27/07/15 - Rood Ashton

Weight - 100lb 4oz
Catch - 30 Carp, 2 Roach
Weather - Wet and windy, became a little dryer later
Match - Airsprung AC - 1st out of 13

On the drive down I started questioning my sanity. It was raining hard again and the temperature gauge read 12-13c, which  felt more like autumn than summer. On arrival I realised I hadn't brought any 8mm pellet (other than the hookers  I keep in a small container) and left my groundbait bucket at home. So not a great start to the day and was wondering whether it was going to be one of those days. Fortunately Steve Ince came to the rescue with a bucket so at least the groundbait could be mixed and the pre-ordered bacon baguettes arrived which were very welcome.

The most optimistic angler today was Tom Ince, who stood shivering under a golf umbrella, wearing shorts determined not to give in to the rubbish weather!

The good news was I couldn't draw the same peg as last time for the 4th time on the trot, because it wasn't in - yay! I fancied a draw on the far wooded bank and got my wish with p11, however of all the pegs on that side it was the 'bird cage' which is narrow with very little margin, i.e. the one you don't want. Fortunately I could park the car close by, taking what I needed from the carryall and rod holdall, leaving the rest to stay dry.

With the wind blowing into my face I decided to start on the method fishing with groundbait whilst letting the pellet fed 12m line settle. The intention was to fish the feeder for 30mins, but ended up staying on it for 2hrs with either a bright pink or red band 'um pellet being best. I did lose a couple to snags and had one decent fish roll over the hooklength, but 12 fish in the net was a handy start. For what ever reason the method caught fish here tend to be on the small side so I really didn't want to stay on it for too long.

A switch to the 12m line (carrat 0.2g > .16 > 16 B960) fishing 8mm pellet over toss potted 6s produced 3 carp, but it wasn't prolific and just got the feeling the strong wind was affecting presentation too much.

From the start I had fed meat and hemp into the deeper right hand edge and was immediately rewarded with a 4lber on double 8mm meat. The next carp snagged in some submerged branches. After tying a new rig (powertrap 0.2g > .17 . 16 carp feeder) a switch from 14-17 hollow to a heavier 16-20 meant no more carp made it to the snags.

A good 90min spell saw me land 10 carp up to 9lb, before it went quiet, but I was now thinking about framing. I hadn't seen too much being caught from the far side other than Nick Ince (but it transpired he had caught a lot of smaller fish including roach on worm over pellet).

So far the left margin had remained untouched allowing the fish to settle over the groundbait - never had a bite other than from roach. Towards the end of the match loads more groundbait was fed into the margin, to avail. To be honest it wasn't an ideal margin to fish, with sunken roots and overhanging brambles, but even so I was expecting a few fish from it.

The last hour was a case of picking up a few fish on the feeder and then down the right hand edge.

By the all out, I was little dryer than when I started the match. I was pleased with my efforts and was fairly sure I had at least framed. Kev Hanson was admitting to 40 carp, mostly on the method and Hippy had also caught well on paste. Fortunately I had beaten both of them thanks to a few better margin fish and I just beat Ryan on p1 who had a very good last hour.

So a long overdue and much needed win.

1st 100- 4 - Ken Rayner - p11
2nd 99- 6 - Ryan Heard - p1
3rd 83- 0 - Richard Whitmarsh - p13
4th 82- 6 - Kev Hanson - p8
5th 71- 8 - Tom Ince - p7
6th 64- 8 - Steve Ince - p5 

25/07/15 - Lands End - Match

Weight - 35lb (5lb 8oz - silvers)
Catch - 7 Carp, 2 Perch 1 F1, 1 Skimmer
Weather - Sunny, but windy
Match - Open - 11th out of 14 (4th in silvers)

Yesterday's weather was very wet and the lakes received a much needed top up. At least it was dry today.

Peg 3 again for me. Really not the best peg, however it has some recent form, when Ryan Shipp framed last week using chopped worm and caster, which raised my hopes a little, although I couldn't see many fish moving around. The expectation was yesterday's heavy rain would have lowered the water temperature unsettling the fish.

I didn't have time to buy any caster and Mike didn't have any, meant I was going to have to rely on meat, pellet and paste, which should have simplified my match.

Although it was dry today, a strong breeze was blowing straight down the lake, which would make fishing paste to the island a pain, so decided to feed meat and hemp. Whilst that settled I started down my right by the lily's on paste and was soon attached to a carp, which promptly snagged me in the lily's. Unfortunately in my efforts to extract the carp I snapped my no6 section - not a great start to the day.

10mins later I manage a decent carp on paste, but no more followed so switched to the far side hoping to bag up. Well it simple didn't happen. The meat across only produced 2 perch and a F1, I tried pellet and paste, but couldn't get a proper bite. The carp just weren't getting their heads down.

Tom Mangnall on P1 was picking up a few fish my slapping a pellet around and Vince Shipp on P5 had caught a couple of fish, but no one was running away with it.

To be honest I became a little preoccupied trying to catch carp, partly because I thought I would be too far behind to claim a silvers payout. As it turned out the silvers weren't feeding either with only 10lb needed to 2nd in silvers.

The island only produced 1 carp on paste. The left margin where I had been feeding pellet produced only 1 carp on 6mm pellet, but it was my 6m meat line which produced the bulk of my fish.

A difficult day and I just wish I had brought some caster or at least concentrated on soft pellet to put together a net of silvers. As it happened I was 1 out of the money (for the silvers) for the 3rd time in the last 4 matches.

1st 133- 0 - Ryan Shipp - p13 (chopped worm & caster)
2nd 98-15 - Dave Wescott - p19 (paste)
3rd 76- 2 - Adrian Jeffery - p15
4th 63-13 - Rod Wootton - p11
5th 62-14 - Tom Mangnall - p1
6th 46- 2 - Vince Shipp - p5

Silvers
1st 19- 0 - Ryan Shipp - p13
2nd 13- 6 - Eric Fouracre - p24
3rd 10- 3 - Rich Lovering - p21

19/07/15 - Ivy House - Willow

Weight - 25lb 0oz (8lb 2oz - silvers)
Catch - 2 Carp, 52 Roach, 5 Skimmers, 1 Perch
Weather - Mostly sunny and breezy
Match - Float Only rd 4 - 22nd out of 40 - 2nd in section

I was looking forward to this match and walking around the lakes there was the usual chat about where to draw and where to avoid. At the moment much of it is guess work until the lakes settles after being divided in 2. On paper the smaller lake (Match) nearer the café looked the best although today there would be 15 anglers on it, meaning only 5 space pegs. The far lake (Willow) would also have 15 anglers and a little more space and the new canal would have 10, which most people wanted to avoid.

Peg 28 put me on the far side of Willow, with the small lake behind, which meant plenty of room, however this area of the lake has been poor recently so a difficult day was likely. My section started at p21 (next to the causeway) drawn by Tim Ford who I expected to do the business, leaving the rest of us (Glenn Calvert, Kev Molton and Mike West) to slug it out for 2nd in section. Paul Elmes was to my left on p30, so I really did have plenty of room.


After Tuesday's match I had a plan of fishing long with pellet, 7m for skimmers and the margins for later. This plan now needed a little adapting, because the long line was a little deeper than expected and being a poor area of the lake decided to go down the route of trying to catch everything. The extra space also meant I could still have a pellet/corn line set up away from me for the carp/big skimmers. Well that was the plan.
Starting on expander over the pellet/corn I got dings on the float from little fish. A switch to corn meant no more dings but no fish either. Going over to 13m, where I fed 2 balls of groundbait with caster, chopped worm and pellet resulted in a 8oz skimmer straight away then nothing. On to the 7m line where I fed caster, corn and a small ball of groundbait produced 2 small skimmers on double dead maggot.

I was hoping for something a little bigger in the opening hour, but all attempts for a proper skimmer failed. Although with the wind blowing into the other end of the lake, meant it was mostly flat calm in front of me, which combined with the bright conditions wasn't ideal.

Since I had seen very little caught in my section I decided to swap my skimmer rig (SM chimp > .12 > 16 B911) for a more delicate roach rig (Jolly > .10 > 20 silverfish maggot) fishing caster which kept me occupied for a couple of hours whilst keeping an eye on everyone.
At the half way stage another attempt at catching a decent skimmer or even a carp over the pellet/corn line or the long line failed. There were a few carp cruising which I tried to mug, but as soon at the pole came towards them they bugger off.

So with 2.5hrs left it was decision time. I noticed Tim, Glenn and Kev catch a carp and felt I had to do the same in light of the absence of any decent skimmers.

Initially caster/corn was fed down the right margin and groundbait down the left. Just like Tuesday attracting the fish into the swim wasn't the problem, getting a bite was. I managed a roach and 6lb carp from the right margin on corn and a 2lb skimmer and a double figure common from the left on double corn.

In the end I was quite pleased with my efforts beating everyone between p21 and p37. As expected Tim won my section. Despite the difficult fishing I enjoyed the day. Even the forecast rain stayed away.

1st 317-11 - Chris Davis - p11 (M)

2nd 81-14 - Bela Bakos - p39 (W)

3rd 67-11 - Dick Bull - p20 (M)

4th 61- 4 - Steve Tucker - NC10

5th 55-14 - Craig Edmunds - p4 (M)

6th 51- 8 - Martin Lenaghan - p14 (M)

Silvers

1st 42-12 - Steve Tucker - NC10

2nd 40- 1 - Leon Hubbard - p17 (M)

3rd 26- 5 - Clint Wotlyla - p37 (W)

18/07/15 - Fishponds

Weight - 75lb
Catch - 14 Carp
Weather - Mostly sunny and windy
Match - 8th out of 10

Today was a lead/feeder rod only afternoon/evening match at my club water. Not being a fan of this style of fishing, I don't normally fish these matches, preferring to watch a float going under rather than a tip rod pulling round. However, because I needed to sort a few things out Saturday morning I decided to book in.

On arrival Joe Thompson was 'delighted' to see me - he obviously received the letter from his insurers informing him that my insurers are taking legal action to recover the costs of his very minor collision with my car. Fortunately I drew the other side of the side, so didn't need the ear defenders.

Peg 16 put me in the far corner with the wind off my back. Its a peg I don't particularly like, because its quite snaggy close in and your options are quite limited. So I wasn't bursting with enthusiasm and already regretting the decision to fish. However, it wasn't raining which a pleasant change - every cloud....

Setting up didn't take long. 1 lead rod and 1 method to fish left and right down each bank. Bait was 8mm or 11mm pellet, so very simple.

4 carp in the first hour, followed but only 1 in the second, meant I was falling behind those I could see, but I just didn't get the feeling there was any volume of fish in front of me, so just kept piling in the pellet hoping to draw a few fish in. This did work, but the problem was the snags. I had all my fish down the right bank on the lead towards a partially sunken tree. Assuming I managed to pull the fish away from the tree, it was a case of making sure I avoided the other snags on the way in. In total I lost 8 fish, which may have been enough to frame, but my average stamp of fish was just 5lb, compared to the usual 7lbers.

Well done to Dave who won his first Glenfall AC match with 200lb.

1st 204- 5 - Dave Bradley - p20
2nd 162- 1 - Brian Gilbert - p6
3rd 144- 8 - Glenn Putterill - p12
4th 118- 4 - Andy Bradley - p25
5th 111-14 - Nick Jordell - p7
6th 103-10 - Eddie Long - p1

14/07/15 - Ivy House - Willow

Weight - 21lb 6oz
Catch - 26 Skimmers, 2 Roach
Weather - Dry start, then heavy drizzle
Match - Open - 3rd out of 26 - silvers (17th overall)

A little behind on my blogs (again), but decided to fish Tuesdays cost cutter open at Ivy House in preparation for the float only league on Sunday. Arriving at the café I wasn't the only one, with Tony Rixon, Chris Fox and Trigger bolstering the numbers.

As regulars know Andy Lloyd has being working hard to improve the venue. The latest work has seen the original causeway widened, the island flatten and the excess soil used to make a 2nd causeway splitting the lake in two, thereby creating a 20 and 24 peg lakes. Personally I think this will be a good thing in the long term and I'm sure commercially (lets remember Andy is running a business) it makes sense and should improve the fishing once the stocking of each lake is worked out.
The lakes had also been re-pegged and p37 put me on the island, next to the new causeway. Initially I was quite pleased, because the wind was blowing down this end and a couple weighs of carp had been caught during the previous week. However I was less pleased when the 2 pegs opposite were taken as well as p38 to my left, so I felt a little cut off.

After spotting a swirl by the causeway I started on the slapper rig hoping for an early carp, but never had a bite. A switch to 13m where the swim starts to shallow up, fishing 6mm expander over 6s and corn I had a big skimmer followed by a few more skimmers before it slowed, but still no carp. In fact everyone around me seemed to be struggling. Therefore decided to on the skimmers.

I had set up a secondary swim to my left in open water feeding groundbait and pellet. This produced a number skimmers throughout the match on various baits (expander, worm, dead maggot), but couldn't get a bite on corn, which has caught a lot of fish recently.

My 13m line had a regular helping of 6s, but the pellet only got nibbled from roach which was a little frustrating.

I had also been pinging pellet to the causeway all match, but no signs of fish so decided to feed groundbait, which brought the fish in, but I simply couldn't get a bite. This wasn't a unique problem, because a number of other anglers had similar issues. In hindsight I should have fished a longer line, or even set up a waggler. I just felt the fish where unsettled feeding against a bare bank. No doubt it wont be long before the green stuff starts growing back.

By the all out I was happy with how the match started, although disappointed with how in finished. I did consider staying on, but again the weather had turned to more of the wet stuff and I didn't fancy spending my evening getting even wetter.

Andy doesn't pay de-faults, so unfortunately Baggy who came 2nd in the silvers also framed, meaning my 3rd in the silvers put me 1 out of the money.

1st 137- 2 - Elick Payne - p18
2nd 113- 3 - Tony Rixon - p6
3rd 98- 8 - Andy Lloyd - p42
4th 71-11 - Chris Fox - p21
5th 66- 2 - Baggy - p16
6th 59-14 - Oggy - p20

Silvers
1st 47-15 - Craig Edmunds - p31
2nd 44- 2 - Baggy - p16
3rd 21- 6 - Ken Rayner - p37

12/07/15 - Trinity Waters - Woodlands

Weight - 44lb 12oz (3lb 15oz - silvers)
Catch - 7 Carp, 37 Roach, 3 Skimmers, 3 Rudd
Weather - Mostly overcast and showery
Match - Short Pole - rd 3 - 7th out of 28, 2nd in section

I'll be honest. I wasn't really looking forward to this match, mainly because I have struggled to come to terms with the venue, although to be fair I haven't had the best draws. So today was about just trying to have a days fishing, which meant my carryall was weighed down more than usually with various baits. The intention was if I couldn't catch carp, I would at least try for some silvers.

For the 3rd week on the bounce we have had nice weather during the week, but come Sunday it was back on with the Gore-Tex as it rained on and off for most of the day.

At the draw and peg 14 put me one peg away from the favoured corner of 15 where Martin Lenaghan sat. My section started with me going round the end bank to p22, which included Tony Rixon on p19 (with the big snag now removed) and Trigger on p22, which won the section in the last round.

When I sat down on the peg, I quite fancied the margins to produce as I had a little more space than some pegs. The right margin was about 2.5ft deep, so that would be fed with groundbait later in the match and the left margin was 4ft deep, which would be initially fed with caster, with the option to fed pellet later depending on how the match progressed.

At the start of the match I hedged my bets a little feeding 6s to my right and groundbait/caster to my left. Starting in the right hand swim with paste was a little slow, eventually hooking my first fish, a 3lb 'flying' bream after 15mins, which promptly threw the hook mid air - bugger.

Despite loads of fizzing I couldn't get another bite on paste, so switched to a 1g silvers rig and double dead reds on the hook. Netting a 3lb carp. The left hand swim failed to produce, so decided not to bother with it. Everyone else seemed to have caught a couple of early skimmers or carp, but after an hour everyone was now struggling.

A switch to the left hand margin fishing with one of Mike Nichols favourite float patterns, a 4x14 jolly I started catching some very small roach on caster, with the occasional bigger 2oz fish. At one point the swim went quiet and I thought perhaps a carp had moved so tried the paste rig without success. Switching back to the caster rig and the swim was now full of motherless minnows (no doubt attracted by the paste) and I couldn't get a proper bite.

The right hand depth swim was proving to be a nightmare. There was loads of fizzing, but simply couldn't get a bite. A number of people were experiencing the same issue and can only put it down to the fish feeding a couple of feet off bottom. In an attempt to force the fish down I feed a big pot pellet, fishing worm which produced 2 skimmers, but nothing else.

I had also started feeding 6s to my left in an attempt to catch shallow mostly at 2ft deep on 6mm banded pellet. This produced a few better roach, but pulled out of a couple, so switched to a light 6-10 hollow. Typically my next bite was a carp, which kited right snagged up on Dave Evans rig. Fortunately Dave was very good about it and I managed to unhook his rig, before landing my carp. A 2nd carp soon followed, but the ripple had now moved out in the middle of the lake, before going flat calm. I couldn't get another bite after that.

So with 2hrs to go I had 3 carp and my silvers. I knew I was behind Martin, Tony and Trigger, but from what I could see not much was being caught.

I had started feeding groundbait down my edge an hour previously, but so far couldn't get a bite using my favourite Carrat float. I tried bunches of maggot, worm, double corn and meat. Eventually I had a carp on double 8mm meat. I couldn't get a bite anywhere else so for the last 30mins stuck with the margin and caught 3 more carp all on meat. Needless to say the margin was solid by the all out, oh for an extra 30mins.

It looked like Trigger had at least won the section, but it would be close between Tony and myself. During the weigh in it became obvious the lake had fished harder than expected. By the time we got to Trigger I was leading the section, beating Tony by 3lb and needed Trigger to frame so I could pick up the section which he duly did.

1st 110- 2 - Mike Nichols - p31
2nd 59- 8 - Craig Edmunds - p22
3rd 52-15 - Glenn Bailey - p4
4th 52-12 - Paul Elmes - p3
5th 52- 4 - Gordon Cannings - p7
6th 46-10 - Rod Wootton - p2

Silvers
1st 23- 9 - Vic Bush - p30
2nd 9- 1 - Dave Evans - p13
2nd 9- 1 - Tom Mangnall - p25

05/07/15 - Lands End - Johns Lake

Weight - 63lb 7oz (7lb 15oz silvers)
Catch - 12 Carp, 7 Skimmers, 3 Crucians, 2 Roach, 1 F1
Weather - Dry start, but some very heavy showers
Match - Float Only Series rd 3 - 21st out of 40, 2nd in section

After a good breakfast at Shipham I arrived with enough time to walk around the lakes with Mike Walker who has only fished the venue a handful of times. The usual questions of where I would want to draw came up and to be honest I wasn't that bothered, but with 15 anglers on Johns lake I thought that might be the lake to avoid.

Mike drew my peg from yesterday and went on to win his section. I wasn't so lucky, with peg 45 which is probably one of the worst pegs on lake 3. It can occasionally produce but with Rod Wootton on p46, neither of us were looking forward to it. My 5 peg section included 41, 42 and 50 and neither Rod or I expected to pick up any coin today.

In the knockout I had Glenn Calvert, who was on p68, so at least we were on the same lake, but to be honest I didn't fancy my chances of getting through to the next round.

As you will see from Mike Nicholls blog I took to the boat. Mike has been very busy doing shows and hasn't had time to trim back the island foliage. As a consequence there was a number of sedges and brambles trailing into the water. After clearing my island of debris, which meant I could fish tight to the island, I cleared Rod's as well (I did consider dropping extra branches into his swim - lol).

My Captain Pugwash impression, meant I only just set up in time for the all in, but I had noticed a few fish milling around in the gap between the island so having a boat over their heads didn't have any ill effects on the swim.

Starting across on paste in the gap and I had 3 good size carp for just over 20lb after 30mins, which was a really good start and a bit of a surprise. Like yesterday the carp soon wised up to it and I started to get loaded of little dinks. A switch to the pellet rig revealed the potential culprits as smaller skimmers, which meant it was time to rest the swim.

Fishing along the island produced a few decent silvers which I would have been happy to keep catching to let my margin which was fed with hemp/meat and my island gap swim time to settled. However, Rod was now catching in the swim I cleared out for him and I knew Mike on p50 was also catching.

The forecast light rain, turned into a couple of heavy deluges and I was just pleased to have taken my coat from the car, unlike a couple of others who were deceived by the sunny start to the day.

The fish seemed to have been put off by the rain, since we all stopped catching. Fortunately I managed a couple more fish from the island on paste or pellet, but it was noticeable the pellet fish were a smaller stamp.

My margin swim only produced 2 carp, which was a disappointment and my down the track meat swim didn't produce at all. By the all out Rod had more carp than me, but I had the bigger stamp so it would be close. As it turned out my silvers swung the decision by 4lb.

Second in section is more than expected so I cant be too disappointed and I had hoped in vain Mike's 95lb would be enough to frame so I could pick up section money by default. However, there were a number of ton weights on match and speci lakes.

As for the knockout, Glenn beat me by 10lb - so well done Glenn.

1st 186- 4 - Tony Rixon - p38
2nd 175-11 - Kev Molton - p33
3rd 163-12 - Dan White - p13
4th 117-14 - Craig Edmunds - p3
5th 111- 5 - Steve Seager - p16
6th 102-12 - Mike Walker - p19

Silvers
1st 27-13 - Andy Hembrow - p34
2nd 16-15 - Kev Molton - p33
3rd 14- 7 - Mike Duckett - p21

04/07/15 - Lands End - Match Lake

Weight - 104lb 1oz
Catch - 21 Carp, 3 Skimmers, 3 Perch, 2 F1s, 2 Roach
Weather - Warm & sunny
Match - Open - 2nd out of 14

Beginning to feel a lot better about my fishing now following a section win last weekend and a PB weight on Wednesday, However, it's easy to understand why some anglers threaten to quit whilst on a poor run.

Entering the draw with a positive mind set and drew p19 which is not always a winning peg, but usually very consistent and I was looking forward to a good day.

Since I haven't been here for a few weeks, asking around what's working, the reply came back pellet, pellet and more pellet. What about paste or meat? No, no one has really caught on it. Sod it, I mixed up some paste and cut up 2 tins of meat any way, simply because this a tricky time of the year with the fish coming off the back of spawning and may possibly going at it again.

A number rigs were set up to target the island with paste or pellet, plus a couple rigs for down the track for meat and a silvers rig just in case.

Starting across to the island with paste whilst everyone was still feeding I caught my first fish after 15mins, shortly followed by another, before they went skittish swimming through the peg pulling the rig out of the paste. A switch to pellet produced a couple more fish, but it was very difficult to get a proper bite. Just ask Jamie Parkhouse on p21, who I thought was running away with the match, however very few of the fish hooked were actually landed.

A switch to fishing down the track over micros & 4s with a banded 6 would I hope produce a few skimmers whilst the carp settled back down. It proved to be hard work in the bright conditions catching only 1 skimmer and a roach. Rising bubbles revealed there were a few fish feeding, so tried worm instead which did improve things with a couple of F1s and skimmers, but it was still slow going. A 2nd back up pellet swim to my right didn't produce anything and since we were now half way though the match I needed a rethink.

A pot of hemp & meat down the track transformed my match. After picking off a couple more fish from the island, the meat line produced 13 carp in the last 2hrs, which was a nice way to finish the match. I still thought Jamie had beaten me, but he had continue to lose fish throughout the match and I was fairly sure I beaten the anglers on my side of the lake.

On the all out the grapevine suggested that as well as James Withers on P1 catching late and Lewis Jones on p3 catching all match, Mike Duckett (p8) and Ray White (p11) had also caught well, however this turned out to be a bit of wind up.

1st 155- 5 - Lewis Jones - p3
2nd 104- 1 - Ken Rayner - p19
3rd 96- 3 - James Withers - p1
4th 85- 4 - Rich Lovering - p13
5th 59- 8 - Jamie Parkhouse - p21
6th 57- 6 - Ray White - p11

Silvers
1st 19-14 - Andy Hembrow - p6
2nd 18-10 - Rod Wootton - p5
3rd 13- 0 - Mike Duckett - p8

01/07/15 - Fishponds

Weight - 403lb 14oz
Catch - 49 Car, 2 Rudd
Weather - Hot, mostly sunny.

Well I seemed to have timed having a week off work with some very hot weather. Happy days, but the hot sticky nights, means not a lot of sleep, so decided to make the most of the situation and get up early for a short session at my club water.

At 6.20 I was sat on peg 6 ready to go. The peg offered a shallow margin to the left which I felt would be the best place to target the carp in the warm conditions.

Since there were a few visible fish I started fishing shallow with 8mm pellet and after 90mins had 16 for about 128lb.

In the meantime I was feeding a few 6s into the left margin and it was now solid. Fishing paste on my top 3, I  just kept catching including a number of 'doubles' up to 13lb 9oz.

After 4hrs fishing I decided to call time, because the intention was for a short session before it got too hot, but I have no doubt I could have pushed for 500lb. Besides my back was starting to ache a little.

The lake hasn't been fishing that well recently, so today came as a surprise, but to be honest the fish were just there. In total I only fed 2pts of pellet and normally I would expect to feed at least 3x times that amount.

After some hard fishing over the last couple of months it was nice to catch, beating my previous PB by 30lb. Lets hope I can kick on from here