Rob's day

Hi all

At Hall Farm today with a good turnout of 15. Warm day with the prospect of showers and a moderate wind blowing towards the car park. Luckily, I drew peg 26 – always some fish there and helped with the wind coming into the corner.

Started on the feeder towards the reeds and had a couple of early small carp. Not quick but the tip went round a couple more times before I went onto the pole at 10 meters where I had been feeding hard pellets. Had one carp then no more bites so alternated between the feeder and pole for next couple of hours picking up a few fish. Halfway through had a good run on the pole including a couple of good carp for Halls at around 7-8lb each.

The promised showers then came and didn’t seem to help things – tried down the margins where I expected to catch on paste, but apart from one fish on the drop no bites.

Could only see the other bank, but Ray on peg 1 seemed to be having a good finish, looked to be quiet elsewhere. Wasn’t sure what was caught on my bank but apparently John Carter on golden peg 22 had a good run in the margins after the rain – Gary also catching a few from 20. The pegs up the far end struggling today on both banks – the majority of the fish up the shallower end.

Finished by catching a couple on the tip in the left margin – nothing today from my right.

At the weigh in the low bank was won by Birthday Boy Ray on peg 1 with 46lbs 10oz, Phil second from peg 6 and third Peter Green from 4 which again included a good bag of silvers. On the high bank my 75lbs 5oz was just enough to beat Johns 62lb 13oz and Garys 36lbs 5oz. Many thanks to Gary today for doing all the hard work at the weigh in. Today's picture is Jeff with just under 12lbs of silvers for his weight.