bank holiday monday at landsend

not a bad turnout ,28 decided to show so we had selected pegs over the match and speci lake. motor mouth liam barret drew my peg and handed me peg 7 which i quite like as i had won off it a couple of times last summer. i set up a rig for up the far shelf on hard pellet , a rig for 16 mtr to my right as i had 3 spare pegs that way and a rig for fishing corn over caster under peg 8 pallet. on the all in i potted 4mm pellets at 16 mtr down the shelf to my right , some caster and corn under the pallet to my right and fed 6, s by catty on the far shelf.
starting at 16 mtr to my right with a 6mm hard pellet on a 18 hook i had a bite first put which i missed, lowering the rig back in it hardly had chance to settle before it went under and a 6 pounder was on its way to the net, i had 4 more in the next 45 minutes plus a couple of skimmers before the aerator came on at 12 which makes the water push down the side of the island making it impossible to keep the rig still, i had no more carp on that rig but i did get a few more skimmers and a big red goldfish as they dont seem to mind the bait moving about a bit, i did manage another couple of carp on that line later in the match after mikes wave making machine had stopped.
by now , about 2 hours in i could see some movement on the far bank so i went in with the shelf rig but it took a while to sort out as you are fishing in a small weed bed so you have to keep moving the rig about till you find a clear spot, by feeding small ammounts of 6,s all the time more and more fish were arriving in the swim drawn i think to the sound of the pellets hitting the water and as the match progressed the swim was getting stronger all the time , by the end i had about 20 carp plus double figures of silvers for about 100 lb. as far as i could see on our lake the only person close to me was rod wootten on peg 20 who was admitting to 80 lb but i new he had more, and the word was that there was 4 people on the speci lake admitting to over 100 lb.
as i went round to do the weigh in i managed to put 119.14 on the scales and with no one looking to beat me till we got to rod who put 101.13 on the sheet, he would have had 6 lb more but he had over 80 lb in 1 net so it only counted as 80, plus he loose fed a 6 pounder back during the match he he he .
the match was won by mike west on peg 31 with 15 carp for 182.2 on paste down the track(thats monsters)
2 nd jamie dyte(dyke) 131.8 on 33 also on paste
3rd tony rixon 119.14
t wittcomb 116.2 peg 38(which included the 15 grassie oh yes and thanks for the quid which you sloped off with without paying, double or quits weds then)
russ peck 114,7 peg 29
rod wootten 101,13
silvers were won by pete sivell on peg 36 with28.1 of mainly chub on caster.
with the water temps beginning to drop now i think the solvite gang will be hanging up there paste buckets and the one trick pony wont be seen again till next spring. cos he is the past(e) master as he even gets beat on his own method, thats what happens when you tell people what you are doing, but that makes for better matches cos competition is good