Phil's day

Good morning to all, the Weds club held their 2nd of 6 winter league matches on the Backwater next to our club lake Malcolm Barker. It was a good turnout as some don't like river fishing but a good effort was made by all. The river had a very little flow and was gin clear so it was going to be hard. I put in all the pegs that I thought might fish but there was always going to be some not get a bite. I drew peg 7 not a bad peg and my target was 1 to 2 lbs for the day. 3 main baits today it was bread punch and crumb, chopped worm and red maggots. I made two lines down the middle track with punch and over to the barge with chopped worms. Started off cupping out chopped worms and leaving it to draw in the perch while I trotting through on bread punch down the middle track. It took me awhile to find a good run but this produced 4 roach for 10oz then it dropped back to very small roach and dace but still keeping putting fish in the net. After 1 hour it dried up so onto my perch line. Had a run through 3 or 4 times and made some adjustments then got my first perch 10 mins later got another one a bit bigger then two more before it died a death so cupped in more worm and back on the punch. Did this on and on for the whole day and I finished off with a good weight of 3lbs 9oz - a lot of fish but busy all day.

1st Steve Foster with 4lbs 5oz, 2nd Phil Whitmill with 3lbs 9oz, 3rd Jeff Pearson with 3lbs 1oz and 4th John Carter with 1lbs 10oz. Well done to all with no quitters. Pic today from right to left is Jeff, Barry and Rob (soon to be our next Weds captain / organizer when he takes over in January)