Phil's day

Morning to all, the Weds club fished one of its four matches against Saffron Walden today and it was a good turnout in spite of the hot conditions. The pegs were evenly spaced all around the lake with good and bad pegs in so on this match we paid out four sections and a lowest weight prize which was kept quiet until the results. I drew peg 13 - not a good peg - it looks as if it could do well but never does.

Made up 3 lines for pole and a feeder for further out. The feeder was not playing ball after 90 minutes so put that down and fished my margins this wasn't any better but could see shed loads of fish moving [Ed - yes I count 6 in your photo!] but they were not interested. Stuck with it in hopes of a stray and, by 1 pm, I was rewarded with a 3lb carp. Oddly enough there were no rudd or roach not even a micro perch so carried on with maggots and got a second carp a bit bigger and, by knocking off time, I had seven in total for 33lbs 3oz.

Section wins were sec 1 Peter Green 24lbs 5oz, sec 2 Brian Newman with 34lbs 2oz, sec 3 Rob Calderón with 70lbs 2oz and sec 4 Yorkie with 34lbs 3oz.

Bishop's Stortford 1st with 75 points to Saffron Walden's 61 points. A big thanks to Rob for weighing in the high bank, pic is my peg 13.