landsend winter league round 8 the final

sydneys lake today which is lake 4, i wanted pegs 72 or 94 which are end pegs opposite each other , but no i go and pull myself 78, in the middle, at least i had anton page for company on 79. with nothing to fish for as far as the league goes i thought i might as well put some g bait in and see if i could line some skimmers up and win the silvers on the lake, so i set up a 4x14 rig with an 18 3613 hook to .10, a corn rig for down the edge 4x12 with .14 and a 16 3613, and 2 pellet rigs for over , again with .14 line and a 18 b960 for hair rigged banded pellet. on the whistle i cupped in a ball of g bait at 6 mtrs and some soaked 3mm pellets to the island, some on the end of the islaqnd in 2 ft of water and some along the side of the island in 1 ft of water.
starting at 6mtrs on maggot over the g bait , the first bite resulted in a fouled carp which was duly lost, then a couple of small roach then another carp but in the mouth this time, small roach became a problem now so switch to soft pellet resulted in a couple of skimmers, on with a piece of corn and another carp was in the net. i stayed on this line for about 1 1/2 hours but was going nowhere with silvers , and as mike west on 75 was getting a small skimmer every drop it was time to look to see if the carp would play ball, the carp in this lake are on the small side with anything over 2 lb deing a good one, by now i was firing 3mm pellets over to the 2 areas on the island as i think they are beginning to respond to the noise now so the toss pots stayed in the box. out to the end of the island in the 2ft deep swim , but it wasnt going to plan as apart from a couple of carp and some roach it was hard, so over to the second island swim , that was better and a steady stream of small carp were soon finding there way into the net, you couldnt nail the fish down in 1 spot you had to keep lifting and dropping the rig up and down the far shelf picking up odd fish.
i had 8 fish out of the margin on corn during the match, as far as i could see andy france on 72 had been catching from the off so it looked as though he was going to win the lake so the best i could hope for was a section win by default. as expected andy won the lake wit 73.10 so the section money was mine wth 45.12 , stu foale was second on the lake off 94 with 61 lb but i did win anither quid off anton and mat tomes who was end peg 83 in the corner, perhaps he never put any bait on till halfway through lol.
the match was won by rod wootten on 13 with 137.3 all his fish being taken on banded pellet 8 mtrs up the left margin and 8 mtrs down his right hand margin.
2nd nick collier with 108.12 off peg 50 which has been a rubbish peg all series so fairplay
3rd mark leader 104.2 peg 42
4th nick duckett 103.5 peg 70
5th chris davis 102.12 peg 24
6th james withers 77.00 peg 29
silvers nick duckett 34.00 all on banded pellet
2nd ryan shipp 28.5 peg 5
3rd mike nicholls 27.9 peg 1
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1st nick collier 46 pts 478.8lb £550 . only dropping 2 points on the way which is a really good performance, showing how adaptable you need to be as each peg can be so different on each day
2nd vince shipp 42 pts 450.12lb £450
3rd rod wootten 39 pts 412.7 lb £350
4th gary wall 36 pts 305.14 lb £250
5th mat tomes 34pts 308.9 £150
6th dave hodgson 34pts £100
7th nick duckett 33pts but won the series silver so picked up £300
8th ken rayner32pts 202.2 £50
silvers 2nd in series john bradford £200
wll done to mike and ken for running and sorting out the problems along the way