Rob's day

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At Barker's today – a good turnout of 14 although that meant a few “dodgy” pegs needed to be put in – although the weed had been professionally treated and Gary had done a good job getting weed out of some pegs a couple of weeks ago, this was going to be an issue for some.

Drew peg 16 in a reasonable area although no lily pads here apart from the ones in the middle opposite peg 17. Set up a waggler rod and a couple of pole rigs for short and long. Fed a couple of balls of groundbait on the long swim and started on the waggler. No bites after 45 mins so went on the long pole line with maggots. Apart from a couple of tiny rudd, no bites – weed being a problem getting hooked up nearly every put in. Nothing close in so tried the waggler shallow for a few small rudd.

Meanwhile Dennis on my left had a few better rudd and perch then a tench around 2 ½ pounds. On the other bank Bill on fancied tench peg 3 had a couple of tench and looked to be leading – adding one more before the end. Decided to fish the long pole line for the rest of the match and a couple of hours to go had a good bite that turned into a small tench around 2lb. No more bites though.

John Carter then landed 3 fish (2 bream and a tench) in quick succession on the feeder in peg5 and Peter next door had landed one bream. At the weigh in it was close between John and Bill – John’s 3 fish going 9lbs 9oz to Bill's 9lb s3oz. Dennis was third with 4lbs 4oz and Peter's fish going 3lbs 15 oz for fourth.

Although the weed is still causing problems to some, better catches today with some nice bream and tench.