landsend weds

i think the only way i am going to stop drawing flyers is to stop fishing(like thats going to happen). today mike west drew for me and handed me peg 15 a proper form peg of late . for company i had dean malin to my left and andy france to my right and numerous carp swimming about in front of me, i set up margin rigs for each side to fish hard pellet on the deck wit a 16 b9.60 to .16 and 4x12 impactq floats , the same rig for 13 mtrs on the deck hard pellet again, a 4x10 impact 1 float same hook and line for up on the island shelf in 2 foot of water and a 4x12 impact 2 for up in the water .at the start i cupped in 4mm pellets up the shelf and at 13 mtrs and loose fed 6,s each side in the margins. staight out to 13mtrs with a banded 6mm , lowered the rig in and it went staight under and i had one by the tail which was duly lost after a couple of minutes, back out again and as i was just about to put the rig back in a ghostie swam by , so i dangled the pellet and it took it , numder 1 in the net. back out and now i began fireing 4mm pellets out with the catty(chuck the toss pots in the bin now), i was now getting lots of dinks and bumps, liners. out with the shallow rig with a 6mm on , after a couple of missed bites i soon had the culprit , a chub of about a pound then a 3lb carp, 3 more chub then another carp but it wasnt as good as i expected it to be. by now there were odd carp topping between me and dean so i swung round to 10 o,clock at 13 to 14 mtrs and never looked back, i had 6 carp shallow in as many put ins, and that was the rest of the match taken care of really with most fish coming on the angle towards dean, with an odd fish coming off the island when the killing zone went quiet, and the margin rigs werent needed. its strange how it goes sometimes as dean isnt a slouch when it comes to catching shallow but he could hardly raise a bite fishing 16 mtrs back towards me, he did get one from my swim when i was playing one but that was the only one even though he did try a couple of times. it must have something to do with the way the fish are facing. by the end i reckoned i had about 30 carp for 130 lb but dean reckoned on 150. how comehe can guess other people,s weight but he gets his so massively wrong , he was closest as i weighed 157.11, it would have been a bit more but i fell foul of the 80 lb net limit as i had 8lb to much in a net
2nd was tony (daffodil)witcomb 87.7 on peg 31 again 6mm pellet shallow
3rd mike west 53.10 peg 21
4th chris fox 48.13 peg 19
5th dean malin 43.6 peg 13
6th andy france 42.2 peg 17
top silver weight went to eddie wynne with 25.14 of roach and perch taken on caster fished up the edge at 13 mtrs on speci 25
2nd jason radford 22.00
the day started well with a cracking brekkie at shipham , then i snapped my number 7 section just before the start so now my pole is 1mtr shorter, and the after match entertainment belonged to dean and jason, they decided to have a competition as to who could hold on the the electric otter fence the longest, jason managed 20 seconds(awesome)but he was jumping about a bit, as for hard man deano, well we couldnt even count to 1 and he was letting go, it was funny to watch