Phil's day

Hi all, the Weds club fished its monthly interclub match against Abbey Cross at Taylor's Lake. I drew peg 43 a good peg so not unhappy with that it - it was a bit closed in with lily pads but it's what you draw. I made up only 1 pole line no room for 2 lines at 6 secs I fed to the middle of the pads that gave me 2 to 3 foot in either side of my float. It took an hour to get my first proper bite and lost that fish in the pads so not a good start. Half an hour later got another take this time I managed to get him out of the pads. It was a F1 for 3lb. It went on like this for a bit and, at one stage, it was 3 F1s in the net 4 lost. By 1 ish it went very quiet so went on dead reds and, not long after, started picking up the odd bream. This didn't last long before a bait change was needed so on to soft 4mm pellets. This worked for a while but by 3 pm it died a death but I had done enough to frame.

1st Phil Whitmill with 23lbs 11oz, 2nd Rob Calderón with 21lbs 11oz, 3rd Peter Green with 21lbs 7oz, 4th Barry Cornel with 11lbs 13oz and 5th Jeff Pearson with 9lbs 15oz. Points total Abbey Cross 71 to win Bishop's Stortford's 66. Pic is of Peter Green on the next peg to me