Lac GEURLEDAN MAY O7

The second day of our break and it is my turn to choose the venue and I have opted for the top of lake Guerledan. This magnificent lake is some 6oo acres I am told and was created by flooding the valley Hydro electric power is generated at the dam end. On arrival we drew for choice of swims , Roger won again and chose the swim furthest from the inlet . Chief drew second and to my surprise chose the middle peg leaving me on the peg nearest the inlet. Roger and the Chief opted for the feeder but I went with the pole again . Plumbing up I had about 3.5 metres at 13 metres out. I chose a 1.5gr jolly to 012 with o1o hooklength . The bottom is fairly flat so I put in 8 stiffish balls laced with caster . Almost immediately I got a response and was catching decent skimmers and hybrids on red maggot. Looking around I could barely see Roger but Keith seemed to be really struggling he also seemed more interested in his new gadget , the camcorder . I was still going steadily, so kept my head down and was enjoying it. When after about two hours Chief said he was switching to the pole I thought I must have got it right when he explained that he felt his swim was better pole fished but that Roger was sacking up on the feeder. Could not get the logic of that but carried on anyway . To add to the skimmers and hybrids, I was now getting some good size roach and the odd bream to 3lbs. The swim began to die a bit so I reballed with another 6. They certainly liked that and I was now going well and I put a good few in the net in the last 1 1/5 hours. I knew I had a goodish weight and had seen off the Chief but how had Roger fared? Well he had sacked up ! weighing in just a fraction short of 50lbs of skimmers , hybrids and bream to 4lbs. Chief ran up the white flag and returned about 20lbs of skimmers while I weighed in 38 lbs. A good day on a venue I rather like, more than 100lbs between us with no prebaiting and no prolonged wait for fish to arrive. Still got to get some coin from Roger the splodger, the crafty old devil is having it too easy. Another day tommorow!