Phil's day

Hi to all, the Weds club fished Beggar's Hall lake it seemed to be a good start no rain and the forecast fog was none existence. We had a good turnout of 17 anglers so split the match up into 3 sections two of 6 and one of 5 being the least likely to catch a carp. I drew peg 2 not a good peg by any means but it had to go in. I had a couple of places to fish to although it was very awkward fishing to the lily pads under a willow tree and a feeder for distance. I couldn't go too far as it's the narrowest part of the lake and with someone opposite me not a lot of room. Started off on feeder at 16 meters tried various baits but not a touch stayed with this for 2 hours. By this time I knew it wasn't going to happen so onto the pole at 12 meters - as I suspected the willow tree was a major problem. Still no bites and Colin next to me was in the same position. Once I had tried all my baits I lightened up my rig and decided to go for silvers. I then started to pick up odd perch of no size or value so cupped in a large pot of micros and maggots over the top and had some lunch. As soon as I went over the feed got my first roach about 4oz carried on with this until the end of the match and weighed in 4lb 11oz

Section 1: 1st Rob Calderón 50lbs 2oz and 2nd Jeff Pearson with 24lbs 7oz. Section 2: 1st Peter Green with 7lbs 11oz and 2nd Fred Hunt with 4lbs 14oz. Section 3: 1st Steve Foster 28lbs 7oz and 2nd Phil Whitmill with 4lbs 11oz. Pic is my peg 1.