I MANAGED to put in another night session recently on the Old Lake, at Bury Hill, and although I did not catch any record breakers I did put seven small doubles on the bank including a hard fighting 11lbs ghost carp, which was in mint condition.

Shortly after casting out my two KG1 boilies lines I did not have to wait too long before I was into my first fish and that set the tone for the rest of the session before I packed up in the early hours of morning to do a one to one feeder lesson.

The lake was flat calm with no wind at all and at times when the sun came out the bream were in a really finicky mood.

Lesson wise is was spot on as I could show my pupil how to tempt bites by switching baits and rigs to keep the fish coming and with accurate casting it tuned out to be a superb lesson with plenty of tips and techniques passed on.

While others around the lake seemed to be struggling we managed to put 24 nice bream on the bank during the five hours and with two more lessons booked for later in the season I assume I am doing something right.

Last Sunday I was fishing a match at Framfield Fishery for the first time in about two seasons, which felt strange as at one time I was a regular at the fishery competing in individual match leagues and the odd open event.

With two matches being held on Spring Lake, I knew from past experience that this was going to be a tougher than normal match and the big weights were probably not going to show.

I drew peg 66 which positioned me about halfway down the far bank not really where I wanted to be as I was hoping for pegs 63 to 58, however, with a bit of margin cover to my left I was hoping of a few fish or two from that part of my peg.

With the lake being under more pressure than normal I decided to set up a small cage feeder to cast over to the far bank island which runs basically right down the middle splitting the lake into two halves, as I had a feeling the fish would back off looking for a bit of cover.

At the start of the five-hour match I fed my margin line before casting a my Special G baited feeder over to the island and with an 8mm skretting carp pellet on a 16's lasso hook rig.

Twenty minutes passed with three-minute casts intervals with just the odd liner to show for my early efforts and with anglers around me catching on their margin line.

I decided to do the same and join them, but with just one fish after an hour I feared the inside line was going to be a tough and less fruitful than I had first hoped for.

With bubbles and a bit of fizzing developing it was time to go back over and when I greeted with virtually an instant pull round it was time to start bagging and catch up.

While all I could see were netting the odd fish I was enjoying myself, bagging 47 carp in the last four hours and although my fish were not all that big I was at least adding to my total on a regular basis.

Charlie Chawner, on peg 58, caught well on his top two with paste to win the match with a decent 176lbs with 95lbs being the next best weight.

My weight of just over 80lbs took third place, which I have to be pleased with, as I was well clear on my part of the lake and the decision to set up my feeder rod paid dividends while others just plodded on struggling with their margin pole line. Tight Lines.

Russ Evans is Mirror Sport's angling columnist