Sunday 16/07/2023 - Inter Club - Alcove AC and Silver Bream AC - Gall Lake

First for me fishing an inter club match, plus a new venue - Gall Lake situated on junction 14 - M5, so close to home. It's an old well established and therefore considered a natural lake and absolutely beautiful, no rickety platforms just fish off well kept lawns - perfect. Sort of lake we fished back in the day before the commercial over stocked holes in the ground.

Told it's very hard fishing, however, the club has recently stocked 50 bream from 5 lb to 10 lb plus some freebie small fish from the EA. Noticed plenty of carp feeding but told we wouldn't hook any and if we did wouldn't get them out due to size and hugh amount of lily pads.

17 fishing 8 Alcove 9 Silver Bream. We had even pegs. I drew peg 20 far end of the dam wall.

Caught a 5 lb Bream second put in at top set plus three barrels in 9 foot of water. Added 3 lb 2 oz of small silvers loosing two more Bream which were foul hooked due to them being off bottom and me laying the rig out for small silvers. Some Eels were being caught so decided to have a go for them in the last hour only to completely bugger the peg which was to cost me.

Thoroughly enjoyed the day managing to keep bites coming until the last hour. lovey place and great company - lot of old people there though! 😁 Came 5th, 6 oz out of the money, due to my love of Eel fishing.

The match was won by Andy Gabb - SB (pictured) with 3 Bream for 16 lb 10 oz from peg 17.

Alcove 46lbish to silver breams 44lbish. So close, call it a draw, not that it mattered nice to meet some new and old faces. Hopefully be able to fish it again next year.

Shay Gillman having had a look around last week has joined Silver Bream club.

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