Bits and bobs been here and there!!

Well sorry for lack of blogs I've been out a few times but had a lot on lately!!! Anyway couple of Sundays ago on the 18th June went to Evesham for the Wychavon qualifier with Sam Johnson it's nice to get on natural venues now and then. Anyway turned out there was 83 fishing and it had fished hard on the Saturday. So we got into the draw early and I pulled 18 a couple up from the bridge in the town.for company had tom scholey from catch more media on 19 had a chat with him really nice guy. Didn't know anyone else and Sam drew the complete opposite end up in the 80s somewhere. Looking at Saturday's results my peg weighed in a pound so I wasn't over joyed with confidence but you never know  I had a load of Lilly's and cabbages in front of me and it was scorching red hot. Long story short I was sweating my nut off and working really hard for small perch and a couple of roach didn't feel I was going anywhere and I wanted to qualify so I went out on the gb feeder hoping for something bigger but it never happened tom scholey to my right weighed 2.6 pound and chap to my left 4 pound I weighed in a pitiful 10 oz in my peg was a nightmare I had a family picnicking behind me and loadsa people and dogs running a round kids throwing stuff in but oh well something different after I weighed made a very quick exit back down the m5 !!!!!!

Then on to Monday night evening sweep down summerlane drew peg 3 and to be honest fancied it for a few but ended up having a very stressful evening bumping and losing carp under the tree down my right hand side it was so frustrating as I had enough bumped and lost enough fish to easily win the match!!! But Jerry day had a good laugh watching me f  ing and blinding. That was the end of that. 

Then Thursday was are away day at Walters lake south cerney. Was really hoping for a nice day fishing relaxing never seen the place before I drew 7 blue on arrival was faced with some splashing carp at 17.5 m across

 I didn't wanna fish long on pole so opted for small method across, caster shallow at top 6 and my two edges.hour in and I hadn't had a bite except liners on method. Saw a few fish on my caster line tried it to no avail but was getting signs of fish but they wouldn't take the bait. I was now scratching my head so set a bottom line up there where I had been feeding for silvers and knocked up some gb and it was a mare every time I went on the deep rig there was fish shallow so switch to the shallow rig nothing changed baits hooks and all sorts I did finally hook one that pinged off then I had a small roach!!! Seemed every one was struggling it was now the last hour and I'd had 1 roach it was embarrassing but edge time gone down the left on the paste couple of twitches and buried and was finally playing a nice fish about 7 pound gone straight in again and I foul hooked another and that was it game over another tough session😡😡😡I'd really had enough now but we went for a carvery after and had some nice grub and some good banter.

So after having 3 bad matches in a row weekend off the fishing to get over the stress !!!!!! 

So Sunday night after kids gone to bed sort my kit for Monday night silvers only summerlane evening sweep done some expanders made 3 rigs and tied 20 hooklengths up on the gizmo zt pro hook tyer which is an awesome bit of kit. At the draw I kept pretty quite for a change and stayed back till the end second from last choice peg 18 carp flyer !!! Ere we go again I thought! On arrival at the peg there was big plooms of mud coming up all over the peg and it was like a bubble bath of carp soup 😡😡😡 so anyway stick to the plan 11 m straight out gb caster worm to the right expander over micro and maggot on the drop at 6m to the right. First put in float buried carp giving me the right run around on yellow hydro and 0.11 bottom but got it in and it was foul hooked in the pec !!!! Second drop carp bloody hell. So tried the expander line one small roach the bubbling had calmed down back on to the worm and had 3 boot lace eels and a skimmer. Christopher the jinx zackacs popped by and while he was there all I did was bump and lose fish so he chipped off then I had a couple but was slow put a couple of roach in the net on the mags and lost 2 carp bloody things !!!! Last ten mins back on the worm line carp then another I just pulled hard for a break and they abliged it was now 13 mins past 9 I needed more straight away had a skimmer without baiting or anything straight back out quick as possible and had another one just as I un hooked the fish all in was called at 9:15 what a frantic end to the match wish I could of carried on. I ended up with 5 skimmers and some bits to just win my section by 8 oz thank god as I needed a result and it does pay never give up 7.10 was my weight and that was 3rd on the night needed that as my pound coins have been going astray lately but managed to claw a few back.😜😜here's the standings in our little series with 2 matches left it's all to play for 

 Thanks for reading hopefully start getting amongst it again now !!!!!!