28/08/2026
Last Sunday was the 4th round of the Somerset teams of four. I was back at Dunwear while Lee, Dan and young Harrison Dunster were on the KSD (Parchey up, Bradney down and Bradney up).
Again I wanted Coombes or Marshes to get amongst the better weights, potentially π€.
I was drawn Lookout, not too displeased as it is decent if the tench and eels don't feed on other pegs. But there's no awful pegs and it's about figuring out what to do as there's many many options in most of the pegs.
I set up 3 rigs, two DT Floats Nevis patterns for anything that comes along in two different depths at 14m. The third remained unused was a Carbon Slim by DT Floats, this was for big baits and big fish.
Bait was the usual maggots, caster, worm and some corn. Groundbait was Bait-Tech Pro Natural Sweet Fishmeal with a bit of Bait-Tech The Juice ground. Only 3.5kg mixed up this week.
The match began very slowly with not much seemingly getting caught, though Gappy on Phipps's caught some smaller fish from the start, Kev Rawles on Riviera hooked, played and lost a decent carp plus he had a few bits. Those two were not in my section but we're in my eyeline.
It took me a while to catch, but a few roach, pommies and baby skimmers were being added to the keepnet. Russell Hilton called me to see how things were going, and he says in the same situation as myself and my neighbour Dickie Bull (on Helicopter).
So I plodded away putting a few smaller silvers in the keepnet, but I did pick up 8 or so better stamp skimmers around the 12oz - 1lb mark throughout the second half of the match. I did bump a couple decent fish, probably better skimmers but doesn't everyone?
At the all-out I reckoned on 3-4kg (6-8lb). Gappy had a tench, Kev lost another better fish and Dickie struggled.
I went and saw Russ, he admitted to a big bream and 4kg in total.
So the weigh-in. Les Braunton and Neil Purchase were on duty, Les said he had 4kg, Neil had 6 fish from Magic Tree and Slopey respectively.
Russ weighed in first with 5kg dead, Dickie had 1.75kg, I then had 25g more than Russ. Neil's 6 fish won the section as they averaged a kilo each. Les had 4.050kg.
So second in section for me. Happy enough.
The other section was won by Smiler on the same peg as last round, Coombes, with 9kg. Monkey was on Marshes and had 6.6kg. They were 2nd and 3rd in the whole match, which was won by the lovely Mark Vigar with 10kg.
On the day, our team did pants but somehow never finished last with a meagre 8 points. Somerset Angling won the day with 19 points from a maximum of 20. Well done π£π.
The last two rounds are on the KSD, then Chard Reservoir.
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Since then I have had a pleasure session on Slopey at Dunwear after work on Tuesday. I caught 3 tench just to annoy Mrs W., a couple quality skimmers and some perch/rudd/roach. Only fished worm and corn on the hook over 6mm pellets.
Wednesday I fished the Sedges open, 30 fished so all of Brick and 31-40 on Tile were in.
I wanted to fish for silvers and middle of the lake on Brick was hoped for. Never near it, peg 20. Can be great, but not often enough.
A couple rigs for carp and a silvers rig for 14m in front.
I had one 12/13lb carp and around 18lb of silvers, so chucked back as did my neighbour on 19, he had two bites all day from 2 baby skimmers.
The match was won with 170lb or so from peg 17 fishing the pva bag over heavy feed π«€. Then a couple decent weights from Tile.
Matt Rowe won the silvers with 34lb from peg 13 (I think) ahead of Alex Kerr on peg 16 (29lb) and Ron Stark (21lb, peg 14).
Yesterday I fished Bridgwater Docks, waggler and 6&8mm pellets only. Fished two hours and had a tench and a few silvers π£π.
Today I took a look at going on the KSD, it looked crap tbh, a few eels dead floating in the edges and not a fish plipping on the surface. So back to the docks for 3hrs
I had a couple tench, a bream and a bite a chuck from roach, rudd, pommies and little skimmers. Maggot at first (til I got bored) over Bait-Tech Pro Natural River Extra. I opened some corn after an hour or so and caught the tincas and some better skimmer etc. I fished a 6m whip. Enjoyed it despite the odd shower π. Finished with around 30lb.
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Not sure where I am fishing this weekend, looking at the weather it won't be tomorrow, Sunday and Monday look ok.