Uk champs rnd 2 glebe

Looked forward to a nice day off  work and a visit to the glebe had a walk round with Ben Hagg and Jamie park house had some banter and talks of a dream draw !!!!!

Into the tin of dreams and pulled 79 lake 5 middle of the lake penned in!!!! My head was gone before we even started I set up waggler and bomb and hardly used it wind was pushing through left to right. So I set my stall stall to fish caster shallow and through the layers at top kit plus 3 (first mistake) shoulda fished it long !!! Had an edge line either side at top for slightly out from the bank where I found some clean flat spots!!! At the all in chucked the bomb across and fired pellet and fed my caster line had a few chucks on bomb and wag for nothing so went on the caster line losing 2 carp in two puttings 😡😡😱 then all I could catch was skimmers and the odd pasty had a hectic spell shallow of 3 carp 😂then lost won and it died went back fishing it through the layers and just bream 😡😱 so primed my edge and went in 8mm banded floats buried 3 pound skimmer !!!! I caught a few I learnt a few things and enjoyed the day just not the result I was hoping for!!!! It was just one of them days I ended with 12 pound of skimmers and 29 of carp for 41 pound only beating one in my section 😱😱😢😢 Pete archer on end peg wind blowing in won the section with 150 pound then there was a couple other ton weights. So not the draw I wanted gotta be due a flyer at hayfield in the next round pls pls pls save some pride 😂😂 I wheel span out the car park !!!!😂😂 didn’t hang about for the results. Anyway onwards and upwards gotta get some prep done now sort my act out !!! Proper calamity 😂😂👍👍 thanks for reading sorry for boring you with pour results but I don’t want be acussed of you only sing when u win😂 and it gives me something to look back on next year and remember where I went wrong no pics as took me to long to setup and as soon as it finished I was gone like lightning 😂😂

Summerlane rnd 4 evening silvers only

Well needed a good draw for this one to keep top of the table and was not disappointed as pulled peg 2 which is usually a great silvers peg with the added pressure of it being golden peg 😬😬 the wheels were smoking on my trolley I pretty much ran to it 😂😂. Set my stall out to fish worm over gb at 13m at 11 o’clock and micros and expander at 1 o’clock I also had a short line but never had a sniff on it. At the all in fed my lines and had a few chucks on the tip for not a sniff I should of give it more time but being an eager beaver!!! I’ve gone on pole early and ruined my lines catching carp and the odd small skimmer took most of my 7 skimmers on the expander but shoulda stuck to worm I think🤔🤔 didn’t think I was doin too bad in my section then Chris zsacks said he had 11 skimmers 😳😳 I feel I fished a pour match really but were they even there ?? My 7 went 6.6 lb for 2nd in section Chris’s 11 went 16 pound to win the match
Well done mate smashed it !!!and took a well deserved pound back 👍👍 on to my other side bets took one off des Phillips and sensas sam either side of me dangerous Dave ran off without paying then Thorney the king of summerlane finally got his mojo back and took a pound back after the 5 in a row I’ve had off him 😂😂👍👍👍 then I got absolutely ripped to pieces after the match but FairPlay I would of done the same 😂😂!!!! I’m still top just joint top now 😂😂 but thorneys got a big weight and chris zsacks and a few others are now on my tail with 2 rounds left !!! It will be what it will be 👍👍
So roll on the next one hope I draw a flier and it’s solid !!🤞🤞😂😂👍 thanks for reading 

Todber hillview Weston aa away day

Been dying to get to this prolific venue after seeing the results every week!! And finally we did. We had bright sunshine and wind !!!

On the way we stopped off at Skevys cafe which was quite good when the food came but there was only 2 of them trying to sort 25 lads !!!on arrival stopped at the tackle shop and was very impressed the staff were helpful and friendly we drew at the cafe and not ever seeing the lake didn’t know what to expect didn’t really care it was all about having a nice day!!so I pulled 43 I herd 49 was a good peg so thought I wasn’t far away but it was on the far section of the lake 😂😂 . I was slightly disappointed with my peg as no island chuck and my peg was facing down to the corner!!! For company to my left i had Paul Hawkins who was really quiet (which was strange 😜) and Titch (pink gin squad) Williams to my right it was pretty quiet while setting up then guess who ?? Local bait ledgend Tom thick and Lewis jones and my peg was facing the pair of them I thought well if I didn’t catch much least I could watch these two😎.

The pic don’t do it justice the wind was coming hard from right to left making presentation on the pole difficult. First hour I’ve struggled to present anything properly.but from the off I was pinging in some 6mms at 18m just for something to do if it was hard or whatever!! After an hour of watching Lewis have one a bung on the tip I gently chucked out the bomb and it went round slow and steady all little pasties pulling the rod off the rest mind had a carrasio aswell !! But after giving Simon Ryall a load as he kept losing fish I lost a few but his new name is beachcaster Barry !!! So I shortened my hook length and started to land them but I wasnt going anywhere fast tom was catching steady on his shallow rig now and looked like I was gonna get proper bashed up !!!  But I kept feeding and trying my edges and other lines for nothing really then the tip line went dead and the wind dropped a little bit so got my head down went on me pellet line I was feeding by hand all day with 6s I was getting weird bites and losing fish and tearing my hair out switched up to an 8mm then had a nice run off fish soon as I hooked one I threw a small handful of 6s in the water as hard as I could to make the noise I now call this technique the slam dunk 😜😂. I had a steady last two hours catching in spells but all small fish mainly pounders and I’ve not seen a fish over 2 pound!!! Through out the day we’ve had loadsa banter me tom Lewis and Titch all giving each other a load Lewis is now the carrasio kid !!! He could only catch one or two then nothing and they got funny mouths 😂😂 he told us many times through out the day.had a few side bets on the day as it’s away day had a fiver with Billy no mates Jonny page who drew down the bottom on his own no wind 😂😂 cheers Jonny had another fiver with Matt Thomas who drew the flier 49 and won the match with 130 ish I think musta been solid 😜
Well done 👍 pound with tom thick I scraped that one by a pound Paul Hawkins cheers mate dan Latimer cheers mate I had to give one to beachcaster Barry but took one off peanut who won the silvers with 30 pound  cheers mate then it was round to Thorney I’ve had 4 in a row was it gonna be five course it was 😂😂 des Phillips had to give me one also 😂😂 had more side bets than pellets on me tray 😱😱 I only weighed 71 pound but probably had 65 fish so a nice day. After the match we went to the crown just up the road for results and grub and more banter I think I was crying with laughter at one stage!!! Peanut won silvers Jerry day won his section 80 ish pound Lewis won my section with 90 odd and mattthomas won the match well done to all and thanks for reading can’t wait to go there again awesome fishery 😊👍👍👍 thanks to everyone for the laughs on the day and thanks for reading 👍👍

Summerlane rnd 3 evening sweep

11 lads made it to this round with it being an everything counts round just hoped for a flyer 1 10 11 or 18 but it wasn’t to be drew peg 8 again (jungle warfare) same as last week😱😱 good for silvers not great with carp!!!!
With mark Thorne in my section on 12 didn’t really think I stood a chance 12 is a lovely edge peg and carp live there 
There he is!!! Any way plan was fish it the same as last week but with stronger hook and white hydro to give me a good chance of landing a carp or too if the chance arrived😳my gb was slightly different too at the all in filled one line in positive and one quite negative flicked some pellets with the catty and chucked out the conker. 1min and 10 seconds it’s flown round a lovely skimmer getting on for 2 pound thought come on then let’s have it but not another bite on it😢😢😢 so went on me positive line and struggled had 2 skimmers off it and 3 eels and 1 carp but it was a lump 🤞🤞🤞it would beat Thorney Chris zsacks was to my left he had a mare losing a few carp and a pound to me 😁😁 the whole place fished rock hard again really. But Thorney lost 9 carp and landed 1 snapped a top kit and lost a feeder he was distraught and he had to give me another pound 😂😂😂 that’s 4 in a row 😊 dangerous Dave and lee Phillips struggled off flyers 10 and 11 and sensas Sam Johnson made no mistake off his flyer 18 winning his section and match with 45 pound tough night once again but lots of banter at the weigh in which I filmed it’s on the Weston aa fb page if anyone wants a laugh it’s a good job we had the banter cos the fishing was hard 👊👊👊 anyway I had my dropper when I was away on holiday so can’t afford any bad results and 🤞🤞 2 section wins out of 2 seeing me top of the table 😊😊 just gotta get my drawing arm back for a big weight in case it comes down to weight at the end as thorneys gotta 90 pound in the mix 😱😱
Roll on Thursday first visit to todber hillview hopefully some more nuggets !!!!😜😜😜 thanks for reading 👍👍👍👍👍

Psv club shiplate mainlake

Didn’t know where to fish this Sunday as not a lot on as it was viaduct spring league but thought sod it il try get on the psv match at shiplate as it’s close to home .

Couple of msgs and I’m in bargain👍👍 then I herd someone needed a fill in at viaduct. But I’m not one to mess around with matches !!!!

So In my head if I don’t draw a flier I’m fishing for silvers 👊👊 but with a few pound side bets knocking about I needed some carp 🤪.on arrival Adam was running the match today paid him my pennies and had a brew little chat with the regulars and steve and carol then into the draw 1 or 15 pls pls pls out comes 14 😱😱 it’s a good area loadsa water to go out 

So had various rods set up for tight to island and off the island and on the point and 1 and only pole line straight in front 11m at the all in I fed the pole line with 3 big pots of groundbait 1 with chop worms and caster another with micros expanders just to mix it up a bit give me hook bait options !!!! Anyway after chucking various rods around for an hour and a bit had 2 skimmers on the rods and that was it could see a few bubbles on the Gb had a look with 6mm expander and it’s buried straight away I had a nice hour putting around ten pound in the net then it died so put a couple more balls in and chucked the rod out again but I was just getting liners or skimmers pecking at my bait 😢😢 just wanted a carp or 2 to help my side bets but it didn’t happen so stayed on the silvers line for the rest of the day just putting the odd skimmer in the net around the pound mark and 2 lovely little tench foul hooked a couple of carp which killed my swim lost a couple of 2 pounders at the net too 😡😡😡 at the all out I had 29 skimmers and 2 tench hopefully enough for the silvers ??? And it was I weighed in 30lb dead probably best silvers weight in a match to date FairPlay it musta been solid cos I’m crap at silvers 😂😂😂 but always learning and hopefully getting better 😜😜 
I was quite chilly at the end wind coming down the lake all day 😂😂 
There’s the pro weigh sheet psv club don’t mess around mind 😂😂😂 rig today was .6 wire stem Drennan a s to 0.13 Preston re flow to 0.11 bottom to 16 guru f1 pellet hook 6mm bait tech expander I did swap to 4s now and again and worm and caster but 6mm was best by far!!!on the way back paid out a few nuggets out to double decker russ pecker who I got in on the match 😳 then 🥜 who challenged me off another lake 😬😬 then little Ryan who smashed the match off peg 3 but all was not lost as took one of Adam 😁.All in all had a lovely day roll on Monday evening summerlane evening sweep rnd 3 🤞🤞 crossed for another solid peg and hopefully some nuggets back😂😂

Acorn evening match

Arrived at the fishery in plenty of time only 13 booked on so plenty of space!!and one no show mentioning no names matt roden!!hope all is well 👍Into the draw pulled peg 9 but I thought it was 6 then realised what a muppet 😂😂 anyway they all say 9 is a flyer so was quite happy till I got there wind ploughing waves through the peg from right to left could of surfed it!!!!!

Plan was paste short caster shallow and a mini method rod for the point as it was so windy at the all in fed my lines and went on the paste within 5 mins I was into a skimmer then another then a roach then a carp finally but hook pulled snapped my only set up paste float 😱😱😡😡 I was gonna chuck the method out and set up another up but thought I’d have a little look on the caster line first then had a steady hour putting the odd fish in the net but all smallish fish f1s mainly to 2 pound with a dog roach and some skimmers in between the f1s. Strange as last year I was catching some big carp on the caster but they don’t seem to want it this year 😢😢 I could see fizzing on my paste line so chucked method set up another rig and went on it I had one bite on method but missed it as was faffing with my new paste rig when I finally got it in had a nice spell catching a good tench more skimmers and a couple of small carp but lost a couple and it died so finished the match with 3 more f1s on the caster. Lots of fish all small tho put my rigs away then headed to van to get jumper spoke to mark bromsgrove he said he had 60 pound ish I thought I had around 50 😱😱 looked over to high 30s and mike chapman playing a fish Mark said he packed his rigs away and looked up and mike was still fishing down his edge so I shouted over we’ve finished then mike shouts FISH ON like I was the whistle 😂😂😂 anyway packed away shaking my head and then started weighing mark bromsgrove done me by 8 poundish of peg 7 I had 60 pound dead off 9 chap called Adam had 31 odd off 11 then round to Thorney to see how the pound was looking I new he had a few but he was saying 30 pound on the wind up but he had 50.8 so I smiled and proceeded to give him a load 😂😂 3 in a row cheers Thorney I also asked him where he was Sunday as I needed more money 😂😂 he took it well as always tho 👍👍👍 then onto my other side bet good old walshy he seemed pissed off getting bitted out on the paste but he also had to give me a pound😂😂 that’s another 3 in a row but he’s a good sport and I’m sure il have to give all these pounds back sooner or later!!! All the way round I was second dangerous dan beat Toby for there pound bet then it was Lewis Jones who I challenged to a pound but he declined thank god has he pissed the match really with 87 pound odd then Titch on his first visit to the fishery had 46.2 👍 then round to good old mike Mark whispered to me walk past say he’s disqualified so we did then we had a laugh 😂 but mike didn’t offer to put a fish back he just smiled and took Mark bromsgroves 2nd place with  69.4 😱😱😱 I think if he would of pushed me out of the money like that I would of had something to say but he didn’t cos I didn’t catch enough so I kept quiet ish anyway and that was that I just can’t catch big fish there at the minute but regardless I had a good evening and probably caught more fish than most estimated 30-40 fish in total but tiddlers 🤪🤪🤪 there all a good bunch of lads down there and always enjoy it 👍👍👍👍 thanks for reading 👍👍👍🎣🎣

Weston aa evening sweeps rnd 2

Well missing round 1 last Monday being on holiday that’s my dropper for the series gone so needed a good result but with the series being 1 week everything counts 1 week silvers only I missed a carp round where I feel I’m stronger but these matches are usually a good crack weather the fish play ball is another story!!! Anyway arrived in plenty of time and was a boiling hot bright sunshine and no wind so was very doubtful of catching much so into the draw peg 8 comes out usually a good area for silvers 😁but plan was to fill in a short line with worm caster for some eels if I was struggling gb worm and caster at 13m at 11oclock and micros and expander at 2 o’clock at the all in fed my lines and chucked out small method with white bandem which the skimmers seem to like there 2nd chuck had a liner was feeling confident 3rd chuck some kids came along and chucked a massive rock in on the feeder line 😡😡😡😡 so they got a mouthful of obscenities(park lake fishing)!!!and tried the short line only to have one roach in 10 mins buy this time I could see my 13m lines bubbling so went on the Gb first it didn’t take long and I netted a nice skimmer around a pound 😊😊 bargain then a roach then it was slow so kept trying the other lines and resting it trying to get the fish to settle and the middle hour of the match I put a few together not fast and furious but some lovely bites. I looked round and Shawn kitteridge was sat behind with his camera 📷 


I had a call from sensas Sam Johnson and I gave him the old I’m struggling only got 2 roach 😂😂 he was saying the same but 2 small skimmers but Sam loves to tell a porky or two 😂😂 I couldn’t see many but most were struggling so I was told. So with my many £1 side bets I just got my head down trying to pick off the odd fish last hour was a real struggle only putting one skimmer in the net as they seemed to have moved down to Jerry day on 9 who had 4 skimmers in the end and many carp 😂😂 but my peg was still fizzing it was frustrating at times but had a great evening with some good lads I’m really enjoying my fishing at the moment and that’s what it’s all about at the weigh in we had some good banter dangerous Dave Collins won the match with 12lb+ I came second with 11 lb + but got the all important section win 💪👍😂 
Think he was more chuffed with winning the quits on a double or quits 😂😂 well done mate 

There’s a little video of the weigh in on match fishing south west fb page and on the Weston aa page .was a good evening Lee des Phillips scraped his section with 3pound off flyer peg 1 also unfortunately I missed the weighing of Lee and dangerous Dave !!!but I enjoyed collecting my nuggets off the lads 😜😜 thanks for reading I’m at acorn Thursday evening and trying to get a pass for Sunday but don’t know where to go yet ???

Acorn evening match

Gagging to get back on the bank after my lovely week away so first trip out acorn to try and get over the demons of getting bashed up by mr rixon loadsa banter flying round with Matt roden Adrian mercatto mark Thorne and peanut 🥜 who managed to blag a lift of Thorney to watch !!! Any way I had a few bets placed hoping no bank loans were needed peanut even had a pound with me betting on Thorney 🤪🤪 in to the draw back and pulled out 39 lovely had mark bromsgrove to my right
And that’s Kev Perry in front weather looked perfect before the start then it rained and rained for most of the match (not what I wanted 😡) but plan was paste top 4 down shelf pellet down edge and across if needed. And caster shallow top 6 at the all in fed my lines had squeaker and a foul hooker on the paste then one in the edge then it was solid on the caster line it was like an aquarium but they were trying to eat white bubbles that were all in my peg but I had a good hour putting a few in the net was getting little spells on the caster 2 or 3 then waiting for bites but I was mainly catching small f1s 😬😬 not the bigger stamp carp that I was after but I kept at it I did have one carp over 7 pound but mostly f1s around 1-2 pound really enjoyed the evening didn’t think I’d done any good especially when kev perry said he had 120 pound I thought I had 60 so I wasn’t far out heres the results 
Just sneaked in the money a few descions probably cost me a couple of fish but don’t think I could of caught up with kev it was nice taking a few quids back and only giving one out to Adrian who done me by a few oz 😁😁 good turn out and some great banter afterwards as always 👍👍👍 can’t wait till next week and Monday sees me on summer lane silvers only match should be interesting as it has not been fishing to its usual standards yet but I haven’t been there yet 😂😂🤪🤪 cheers for that pound 🥜 now get back to shiplate where u belong !!!🖕🖕🖕🖕😂😂😂😂😂😂

(Backup) Kos kademena little harbour by hotel

Had a little window of opportunity to wet a line around 630 ish one evening can’t remember which night but sun was shining bit breezy gets down harbour no one fishing little look over the edge and could see some small stuff moving about so set up Drennan pellet wag size 12 kaizen guru hook keep it simple stolen bread from lunch. First drop bread gone no fish second drop same again 😡😡😡 third drop mrs sun hat blows in water so bout 10 chucks managed to retrieve it 😂😂 anyway after that got my head down and me and the mrs took in turns catching these pretty little spikey things 
They do fight quite well but as the bread dries out gets harder to mould round hook so we had a few fish and was quite enjoyable but frustrating as they have quite boney mouths and probably hook 1 in 5 bite 😱😱😱 never mind an hour had passed without a cocktail going down !!!! So back for swim shower tea and 🍹 yum yum .

2nd attempt on arrival to my favourite end peg on the harbour someone on there 😡😡😱😱 but he was ok he let me fish next to him and check his rig out he was using to sets of tiny trebles above were two shot and home made wag with some cheesy smelling paste right let’s have it then Pedro!!! Had a few chucks and was struggling ped was getting one a bung nearly then I realised I left my little mossella bag at the room with all my bits and bobs in 🤪🤪🤪 Pedro did give me one of his trebles rigs but I needed a float so off I went even got my new friend ped a bottle of water 😂😂 I came back ped loved his water gave me some paste and I sorted my rig out guru 16 xs this time then me and ped were fish for fish Upto 12oz but I helped him fill his little fish box up 

A good evening and a bit of a laugh with a language Barrier but fishing got us through it 👍 FairPlay to ped good job I kept my mouth shut cos he would’ve took a pound off me 😂😂
That was that had a great time away and got  a couple of hours fishing in 👍👍 home now need to do some prep and sort myself out now hope everyone’s had a great week thanks for reading 🎣🎣🎣😂😂👍👍😎😎😎