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well this is getting a habit this commercial fishing  this weekend saw the IVAN MARKS FESTIVAL on the glebe a venue that is always at the top of my favourite list
it's got everything and is well maintained by the lads on day one Saturday i couldn't fish something to do with the weather and everyone wanting beer,salad barbecue and ice creams still you can't knock it it might rain for the rest of the summer
still i made a few phone calls to see how it was fishing  it was terrible most of the fish were spawning in the reeds and the rest just swimming around  the odd pegs had got a few feeding fish but most resorted to mugging fish as they past through the swim  i never heard about mugging fish before so Saturday night i got all the gear and no idea of what i was going to do or fish i slipped my balaclava in just in case i was going to mug a few as well
woke up nice and early sunday as the shop alarm had gone off at 4.14am another problem that comes with this weather still i was up 
sat down had a bit of breakfast and started getting yet more gear ready
on arrive i had chosen some cool clothes to wear first mistake and was quickly named the best dressed angler on the bank it had started the BANTER and i was 15 love down as soon as i stepped out of the van
i love these matches as you get to see all your old mate young and old have a few coffee's and a chat taking the yellow stream out of the serious anglers that are itching to get fishing
anyway the draw takes place 120 anglers over 8 llakes puts my hand in and pulls out 76 i have no idea where it was or what lake so off i went to get a bit of info :( then roy told me i had drawn endpeg lake 5 sounds good then he said that the day before the match had been won on that lake but the other end and my reeds were full of spawning fish
still what a difference a day makes


what a nice looking peg and not a fish crashing around all the fish seamed to be down the other end but were crashing like mad and it was flat calm

we had a little breeze and hopefully it would get up during the day
then my phone rang sean huggins has just turned up and has drawn next to you with out doubt he is one of the best commercial anglers around and is having a good run at th moment still the banter would be good
ii set up 2 feeder rods and 4 margin rigs i thought if i was going to have any chance to beat Sean I'd got to fish positive even though i'd drawn a better peg sean was quiet happy with his draw
clipped up fiirst cast foul hooked carp one nile to the carp sean 3 carp in the first 15 minutes six in half hour
my second fish broke my landing net handle as it flipped at just the wrong time so that was a quickdash around to one of the lads for a spare at this point i'm thinking why-o-why do i put myself through this sort of fishing
after a litre of water i thought NO it's not going to happen this way today ,the one thing i was getting drawn into was chasing sean ::) ::)as if i was going to pin point my feeder like he was SO AGAIN I HAD TO MADE A DECISSION which would be second nature to the commercial boys
i'd feed the margins and thought thats it thats what i'm going to do well i couldn't buy a bite for the longest time and then out the blue it was a fish a chuke it seamed you'd get three and it went quite for ten minutes and then another three and good fish so i had started to come back BUT again the decissions that are second nature to the experts were going around my head at 80mph what if,should i,mybe if anyway going into the last hour which i needed a good one i got broke and lost two bloody great sean was catching shallow as well
well when the scales arrived sean said i'd beaten him and was saying he'd beat me
i weighed 115lb should of could of a million things went wrong but came away having learnt stacks of sean
sean weighed 117lb just going to show just how good the bloke is
he caught shallow,feeder,pellet waggler and margins
john hall won the day with 28 carp for 284lb :ofishing 16 m shallow



a part of my 115lb and a few more grey hairs

Fookin flyer!

I KNOW THAT 
someone did say its called a endpeg 
but i've never seen one ::) ::) ::) ::)

Whens the book comin out Joff ?

"How to crappity smack up flyers"


Have you bin tangoed an all ?

Good report Joff. If you want to learn how to mug fish then take a trip down here on a Marsh match and get some lessons off of "Mugger Morton"

Whens the book comin out Joff ?

"How to crappity smack up flyers"       ;) 


Have you bin tangoed an all ?      

it was out after blackpools victory dodge

dodge your right i cocked it up for the first half match trying to keep the fish feeding over on the feeder knowing that as soon as go on my margin peg i'l leave the far bank to sean i'm getting there mate just hope i can still get a draw or two it was a nice days fishing though
eye kettleby next week again

Good report Joff.  If you want to learn how to mug fish then take a trip down here on a Marsh match and get some lessons off of "Mugger Morton"

thats is the problem with the glebe they have too many rules as i got told off for turning my rig over

Whens the book comin out Joff ?

"How to crappity smack up flyers"       ;) 


Have you bin tangoed an all ?      

it was out after blackpools victory dodge

dodge your right i cocked it up for the first half match trying to keep the fish feeding over on the feeder knowing that as soon as go on my margin peg i'l leave the far bank to sean  i'm getting there mate just hope i can still get a draw or two it was a nice days fishing though
eye kettleby next week again 

bye the way 39lb came off it the day before

Great reading Joff. What a good looking peg

bye the way39lb came off it the day before

Was the angler on the first day facing the right way ?

he hadn't got the VAN JOFF SENSAS MARGIN FLOATS dodge i had to give sean some mindyou that was to peg his brolly out

peg 5 glebe one 103lb in the margins dodge

I was on peg 3 ...... ITS CRAP !!!!!

well he fished towards three then peg 1 must of had 200 carp on top yesterday he said he could of netted it 

A WAS THE BEST margin line but i mugged a few at 14m

peg 5 glebe one 103lb in the margins dodge

sh!t i was on peg 5 last year Joff.
Got 2 matches on the glebe this summer, you'll be a venue expert by the time they come round, i'll ask for the info nearer the time

NEVER MATE

Joff, its already got a grip of you .

Before you know it, all your lovingly prepared match top 3's will have the number 1's ripped out and be hollow laccy'd up with super thick bungy jumper lazzy, and your groundbait store will only contain crazy bait gold and some bags of pellets .

Sad but true