Float Only Series, Round 1, Viaduct. 27th May 2018

I managed to get on to this series as a late replacement, though I will miss the last round of the series due to a holiday, so Steve Tucker will be fishing that one for me (as it was his place I took, lol).

I arrived through a barrage of rain that had passed over the region, thankfully after this early morning spell it stayed dry throughout the day and quite warm
A bit of a chat and trolley loaded and into the tin, we have 40 on this series son would be on Cary and Campbell, I wanted Campbell, ideally around 112 to 115 or anywhere on the far side. I cant even remember the last match I fished on the lake other than their Xmas match,
My plans were to fish for silvers each round as I don't feel I can compete overall in the league given the quality of anglers fishing it.
I drew peg 119, I didn't really fancy it to be honest, it can be brilliant but it blows more cold than hot.
For company I had Clayton Hudson on peg 118, which is a better peg with a good edge (after some tree tidying) and is set slightly further out into the lake than those either side of him.
Behind me I had the most consistent angler, probably most successful too, Craig 'Trig' Edmunds, he was on Cary 81 and his peg was awash with fish, the two words 'writing' and 'wall' sprung to mind.
I also had Ryan Shipp in front of me on peg 121, I fancied that peg to do well and another good angler on it.

Peg 199, Viaduct Campbell.

I assembled a waggler, this would be fished to the end bank, never gave a bite.
I assembled a token silvers rig as when I got to my peg I didn't expect them to play ball generally speaking, again no fish on this.(DT F1/Silvers in 0.3g)
A shallow rig for mugging and fishing properly shallow. (DT Pinger in 0.1)
An edge rig for along the end bank and down to my left. (DT RBS Margin 0.3g), 2 lost foulers and 1 hook pull.
A deck pellet rig for 14m in front slightly right in the reflection of a tree. (DT RBS in 0.4g). No fish, just a few liners/foulers lost.
Lastly a meat rig for 6m in front. (DT RBS in 0.3g)

Bait was groundbait, 8mm pellets, 6mm pellets and some hemp and 8mm meat. Some casters and dead maggots too.

I won't bore you with the details, simply because there is not much to tell, as generally it fished slow on Campbell with the odd exception.
I started short on meat and had a 12lber after 10 minutes or so, then I promptly lost 4, a mixture of foul hookers and dodgy hooklength I should have changed.
I managed another before the hour mark, a fish of 8lb or so on the meat. My third carp came after 90 minutes. Around 9lb I guessed.

A couple looks on the silvers line I had fed at 13, no bites despite fizzing. A couple looks along the end bank gave nothing and the pellet rig on the deck gave me a couple indications and a couple lost foul hookers. Looking around nobody on my lake was catching much, Ryan had maybe 5 or so nice skimmers and 1 carp, the 3 guys on the far bank all had maybe 2 or 3 fish each and Clayton on 118 only had 1.
Behind me on Cary it looked like Trig was doing well as was Chris Davis on peg 85.

Fast forward 2hrs and I managed a couple more carp, these came shallow over heavy feeding, but I think they were ones just passing by as I wasn't getting any fizzing or liners etc, the elastic would just tear out.
Meanwhile Clayton had a run of 3 fish down his edge and 4 shallow long, sort of fishing blind as he wasn't getting mush in the way of indications, it would be nothing then bingo, a couple fish, then repeat.

One more fish for the rest of the match, that was a skimmer on the meat line with 90 minutes left in the match. So I went the last 2.5hrs without landing a carp, I did lose a few foul hookers and I think a couple were hook pulls when hooked properly, but cannot be sure.

The all out was called and I was sure I would be last in section, 5 carp and a small skimmer. Clayton's 2 little spells he had mid match looked to be the difference there, perhaps 80lb for him and Ryan on 121 had been consistent all day, I had him down for 100lb. The 3 others in my section were Tony Rixon, he was admitting to 160lb from 116 (possibly best peg in the section), but had started slow-ish before finding fish down his edge.
The angler opposite me looked to have had more for sure, could not be to sure on weights, 60lb+ I was convinced.

I packed up and waited for the scales. Trig was admitting to 300lb and Chris Davis 170lb on Cary, not much else was being admitted to on there.
When the scales got to me it was Mark Wynne who had 197lb and was winning, Ryan had just topped the 100lb mark with 107lb including 18lb of silvers. Peg 123 had 46lb to my surprise.
My 5 carp and 6oz skimmer was good enough for 53lb 11oz.
Clayton had perhaps 12 carp for his total of 81lb 15oz so those 2 spells defo helped.
Next up was Tony, he amassed 171lb and ounces to win the 5 peg section and perhaps 4th on the day.
So I wasn't last in the section, yay. But those few lost fish may have cost me a point, but then Clayton had lost a couple so I am not even sure if I would have.
Trig won the match with 316lb and top silvers was 'only' 27lb to Paul Faires on Campbell. But generally the fishing was patchy, as it has been in most places recently, spawning, high temps, thundery weather and a bit more pressure from anglers wont have helped, so lets hope they settle down.

For full results sheets read Tony's Blog.....Here you go.

So as predicted a tough start to the series, but such is life, hopefully my dropper.

Next up for me is a the next round up at Acorn, again it hasn't been a good series for me, poor draws costing me at the moment for sure, but I shall go and try for sure.

Until then take care.
Lee

Acorn and Summerhayes, 19th and 20th May 2018

I will start with Saturday's blog, well, little write up. Started like normal with an early arrival and a walk around the lakes plus a natter with a few guys before the draw. Well I picked peg 22, the left hand side of the back bank bridge. Reasonably happy I guess. But it hasn't been great in this series.

Got to my peg and plenty of scum on the water and a few fish present so things looked optimistic.
3 rigs, 2 for shallow (band and no band) using DT pingers and one for on the deck in a couple areas of my peg in the deeper water.
It didn't take long to set up as my shallow rigs were already on the topkits. I had micros, expanders and 6mm pellets on the side tray plus some corn, casters and groundbait.
I had Mark Bromsgrove down to my left and Lewis Walker to my right on the other side of the bridge.

Peg 22 Acorn

Before the all in the wind picked up and my scum started to drift away to my left and the fish that were present seemed to follow, bugger. I hardly saw a fish in my peg for the most of the day and despite my efforts I never had a fish shallow and not a fish landed (did foul hook a couple) from the far side.
It was actually almost 4hrs into the match that I had my 1st carp over 6oz, that came down the edge to my left where the carp had only just started to come in but were spooky.
I had 2 from the deep water on expander and a couple more from the edge in the last half hour.
It was a dull day and it would have been a DNW could I have got my car out sensibly without causing hassle. During the match, Lewis had struggled to his last 2hrs and his neighbour, Bob Gullick similarly. Mark on peg 24 had caught most of the day from his peg with just the odd quiet spell.

Really it was only Paul Nichols on peg 5 who caught all day and won with 160lb+.
My weight was last in section but not last in weight on the day, 21lb something was my total, there was also 4 dnw's including Gabe on peg 40 where I never bothered to weigh in the last round.

2 more rounds to go, so again fingers crossed that I have a few fish to catch in at least one of those matches.

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Sunday saw me head to Summerhayes, Pawlett did have a match on the 2 canals at Shiplate but expected almost every peg to be in and a struggle for most given the pressure and the warm conditions so I never booked in. Alas peg 1 on Westpool won the match, Mike Davis with 135lb, Nick Selway was 2nd with 85lb from peg 6 on the same, then it dropped off I believe.

Anyways back to Summerhayes, 13 or so fishing so after a cuppa and a chat the draw was made, only 2 balls left in the basket, one for me and one for Jamie Rich who was fresh from his 3 weeks in Thailand....but he wasn't tanned....hmmmm!! I told him to give a ball to me, I had peg 20, he had peg 17 so both reasonably happy. For company I had Roy Hughes on the flyer of an end peg (p23) with the wind pushing in there and on my left I had a guy called Steve on peg 18. Chris Boulton had turned up to fish and drew peg 2, I really fancied that peg to win and told him so, it looked full of fish and is a pretty decent peg at any time.

Peg 20 Sellicks, Summerhayes

No rigs for silvers in this match, so my casters stayed in the bag and I didn't even bring any groundbait, I needed to catch a few carp just to convince myself I can occasionally do that.
My rigs were a couple shallow rigs, well the same 2 shallow rigs as Saturday, the banded one would do for tight over to the island at 13m and the un-banded one for down my left margin.
Lastly I had a meat rig for 2+2 off to my left, this rig was also used at the same distance feeding and using 6mm expander pellets, sort of a half hearted attempt incase the skimmers arrived.
My usual floats of DT Pingers for the shallow rigs and an RBS Margin for the meat rig.
My baits were meat, expander and 6mm pellets and some hemp. I also had some dead maggots to get rid of.

At the all in I started short for 15 minutes after depositing a full cup of hemp and meat off to my left and half a pot of expanders in front.
I only a liner to show over the meat line so I went across and was pleased to have a spurt of 8 or 9 carp in the next hour, but the problem was they were only little 1lb fish, or that is what I clicked. Roy was getting better fish on his paste rig and Jamie Rich was targeting silvers as usual and was getting one or 2 small fish.
Steve had started slowly and had a skimmer and 1 or 2 carp.
Things then began to get funny as the day got warmer the fish began to be a pain and whatever I tried to do I couldn't get them to settle and was suffering foul hookers and line bites. I did mug a couple, but even that was hard work.
I gave the far side a rest and tried the expander and never had a bite, I tried the meat line, I never had a bite, then the edge to my left, no bites....hmmm. I spent the next 90 minutes to 2 hrs trying to get a few fish in the net, but failed.
Steve was now down his left edge and was getting reasonable action from the carp and had also had a 2lb+ eel. Roy was still catching a few but missing lots of bites. He also been broken on a fish and last the elastic and rig.

With 2.5hrs to go I had just about double figures showing on my clicker and was beginning to think about spending a couple hours fishing caster, but I couldn't be arsed to get off my box.
Luckily I managed a run of fish shallow across, I had 8 or 9 more between 1 and 3lb which moved me up to around 30lb. Then I had a fish down my left edge which went under the empty pallet and out between the from legs of it, half expected the rig to snap I held my pole still and the fish waddled back and I duly netted it, lucky there.
I then tried back across but things were quiet so I gambled on my meat line, upping the feed a bit. This seemed to work as another spurt of fish, which were a little bigger on average made their way to the keepnets. I had been clicking then as 2 and 3lb but was unsure as it seemed a few felt heavier than their size, spawn methinks. So when my 1st net reached 40lb I started to use my 2nd net which coincided with the last hour or so.
Staying on the meat I began to foul hook a few in amongst the ones landed so I picked the margin rig and tried it over that line and the elastic was ripped out, ah shallow fish, but then I had ripple which obviously had helped as when it went flat calm I could only catch on the deck, once the ripple returned I caught shallow.
I also managed a couple fish from the edge but that was only as a rest from the 'catching' line..
I had also tried the expander line, one carp from there only. But I also tried expander shallow when I was missing bites on meat, this proved ok.

So the last hour was spent over the meat line up and down in the water and swapping between meat and expander on the hook and feeding a little every few seconds. I managed, I think, 10 carp in this time and my clicker showed 26lb, I had been clicking mostly 2lb for these fish. I was actually enjoying myself as the all out was called. My clickers showed 66lb though I did expect it to be a touch more.
Roy and Steve had beaten me I though and Adie said Chris on peg 2 had done really well.

I packed up and waited for the scales to arrive. I caught up with them at Jim Jenner who had been catching well down his edges and he put 91lb on the board which was the 3rd best weight to this point. Chris Boulton had 141lb from peg 2 and Mark Lehay 95lb from peg 4.
Wayne Michael had 26lb from peg 15 before Jamie Rich had 11lb 2oz of silvers, he guessed he had 7lb. You can read his blog here....
Steve was next on peg 18 and he totalled out at 89lb 14oz, I was sure I never had that. Certain. Well my 1st net (the 5hr 40lb one) weighed 66lb and ounces, while my last hour net (26lb clicked) topped 52lb. My total gave me 111lb 4oz. I was slightly embarrassed and felt like a tit to be fair. Those fish must have weighed 1lb or so heavier each than I thought.
Next up was Roy, now I was sure he had more than me as at times he was getting 3 to my 1. But he totalled 103lb 5oz which surprised me. That put me 2nd on the day and a bit of money for my efforts.
Next time I visit I may well fish for the carp....just for a change methinks.

Results:
1st - peg 2, Chris Boulton. 141lb 14oz
2nd - peg 20, Lee Williams. 111lb 4oz
3rd - peg 23, Roy Hughes. 103lb 5oz

1st Silvers - peg 17, Jamie Rich. 11lb 2oz
2nd Silvers - peg 7, Rob Birch. 6lb 11oz

Weights....

So it was nice to get a few on the meat and I learnt a couple things going forward, which is what I try to take each time I go.
Next up is Sunday at Viaduct I believe for the 1st round of Tony's Float Only Series which I got on thanks to Steve Tucker.

Until then, take care.
Lee

Tony's Short Pole Series, Todber Manor Hillview Lake, 13-5-18

I managed to get onto this match, but only as cover for this round, covering for Emma Drysdale again. 27 fishing so pretty much every peg was in, a few are close-ish together but to be fair the fishery has decently spaced comfy pegs.
Shawn Kittridge followed me down from Bridgwater and we arrived in plenty of time for the 9:30 draw. A few familiar face and a couple of ones I have not met before, but a bit of a chat and the draw was underway.
Defo a few pegs I didn't fancy, 50, 51 and 52 plus 34 round to 37 didn't tickle my fancy, those I liked the look of given conditions were 53, 43 and 44 as they had the wind pushing into them and no doubt these small carp would have followed that and the 'grub' it pushes along too. 52 looked nice and the corners of the spit, 48 and 49 are pretty good and consistent pegs.
Anyways, I drew peg 51, yes it had a little ripple but being down a leg I didn't really fancy it, I had Tony Rixon on my left and another chap on my right (sorry, forgot the name). I didn't fancy any of us to get in the top 3 of the 9 peg section. Drawbag Bobby Gullick drew peg 53 and I expected him to do well from a peg which blows cold more than it does hot after the winter. But there were plenty of signs and sound of fish in his peg and he can catch fish.

A short walk from the car and kit sorted, bait prepped.
I had a few pints of casters for the silvers, some groundbait for these too and the edges.
Some 6mm and 8mm pellets, some corn and some 8mm meat.
As we only fish topkit plus 3 sections for this match I decided on a pellet line at the max distance in front both up and down in the water (DT Pinger and DT RBS floats respectively).
A silvers rig for topkit plus 1 section downwind where I would feed small helpings of groundbait and caster initially, float was a DT F1/Silvers in 0.3g. A meat line for the same distance to my left slightly upwind using an RBS Margin float.
Lastly I set up an edge rig, but other than one look, I didn't really try it as no signs of fish came and the edges on this bank are pretty short.

Peg 51 Todber Manor Hillview Lake

On the whistle I fed the long pellet line with 1/2 a cup of 6mm pellets and the meat line with the same of mostly meat and odd piece of corn. A decent couple of balls of groundbait went in on the silvers line.
I began on the meat and in the initial half hour or so I had an F1 and a little carp, but behind me and Bob down on 53 had began a whole lot better. The 3 of us in a row, well were not doing much.
A switch to the silvers rig for a while saw the odd roach and perch plus the occasional 4oz skimmer and micro tench netted but even that was not busy enough so I began to throw casters over that line coupled with the odd ball of groundbait.

Moving on and I knew that unless the big fish rocked up, which they never have for me here, it was going to be an up hill struggle, given I was trying to get points for the series for Emma I knew I needed to get a few carp caught so found my time split at least 60/40 in favour of the carp, which I felt may cost me in the silvers pool.
I had a look out on the pellet line where I had been pinging 6mm pellets and I missed a couple bites both on the deck and shallow, only losing a foul hooker.
Back on the meat and a few small tench and 1 small carp indicated that there were not enough fish in front of me.
The chap to my rightt was struggling and only had a couple of carp, Tony was fairing a but better but was also struggling along in comparison to everyone else we could see. Tony was fishing 8mm pellets over 6mm feed but was suffering with liners and foulers, he even switched to a toss pot to feed, which seemed to help.

As we approached the last 2 hours I had spent more time fishing for the carp than silvers, but when I had fished for the silver I would have a few roach and small skimmers but they would drift off quickly and need resting for 20 minutes or so before repeating but there wasn't much in the form of quality. I think I had 10lb of these fish before I had a 3lb skimmer from the meat line, but I figured that at least one or two guys would have caught the proper skimmers and bream well somewhere on the lake, so pretty much the last 120 minutes was spent fishing for carp, which really wasn't eventful. I had stopped fishing with pellet on the long line and had switched to toss pot feeding a mix of 6mm pellets and meat, this worked to some extent as I did catch 3 or 4 fish, better fish of maybe 2.5lb each rather than the 1lbers I was catching previous.
The short meat line was giving me more small tench than carp.

The chap to my right had landed a few carp doing a similar thing while Tony had started to catch reasonably well during this spell. Further along each side, Bob on 53 was doing great and I reckoned he would be close to 100lb if he carried on while Jason Radford on hot peg 49 was getting some fish including a big double figured carp, a decent bream and a nice tench. So really in our section I was expecting Tony, me and the chap on 52 to fill the last 3 spots in the section which thankfully didn't include Bob as it ran from peg 44 to 52, but behind me those pegs had done a lot better than us it seemed.

At the all out I guessed Tony had 50lb, Jason on 49 maybe 60lb, my carp had clicked 22lb and I thought I had 17lb or so of silvers and the chap to my right possibly 25lb. Tony did say he thought he had less than me, no chance of that really.
I packed up and got my kit in the car before mingling during the later stages of the weigh in. Most had found it hard going (for the fishery and it's usual standards).
When the scales got to me there was a 99-15 net and Bob had 100lb+. Peg 52 had 22lb+.
My carp went slightly over my 22lb at 23-01, which Mr Rixon believed I had more than... My silvers weighed 22-10 which was more than my guesstimate. My total was 45-11.
Tony had 52lb 9oz before Jason had 56lb+ before the weights from those pegs behind us had 70lb, 80lb, 88lb weights in them, as expected. I ended up beating 2 in the section, sorry Emma.
Further around the lake Mike Nicholls took top silvers with 24lb 10oz, so I missed out on taking those spoils by trying to catch carp for too long, or was it I spent too long fishing for silvers?
I did pick up the 2nd in silvers envelope so something in my back pocket is always welcome.
The results and weigh sheets can be found here...Silverfox or here...Mr Rixon's Blog.

I really like the fishery, as I have said on other occasions, just wish it was 40 minutes closer.
Next weekend I have the next round of the Acorn Saturday Series but I am not fishing Shiplate with Pawlett on the 2 canal lakes as when all 15 pegs on each are taken it generally doesn't fish as well, so I may have a day off or try and get on somewhere else.

Until then, have fun and enjoy the sun.
Lee

Acorn and Avalon.... 5th and 6th May 2018

So this last weekend......not much to write home about really, the Saturday saw me back up at Acorn for the 3rd round of the Saturday Series, which I have no chance of framing after two second last in sections. The weather was baking, which was nice.

I arrived in loads of time, dipped nets etc and then got into the draw, I pulled out peg 40, which I have had a few times, but I was neither happy or sad with this draw, I thought I would get a few but with the weather now rather hot the fishies may have other plans. Well the silvers were spawning.

Peg 40, Paddock Lake, Acorn

I set up the usual array of rigs and set about trying to catch a few, I did hope for a few shallow on casters, but other than a single roach I never had a bite on that, I also had nothing down either edge I did have about 10lb of silvers down the middle on caster on the deck. I had to wait nearly 4 hours for my 1st carp, on 6mm pellets right across, I had 3 in quick time and fouled a couple, but it died a death (not that it actually been alive), and with Matt Roden on p38 and Tom Thick (covering for Bobby G) on peg 33 (?) by the bridge doing really well (Tom won the day with just shy of 195lb) I packed up with at least 90 minutes to spare and decided that the sofa would be a better place to be.

I don't know the full results but Tom Thick won and Gabe Skarba was on peg 3 had a run of margin fish and I think he was 2nd on the day.
Back again in a couple weeks for round 4, hoping to at least draw on some fish then.....

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Sunday saw 33 of us on the banks of Avalon, I haven't fished there for probably 16 months at least.
A bit of banter, pools paid, another baking hot day and a re-draw....1st time I had p29, 2nd time I was on 19. Another vanilla peg and I wasn't really happy with it as I was wanting to fish for silvers and would have liked somewhere between 6 and 13 perhaps or from 27 to 36. But you can never be sure of where the framers will come from on this lake which is great.

Avalon peg 19

Off to my peg and I had on flyer peg 20, Steve Fouracre, he should be good for a few fish to the 'semi-gap' in the island (top left of my photo), he had his brother Eric next to him on 21. I had Lewis Hembury and Rob Dodd to my right.
I set up a few bits and bobs, a shallow waggler and a small feeder which I couldn't get onto the shelf due to island foliage, but worth having set up.
A depth pellet rig using a 0.8g DT RBS float this was for 16m in front, also a DT Pinger for shallow pellets over the same spot.
A silvers rig for 13, slightly left using various baits over groundbait, but had nowt here so nothing more on that.
I also set up a meat rig for just off empty peg 18, but never had a bite there either.

On the all in I fed the spots and started on the waggler, no bites for 20 minutes then I snagged up and lost the lot......chucked the feeder out while I re-set up the float. 10 minutes later I had a small pull on the feeder and a 2.5lb carp was soon in my keepnet, that was my only bite on the feeder all day, but then I did lose the whole lot and couldn't be arsed to re-tackle that. I also lost another waggler set up to the squirrels....but I did assemble that again.

So fast forward a couple hours and my keepnet consisted of 1 carp and a single roach which took a 6mm pellet shallow. Steve had maybe 60lb but from what I could see it wasn't prolific.
I soon managed to mug a nice 5lb ghostie on the waggler and then a 8lb common was mugged on the pole.
I lost a couple more fish, one hooked while fishing shallow with feed, the 2nd was a proper decent fish that acted like a dolphin as it made it's bid for freedom, which I gained along with a float etc.....

I could go on with how I managed to bang out a dozen more 8lb fish, but it would be a lie. I did manage to mug a few more, ended with 7 in total I think, on both the pole and waggler and I actually wished the match finished 20 minutes later than it did as I could see the carp better and they were actually coming in close enough to target them. I actually shallowed up my 0.8g depth rig to give me an extra 4.5ft of line so I could reach further out, this defo helped me once or twice.
At the end of the match Steve had around 86lb (I was clicking his fish to occupy me), Eric had around 50lb I guessed while Lewis had 5 carp including a lump that took him an age to get in and weighed over 16lb, Rob had 10lb of silvers and a couple carp.
Across the other side Mark Sweeting on peg 30 had done really well and Steve said he had more that him, I couldn't see Mark, but could hear the splashing of fish being netted. A few others said they had caught ok but Ziggy had 100lb+.
The silvers hadn't fed at my end, Eric had 1 tench on the tip and bumped a couple small skimmers on the pole, I had 1 skimmer shallow foul hooked and 1 roach.

The weigh in was well under way and I was rather warm, there was a fair few reddened bodies.
I had all packed up when I caught up with the scales, my clicker showed 34lb but I did not click at least my last fish, maybe my last 2. Both were pushing 10lb each.
A look at the sheet saw Ziggy on 100lb+ and Mark had 98lb and there was a couple 30s and Vic had 59lb.
I saw Mark Bellringer put 60lb on the scales from p22, Eric then had 49lb. Steve's total was 88lb 5oz, so I clicked well....haha. Next was me and it actually took 2 weighs and my 1-11 of silvers plus carp gave me a surprising 57lb 3oz.
Lewis had 46lb and then we had Shawn Kittridge have mid 40's, Keith Clapp a 71lb+ net from peg 7.  Jamie Cook was his accurate self with his guess and was less than 2lb out with his total and he had 79lb
Pierce had 17lb of silvers to take that money. Chris Higgs had 60-something.

So despite it not being a great day the chance to mug a few fish was ok, but the fish were defo easier to spot further out and closer to the other bank for sure. They didn't seem intent on heading to our side. But Sunday was a good day locally for mugging fish....look at Viaduct's weights...200lb was 6th and nearly 400lb needed to win both Sunday and Monday's matches, the best weights were mostly mugged fish. Some good mugging was had at Todber as well.

Results:
1st, Ziggy Slowinski, 104-08 from end peg 44 on pellet waggler
2nd, Mark Sweeting, pellet waggler from peg 30
3rd, Steve Fouracre, mostly feeder caught from peg 20
Silvers
1st, Pierce Furlong, short pole skimmer and decent bream, peg 5.

Weigh Sheets

Next up for me is Sunday at Todber as cover for Emma Drysdale in the Short Pole Series of Tony Rixon's. Fingers crossed for a few bites. As for Saturday....we shall see, but prob family day.

Until then, enjoy the rest of the week.
Lee