wet and windy landsend

18 fished today so mr duckett let us use match lake and half of speci. gary wall drew me peg 22 which i wasnt upset with, although its a bit of a snag pit on the end of island as the old netting from the hay bales floats around and grabs your hook as it passes!!!!!!!!!!!!
for company on 24 i had possibly the finest paste angler from bristol, tony wittcomb, so the quid bet was struck. i kept it simple today as it was to wet and windy to set to much up, one rig 4x12 with a 18 hook to .16 line to fish 13 mtr on the deck with a hair rigged 6mm and 1 rig 4x8 for over on the far shelf (wish i hadnt bothered cos it probably cost me come the end).
at the start i cupped in half a pot of 4mm split between 2 and 10 o,clock and started firing a few 6,s across. first put in at 2 o,clock the float hardly had time to settle before it dissapeared and number 1 was on its way to the net. also it wasnt long after that ,that tony on 24 was into his first fish. and thats how it went for the first 3 hour with me and tony virtually fish for fish, during the 4 th hour tony seemed to change tactics , he must have thought i said there was squirrel pool cos he spent the biggest part of the next hour doing his best to snag a few of the tree rats as he was getting quite adept at getting his rig up where they live.
i didnt mind though as it probably gave me a 10 fish lead over him. although i was still getting bites at 13 mtr i had a brain surge and went to the far side to see if i could catch any quicker, but after 1 roach and 3 foulhookers and a wasted 30 minutes so it was back to the 13 mtr line . but it wasnt the same (i should have ignored the far bank slurping)the last hour saw no carp for me and tony on 24 had 10 in that last hour so cancelling out my earlier lead. on the all out it was to close to call between us, it didnt look as though either of us were going to win as anton was admitting to 150 lb on the speci on peg 28. although tony and me had the same number of carp, his were of a slightly bigger stamp but i thought my silvers might just edge it, time would tell.
doing the weigh in it became apparent that it had fished well with nick collier and rod wooten both recording over 100 lb . i put 147 lb on the scales and tony was not to confident he thought he had about 125 lb but getting his nets out , it looked as if it was going to be close , and it was. with him beating me by 1 fish. the match was won by tony page with 166. 4 which included fish up to 17 lb peg 28. unable to catch on the paste as they had at the weekend, all his fish were caught 6 inches deep against the island on 6mm hard pellet(paste will soon be gone mr nicholls)
t wittcomb 151.3 peg 24
t rixon 147 peg 22
rod wootten 139 peg 15
nick collier 126.2 peg 5
m lenaghan 85.3 peg29
silvers nick collier 24.4 peg 5 on caster
so the quid went to mr wittcomb . i think that if i had ignored the far bank i would have probably beaten tony w , even though i had 21 lb of silvers for some reason the carp i had were of a slightly smaller size cos we had about the same number(shit i sound bitter and twisted lol)