Sunday 28 January 2018

Sedges silvers series rnd 1

Not been out for 2 weekends and my last trip was a blankety blank so was gagging to get my string pulled!
Weather looked bang on for a few overcast slight ripple ssw wind. So rocked up about 830 in time for a quick brew and a bit of banter then into the bucket of dreams quite early and pulled 22 tile lake πŸ€” didn’t fancy it too much especially with the winner from last year on my left and year before on my right 😱 oh well just get my head down and try get a few !!!

Plan was gb feeder with maggot hook bait gb mag line at 13m at 11 o clock pellet line at 1 o clock 13m line and a top 6 pellet line πŸ‘Š. At the all in fed my pole lines and straight on the tip about 35 mins in not even a liner and Jamie park house to my left and bob guillick to my right went on the pole and pretty much straight away started getting bites so I followed suit. Tried the short line first with no joy then the mag line had a skimmer of about a pound thought lovely next drop bumped one 🀬 then had to wait for bites I had 3 more but they were getting smaller by the bite after cad potting too much killed my swim 😱 tried my other lines with no joy so around 130 now and I was proper struggling so tried the tip again poured a brew and bang tips gone round nice skimmer around the pound mark again lovely straight back out and just got rod on the rest and it was twitching again boom another lovely lil skimmer bob to my right was well ahead and getting consistent bites while Jamie was struggling so I carried on on the tip for a while but couldn’t get a bite so stuck on my gb mag line but couldn’t get a bite anywhere then out of knowhere float buried and elastic being stretched to the limit ‘‘twas a carp around the 10 pound mark hooked bang on clean under the pectoral fin πŸ˜‚ I did get it in the end unfortunately carps don’t count in this league never mind with not much time left straight back out and I’ve had another skimmer which looked a good two pound only for it to come off at the net 🀬 some choice words came out of my mouth so undeterred I cad potted some gb and mags in and chucked the tip out it went round on the drop only for it to fall off 😭😭then nothing last few mins back on the mag line had a tiny skimmer and that was it 🀞🀞Jamie packed up early and tipped back a pound bargain so I wasn’t gonna be last in section bob looked to have walked the section so chucked the gear in the van and back to the weigh in bob put 11+ lb on the scales I put 5.14 on Jamie park house dnw and said he was gonna take up golf πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ and me and bob gave him a load πŸ˜‚ but he took it wellπŸ‘ then the weights diminished down the section giving me 2nd in section quite happy with that from there really had to give bob a well deserved pound so I followed the weigh in to see how my other side bets had faired on arrival round the other side I was greeted by my old pal mark Thorne who asked what did u have I said 5.14 his reply was I got more than that. So we preceded to his weigh and mr clapp declares mark with 5.10 πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ so I then gave him a load πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ don’t count your chickens pal xxx onto jonny page he was tearing his hair out with 1 pound odd and had to give me diver 😁😁 things were looking up had a nugget off matt Thomas and Wayne staples then Shane must of been black told me he had 11 pound so I told him must of been solid bet u could of walked across it😜😜 and give him a well earned nugget. So a good day was had and happy with 2nd from there best bait was double mag over tom thick gb mixed with a secret!!!! Fished a drennan as7 1g float to 0.11 mainline 0.10 bottom yellow hydro well done bob for the section rich Cole won the lake with 13 pound and Jon fuidge won brick with 29 pound πŸ‘πŸ‘ roll on the next one hopefully weather will be kind. Thanks for reading hope everyone had a great day πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸŽ£πŸŽ£πŸŽ£πŸŽ£πŸŽ£πŸŽ£πŸŽ£πŸŽ£

Sunday 7 January 2018

Psv emerald ruby

First match of the year and first match as a Psv member. The match was supposed to be on jade but on arrival I was told it would be ruby and emerald I was a bit worried about ruby because it’s had some maintenance recently and I wasn’t sure of the fish stocks but hey ho it’s emerald bound to get a few bites !!!!
Hoping for 1 of the 4 pegs on emerald drew 11 which was far bank of ruby 😑with an island to go at 13m but no space behind had to double break 😱😱 trees above so rod out of the question. To be honest it looked quite nice no wind sunshine island lovely but the second the all in was called an absolute freezing north easterly started howling towards me from left to right.
Anway I fed some lines and started short on maggots nothing mid way across nothing island nothing open water nothing😱😱😱😱 by this time hour in I was Baltic thought need a tea so managed to under arm lil hybrid feeder about 15m to the side of the island 12mins on the stopwatch tips gone round hit it and it came off 😭😭😭  and that was that really word was everyone on ruby was struggling but Alan Healy aka des shipp was getting a bite a chuck peg 4 emerald across on the bread. 
Then Chris zacacks next door came for a chat and steve burgess they had a skimmer and a roach between them so it was not looking good by this time my lips were turning blue so had to have a walk so thought I’d go see what a bite looked like and wandered to des Healy’s peg and he didn’t disappoint losing one and landing one while I was there oh that’s what a bite looks like πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ there was a few blokes on jade watched one bloke for a minute or two and he was getting a bite a chuck but losing most of the fish shipping back like a snail and didn’t look like he was using elastic πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ bump πŸ˜‚ each to there own he was doing better than me back to my peg dobbed some bread around nothing cad potted micros sat on it nothing chucked feeder nothing sod it I can’t go on πŸ˜€πŸ€”πŸ€” packed up with an hour to go paid my nuggets to chris and steve and there’s a double or quits with big Ryan to look forward to 😑😑 welcome to the Psv club πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ so blankety blank hopefully that will be my worst match of the year and I can’t remember the last time I actually caught nothing!!! Herd on leaving des Healy finished with 14 carp and some bits and bobs I’m sure someone will post on the Psv fb page never mind on to the next gotta take the rough with the smooth sorry for boring you with my poor day but I gotta post the bad ones too !!! 
Roll on summer thanks for reading πŸ‘πŸ‘ 
No pics as my phone doesn’t like the cold ☀️☀️☀️