landsend match and speci

i let trigger draw for me today and after rubbing his lucky bald spot out came 22. giving me the end of the island and a empty peg to my right. i made up a rat hole rig for tight in against the bank, (dibber) on the deck on top of the shelf,(4x10 bristle top).9 mtrs hard pellet rig(4x12) and a 4x10 rig for the right hand margin. starting at 9 mtrs on hard pellet and feeding there by catty i was soon getting indications and a bit of fizzing. forgot to say i did manage to mug a 8 pounder straight away but that dont last long at landsend and they soon dissapeared , so onto the 9mtr line. i had 3 carp and a few decent skimmers and 1 tench , then all i could get was liners, i tried shallow but never had a sensible bite ,so it was off to the far bank where i had been firing 6,s in since the start. although there were fish slurping and climbing the bank ,those of you that know landsend know they can be very difficult to get in the mouth, i find it pays to come about 1 to 1 and a half feet off fish with 1x no11 stotz down the line and keep feeding and lifting and dropping and you tend to get most in the mouth. by doing this i kept a steady stream of carp going into the net. i did have a bit of a torrid, as a couple of years ago mr duckett put some hay bales in netting around the end of the island now the hay has long gone but the bastarding netting aint, and i,m sure it keeps moving as i started hooking it all over the place end you dont get much of your rig back thats for sure,but as that seemed to be where the fish seemed happiest i put up with it. apart from 2 fish down the edge on corn the bulk of my weight came from the far side on hair rigged 6mm and feeding 6,s. on the whistle it became apparent that nick duckett would probadly win as he had caught 36 carp on peg 11 it seems the fish liked the aerater today
he weighed in 182.14 for an easy win all his fish falling to banded 6mm over 6,s against the island
i came 2nd by a good margin with 112.6
tony(slimy paste)witcomb was next off peg 18 fishing paste to the island and later to empty pallet 17
craig(trigger)edmunds was next and top scorer off the speci lake with 85.12 peg25
alan oram 62.14 pag29
gary wall 58 pag 28
top silvers was mike west with 22.2 mainly skimmers on soft pellet
just to finish off i hope you will all join with me in wishing trigger all the best for next week when he blows 1500 quid on laser treatment to try and kickstart his hair growth good luck mate but i cant help thinking the money would be better spent on a new pole