Note this was fished as an individual match - the pairs match has been moved

Phil's day

Hi all, the Weds club fished its club lake at Malcolm Barker. It was going to be a very hot and bright day not good for the MB Lake so I expected it to be slow. I drew peg 17 but did a change for peg 23 to allow for an old un - didn't do myself any favours as its a very open peg with little or no features. I made up two pole lines: one for the margins and one at 10 meters. Just a small amount of cupping in as I am fishing for roach and skimmers. Started off with my 10 meter line on corn and pellet with no effect so it boiled down to punch bread. After an hour I was picking up the odd skimmer of an oz range but always with the hope something a little bigger will come my way. I could see the anglers opposite me were catching so assume they were all doing well. I finally got my bonus fish at about 3pm a small tench of 1lb. I finally ended the match with 3lb 9oz

1st Jeff Pearson with 14lbs, 2nd Fred Hunt with 12lbs 8oz, 3rd Peter Green with 4lbs 11oz and 4th Phil Whitmill with 3lbs 9oz