Phil's day

Good morning to all, the Weds club fished its monthly interclub match against Abbey Cross at their Taylors Lake. The weather was very windy which made holding a pole very difficult but at times it was manageable. I drew peg 30 not a good peg for me but being the end of summer I had lily pads to fish to instead of open water. Only made one pole line and stuck to it. With a feeder just in case the wind made it impossible to fish the pole. I started cupping in a bit of groundbait with some pellets and hemp and, after 40 odd mins, I started catching small roach and rudd. I tried other baits but kept going back to what I could get a bite on and figured if I can't get a carp I would go for the roach. This went on for most of the day then about 2ish I got an F1 about 4lb which really bumped up my weight. By the end of the day I weighed in 7lbs 6oz . Well done to all on a very difficult day,

1st Alan Sims with 31lbs 10oz, 2nd Martin Adams with 26lbs 13oz (including a carp of 17lbs 7oz), 3rd Phil Whitmill with 7lbs 6oz, 4th Jeff Pearson with 6lbs 9oz and 5th Steve Foster with 5lbs 9oz.

Abbey Cross took the day with 83 points to Bishop's Stortford's 54 points.

The photo today is the view from Peg 52 with John, Steve, Peter and Phil over on the far side.