it was solid with fish cruising everywhere I thought I'm gonna empty it!!! Had a pound with young Ryan who was in the corner opposite and we had a bit banter took some tips the night before from venue expert russ peck so long story short I've tried mugging them in different ways slapping blind cad potting across and paste down the edges best lines were paste down the edges I've caught and lost fish and rigs down the left so moved away a bit then landed some very small carp from there then the right was the best but lost a few before putting some fish together in the last hour. I thought I had about 30 pound come the whistle but was a very tough day at 1 o clock I was nearly tying a noose and heading for a high tree.😂😂so I decided to help with the weighing being a guest and it appeared that most had a struggle with a chap called Bryan running away with the match weighing 113 pound. Think Ryan had around 60 pound and took my pound with pleasure !!!! Finally the scales reached me and to my surprise I put 40 pound 4 oz on and just scraped 4th place and got my money back bargain. On to the next one!!!Summerlane finale evening sweep series anything could happen Ron stark was winning with 5 points and myself and 2 pals were joint second goin into the match I had high hopes for a good draw and get amongst the skimmers at the draw I pulled 12 and as soon as I told Mark Thorne he ran off to his peg 11 in my section like a maniac he was faster than ussain bolt and Linford Christy shouting abuse at me telling me to shine my pound and I got no chance. !!! The way he went on I really wanted to beat him now!!! Gone in on worm over caster gb and chop worm and it buried straight away and I safely netted a skimmer around a pound I thought let's have it I'm gonna empty it and beat thorney. But after a small roach or 2 and not a lot else it died and I struggled to get anything but small roach and eel and another small skimmer. I really struggled and feared the worsed and was right thorney won the section and Ron won his so I was left with some more abuse from thorney and give him my pound !!!!!! Lee des Phillips had to give me pound tho so not all was lost!!!! But my top 3 finish was gone 😫😫😫😫never mind that's fishing it's been tough fishing this year but rewarding at the same time and the way Ron ran it was good keeping quite a few in with a shout the presentation was made over the harvester with some good banter and laughs.
The top 3 deserved winners kindly sponsored by local tackle shop fishing tackle warehouse big thanks to gav and dan and middy 
Good close matches with lots of banter and a great bunch of lads
Sunday sees me at sedges on the top kit series and Monday night knock up at Ambleside. Thanks for reading until next time hope everyone caught a few !!👍👍🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣
Plan was usual caster Shalla at top 5/6 two edges at top 4 with mags over gb and an across line if I was struggling. Think there was 16 fishing tonight. At the all in fed the edges and started pinging caster in like a machine 💪 straight down the edge 5 mags on a 16 guru xs and after 5 mins was playing one. Stayed down the edges for first hour putting around 20 pound in the net had roach perch crucians and carp lovely by this time the caster line was like a bubble bath and could see the odd fish there ITS TIME!!!! So went on it and never looked back really it wasn't fast and furious just steady putting a few in the net but the rain killed it a bit and I ran out of caster so I had to go back to my edges just taking odd fish out the right margin on mags over gb didn't catch fish down the left not sure why cos they were there. At the whistle I thought I had 60 to 70 pound. Didn't think anyone had emptied it so thought I may scrape in the money!!!! I went to the weigh in as approached mark bromsgrove and he had 74 pound odd and was leading oooohhhh was gonna be tight sam didn't weigh in toby had 30 odd Ivan had 40 ish I think so that was 3 lovely pound coins 😃😃😃 I weighed in 73.12 then round to mark Thorne and I think he put 73.4 on so not enough and another lovely pound from him on to walshy and chapman those two were close mike chapman on the golden peg won with 80 pound Walshy just behind then mark bromsgrove then me gutted just missed the money again but got a few nuggets of me mates and another lovely 3 hours fishing and bit of banter !!!!