Clevedon v Fry's Sunday 19th February Apex Lake Highbridge

Those people who stayed inside today looking out would have presumed it was a pleasant day - not so if you are fishing a lake half a mile from the Bristol Channel with a cold wind blowing up it all day into your face and you are sat in water nearly up to your knees. I have warmed up now thanks to a large Jamesons.
Not sure how today ended up as an interclub but it did with 13 anglers from Clevedon fishing against 13 from Fry's AC. We end up fishing with Frys a few times a year and the two clubs also do a ticket exchange, they are a good bunch but man do they talk all day and take the p**s out of each other.
Although there had been a frost I was looking forward to the match as I have caught on the venue in cold conditions before but that was mainly pleasure fishing, today would be different due to the majority of the pegs being put in.
Match Secretary Barry explains the pegging before the draw and who is responsible for weighing etc, the majority of us do not have a degree in 'barry speak' so chairman Steve Bonwick gave an alternative version. Fishing would be 10:30 - 16:00. Into the sensas draw bucket and out come peg 24 bugger top end of the lake with not much winter form. The favourable areas were always going to be the wider bottom end of the lake pegs 1-6 or in the 30's.
I get to my peg and to be honest it didn't look too bad, no platform though so had to extend the legs on my box which when leveled meant my feet would be in the water all day.

view from my peg

On 25 I had Bristol Docks ace and Dynamite bait backed Pete Sivell and on 23 was Match Secretary Barry.

Small cage feeder with dead red or pinkie or caster was to be the main method today and I also set up a pole line at 8 meters, no farther out due to the wind, the depth more or less all the way across was about 5 feet. To cut to the chase I had 3 fish all on the feeder for 4lb 5oz, Pete won the section with 6 fish for 5lb 2oz and Barry didn't have a bite. The best weight on the bank directly opposite us was 3lb 2oz.

Overall the match was won in the first 30 mins by Rob Garland (Fry's) with 3 carp on bread, he added a few skimmers for a total weight of 28lb 8oz pictured below.



Second with an all skimmer net was in form Clevedon angler Adie Baker with 20lb 11oz and third was Fry's AC Brian Derrick with a mixed bag for 12lb 15oz.

1st Peg 35 Rob Garland 28 - 08

2nd Peg 5 Adie Baker 20 - 11

3rd Peg 4 Brian Derrick 12 - 15

Total weight Clevedon - 43 - 08

Total weight Frys 41 - 7