping rig was a waste of time as it wasnt food they were cruising for today. The meat rig produced just the one carp. The best line for carp was the right margin were I fished it down the slope and took 8 decent carp on 8mm pellet and managed to release quite a few. The left margin had a nice flat spot but didnt realy do anything. Russ had a late run fishing pellet after he got his head in gear, so it was close for the quid. Dave had a decent day on the silvers but was well behind the Bean Machine opposite who was looking like breaking the lakes silvers record. Steve Seager was quiet all day so we knew he was catching. Russ weighed more than I thought and put a total of 59-04 on the scales, but I thought I had that beat. And I did with 59-12. Close but no cigar russ lol. Cheers for the quid mate lol.

 That got me second on the day again. Doing that a lot lately. Steve seagar had 63-01 to take the win. Dave "Beany" Westcott took the silvers with 32-04, just ounces short of the record. No cigar again. Rod Wootton was there today but didnt speak to anybody all day except to moan about the fluff hahahaha. Misserable bugger. full Weights below

Landsend Fishery Saturday Open

 Down to Landsend today for the ususal Saturday knock up. Only 10 brave souls today decided to battle the winds. I helped with the draw today and pulled out peg 22 for myself. Not a bad area, even though Russ Peck says there are no fish that end of the lake when he draws it. He said the same today when he drew the other end lol. A quid bet was agreed with Russ but I didnt think I had a chance as he drew peg 15. But saying that I think he stuffed up that peg last week  hahaha.  For company I had Dave Ings without an "E" on 24 and Alan Oram opposite on peg 1. I decided on a meat line at 2+2, Both margins and tight to the island for the carp lines. And a 9m line for the silvers. I started on the silvers line, on hard 4`s over micros, but had nothing on that for 15 minutes so went across to the island as Id seen a few move early on the pellets. But the wind was very gusty and presentation was difficult. So I came in on the meat line. Again nothing resulted. Back to the silvers and started to get small crusians to about 6 ounces. But that dried up. Dave and Alan were doing pretty good catching regular silvers. So I went back across. But by now the wind had picked up a lot. I pushed my luck for about 15 minutes but after the fourth rip round of the pole I wasnt prepared to risk smashing a section again in the wind and ditched that line for the day. And it was a good choice as the wind just kept getting worse. It got to a point where it was realy difficult to hold a top four without dragging the float around. The silvers line was also ditched as that was too hard. So I ended up swapping the meat line for pellets and just sat it out in hope that the carp would eventually feed. After 3 hours I got three carp in a short burst. One down the right margin and two on the 2+2 pellet line. Dave and Alan were tearing into the silvers. Alan catching more but Dave had some quality skimmers so it was close. Gary Flinder to my left on 19 was getting a few carp and was running away with it. The last two hours bites were a bit scarce but I did start to catch the odd carp and a couple of silvers on 6mm pellet. Hooked a few down the edges too but managed to release most of them. A burst in the last 15 minutes saw my carp count go to 11 before the all out. I was guesing on the high 40`s for a total weight. Alan put an impresive 26-15 of silvers on the scales and totaled 31-1. Gary Flinders won easily as expected with 93-6. My silver went 4-15 and the carp took the total to 54-2 which got me second on the day. Dave did an even 18lb  -  18lb split for 36-5. Russ got third with 42-8 so the quid was greatfully received. Cheers Russ, that`s the first Ive had from you for way too long.  It will be nice to have a day out without getting the flesh ripped from my face as the wind is being an absolute pain lately. Just never seams to stop. Ya never know, summer might actually start soon. Full results below.

Sedges over 50`s Monday silvers Open

 Off to The Sedges today for aa silvers match. Felt like Billy no mates today as I didnt know anybody there. Peg 11 ping pong ball come out the bucket for me, and I know its a decent area so I was happy with that.

Three rigs today. two to fish at 9m and 13m , one to fish on the drop and one for straight down. And another for top kit plus one on a flat spot down the shelf to my right. Also set up a small feeder as it was pretty windy. I started of feeding all my pole lines with groundbait laced with caster, dead reds and micros. Same on all lines. if they didnt like it tuff, thats all they were getting.Went out on the feeder to strt with and had a skimmer about a pound first chuck. then minutes later got smashed up by a carp. Not what I wanted. The trouble I had was the fluffy crap blowing off the trees. It was like it was snowing all day and I spent ages cleaning my rod eyes and pole lines. It was even sticking to my eyeballs where there was so much, and with slimmy wet hands I couldnt do much about it. I ended up with sore eyes with the fluff and the constant wind in my face. That skimmer  was the only fish I had on the feeder. I tried the pole line out long but it wasnt great presentation and only had a few small skimmers and a few carp out there. Most of the day was spent on the 2+1 line where I started to get a few small skimmers in the first half of the match. Second half of the match things slowed up and bites were a premium. I had to wait quite a while for a bite but they were bigger fish. Bream to 3lb and a couple of bonus tench over 3lb. The carp were a constant problem and  think thats why my fish were few and far between. I must have hooked 15 of the lumpy buggers. At the end I thought I had around 25lb and was very close as my ney went 25-10, and that got me second place today. So not too bad as its only the second time Ive fished this lake. Happy to take a bit of coin home. 

Tony Rixons Acorn Open

 Acorn was the venue of choice for today, and when I got there, there was a strong wind blowing straight down the lake. The end bank was gonna be uncomfortable for whoever drew it. And yep, it was me. Right opposite the middle canal on peg 9. A nice peg in decent weather. I thought the wind at Landsend was bad on saturday but this was a different league. It blew a holligan all day and never let up for a second. Started the day on 2+2 with maggot over micros. has a few tiny tench, roach, perch and a decent F1 around 1lb. but it was gonna be hard work with the size of most fish. So I tried across to the island. There were plenty showing but presenting a bait was almost impossible. I gave it a good go but when I hooked anythhing they shot to the right into open water and the pole was ripped to the left with the wind ripping the hook out. So after a few times that the pole was sent flying I wasnt prepared to smash it in the wind and binned tha line for the rest of the day. It was a pity as good carp were rolling there all day. And on the wind, I managed to smash the number 4 section in the wind fishing 2+2 it was that bad. I changed to feedeing 4s and fishing 6s half way through and got some good f1s and big tench going, but with no carp the f1s are a waste of time as in Tony`s matches F1s count as carp and theres no way you can get enough to keep up with people catching lumps. So I just chucked them in with my silvers as I wasnt catching enough of them to compete either. I did manage a few carp short late on but it was all too little too late for me. I had nothing down the edges as it was hammering through tight in with the wind causing a heavy tow from the middle canal.  I was glad when the all out was called as I felt like id been in a fight with Mike Tyson after that battering by the wind. I weighed in for the fun of it even though I knew I had no chance of a result. My F1s and silver were a 50/50 split for 29lb, and the carp took it to 45-3. No coin for me today. Dave Inges was top weight from peg 2 with 109lb. Hes on a roll at the mo. Tony was second with 81-01 from mill pond peg 38. Top silvers was ray Cooper from peg 36 with 30-14. Full results below.

Landsend Saturday open 8/5/2021

 The forecast today was for loads of rain so wasnt sure if i was looking forward to a day on the bank, but its better than staring at a tv. Mike did the draw and I was first in line. out comes 16, lovely jubbly.

I had Dave "Mary Berry" Ings to my left so I was pretty sure he would go for the silvers as it had a good weight there last week. 4 rigs today. A silvers rig for 2+2, Carp rig for the same line and just about anywhere in the peg. Same depth all over. An edge rig for the right margin. and a shallow rig for across in 2 foot of water. Started on the silvers rig with pellet to see if they would play but it wasnt prolific. Had a few small tench and a couple of roach, plus a bonus 2lb F1. Then a decent carp and on 4-6 elastic it was a struggle. Went across after 45 minutes and that is where I stayed for a lot of the day after that. Even though it was a gail force wind it was straight off my back so it didnt touch the pole. It did however make pinging pellets across a bit tricky. lets just say the rats are gonna have a mighty feed tonight. One pouch full in the water and three on the island if I was lucky. It did keep Dave amused with my tourettes. First half of the match I had the silver and 9 carp. Then it slowed right up and it was a struggle to get a bite for the secong half. I did pick up another five carp, but the bites would come in quick spurts then nothing for ages. At the end id clicked 70lb plus the silvers. The scales came around and Joe Massey was winning with 52lb. dave put 20-01 of silvers plus one carp on the scale for a total of 25-14. A nice day with loads of bites, even though the little tench keep coming off causing more tourettes. My silvers went 6-05 and the carp 65-10 for a total of 71-15 which was enough for the match win. Long time since Ive had one of those. Should of had a quid with Compo Peck. Simon Hawkins was second from peg 21 with 58-12. Beany called the all out 30 minutes early confusing everybody. Plonker. Gonna buy him a watch with big numbers on it as he obviously cant see the one hes got lol. full weigh shett below. 

Landsend Saturday Open 24/4/21

 Finally got back to landsend for the first time since the satrt of December. Ive been struggling in the couple of matches Ive fished for lack of practice, so I was glad to be back here as its the venue I know best and a boost in confidence was needed. we were gonna be on lake three but a good turn out had a few on Speci lake along the car park bank. Mr Duckett did the draw and handed me peg 58. Happy with that as there are a few options. Started off at 16m down to the end bank weed bed trying to mug a few but only had one in the first half hour, there were loads cruising but they had other things on thier minds, chasing each other around, other than feeding. It was like the closing sketch from the Benny Hill show. it was fishing hard. after about three hours and after two hours I had two good carp and an F1. I got a bit board trying to catch uninterested carp so I got my silvers rig and fished the top kit and was getting up to 4 perch and roach a minute, but they were tiny so after half hour I couldnt see me getting enough to get a silvers weight. So it was back to the carp. I got another mugging at 16m towards the spit that would have gone close to 12lb. The last hour produced a few down the right edge but they were juvinials and 4 of them went about 10lb. 20 minutes to go I went back across to the island and hooked 4 landing two before the wistle. the scale came round and top weigh on the other bank was russ pecks 29lb. I knew i had that well beat and i put 51-15 of carp and 4-13 of silver for a total of 56-12. That ended up as top on the lake to my surprise. Ray White had top silvers on our lake with 23-03. Steve seager won overall for peg 37 on Speci lake with 64-12. Dave Ings had a fab net of silvers, which I think was mainly quality roach, or 31-13. It was nice to be bak there and to pick up a bit of coin was an unexpected bonus. B

ack in two weeks for another go. 

The Sedges Wednesday Open

After 135 days I finally get to fish a match again. A trip down to Bridgewater to fish The Sedges was todays choice. Got there with loads of time to spare and it was nice to bump into Dave Ings. Not seen any of the west country boys in ages. Peg 47 was drawn out for me and I got a little bit of info on it as I have only fished this venue a couple of times. Started across against the weed bed and it was half an hour before the first bite and the one and only carp from across was netted. Never had another fish there all day. It was fishing hard and it was another hour before I got a small skimmer down the track on soft pellet. Keeping it short, I struggled for bites all day. Two more small carp from the right margin where fish had been knocking the weeds all day, three more skimmer down the middle and around 15 small barble and chub from under the tree to my left was all I had. chucked about 11lb back as i couldnt be arsed to wait for the scales. dave did well with around 40lb, but he wasnt sure exactly what he had as they weighed him in while he was taking his kit back to the carpark. We think he got second but im sure he will post it up. The match was won with 57lb in one of the pegs infront of the car park. I didnt get a photo of the weigh sheet. Too long away from matches and ive forgotten the routine. Forgotton how to catch fish too. Must do better next time.