Another go at the silvers on Spring today, it started badly and didn't improve much, I got as far as Pensford when I realised I had forgetten my ice breaker, the nose to tail commuter traffic heading towards Bristol meant there was no chance of turning back to get it.
Arriving at the fishery, an inspection of the lakes revealed a fairly thick lid, so borrowing an ice breker was imperative. Getting my kit out of the van I went to the front set and picked up my flask, it felt strangely light, then I realised the lid hadn't been on properly and the entire contents were now soaked into the passenger seat..... maybe that should have been an omen to forget it for the day.
Peg 4 was my home for the day, with once again on the next peg, Andy Power on 5 and Scott Puddy on 3. Andy kindly cut out my peg, as I have a knackerd shoulder and chucking the ice breaker isn't easy. Cupped a couple of alls of GB on the all in and started just short on caster, spent about 20 minutes without a bite before swapping to a Chianti set 6" off bottom, this brought bites, but only from small roach. This set the scene for the rest of the day, I kept looking back on the deck for better skimmers, but as soon as I dropped back on the deck, the bites dried up.
Scott to my right had a few skimmers, but Andy was in the same boat as me, so maybe there weren't any skimmers in the area. Ended up chucking back 6 or 7lb roach, shame I didn't have 20lb of skimmers to go with them......
1: Des Shipp 29.05 peg 25
2: Scott Russell 18.09 peg 10
3: Scott Puddy 17.09 peg 3
4: Callum Dicks 17.07 peg16
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