It has been a strange year, for obvious reasons. In February i made the decision not to renew my carp syndicate due to a number of reasons and decided to go back to match fishing for the year - in hindsight i am glad, the best time on my syndicate is late march to early june, so would have missed that anyway.
However the matches didn't start well once we were allowed to fish them - had a poor result in the first one, dead last in the next two, but it was nice just to get out fishing again. Made up for it this weekend though with a match on Saturday and Sunday, coming 2nd and 1st respectively. Had 38lb 6oz of skimmers and carp on the Sat, and 55lb 6oz of the same on the Sunday from one venue i had never seen before, and the other it has been a few years since i fished there.
I also had a nice day on the river pleasure fishing on the 16th, managing to catch around 35 - 40lb of bream, roach and perch, plus a big eel around 2lb