landsend, return of the paste master

another reasonable turn out today with 18 fishing so we used the match lake and the far bank of the speci. gary wall drew me 27 on the speci , which i wasnt to upset about, its always capable of throwing up a good carp weight and there have been some good skimmers showing over the last few weeks.
arriving at the peg i was suprised to see some spawning activity going on , the f1,s were having a go in the margins so i didnt think they would be to keen to feed.
4 rigs today , one shallow just in case, a 4x10 for up the shelf over by the island a 4x12 for just down the shelf and 4x14 with a 16 6313 to .12 for 11mtrs on soft pellet, all the other rigs were .16 with a 16 b960 for hair rigged banded pellet, the 4x10 rig would do for down my margin as it was the same depth(15 inches)as over by the island.
at the start i cupped in some soaked 3mm,s at 11 mtr and started firing 6mm over to the island , and feeding a few down the edge, starting at 11 mtr on soft pellet i had a couple of skimmers in the first 15 mins then the roach moved in and when these little buggers turn up you dont catch much else , i tried dumping a big pot in but that just made it worse with me missing every bite
its ok catching these little devils on your top set but you aint going to do any good catching them at 11 mtrs.
so the island and the carp , starting down the shelf with an 8mm pellet i had a 8lb carp in the net within 10 mins then a couple of liners and a lost fouler had me reaching for the on top of the shelf rig, as always on these pegs you can see carp activity all along the island so you know you are going to get bites , and sure enough it wasnt long befor i hooked and landed my first fish from the island, when fishing against the island it dosent pay to keep your bait still keep feeding and lift and drop your bait all the time and most of the bites came on the drop, i did keep trying the shallow rig but i never had a fish on that, i could see fabio on 31(that peg is like a second home to him), also tony witcomd was getting an odd fish on 32 using the old slime bait. halfway through i went down the edge and started getting chub, i also had a carp then it went quiet down there so it was back to the island, several carp later it was back down the edge for a couple more, by swapping between the two lines i caught odd fish right to the end, as far as our lake was going john smith and charlie barnes hadnt caught to much, fabio had about 100 lb but tony witcomb had had a flying last 2 hours so he had probably beaten me, as for the match lake i didnt have a clue, but dean wandered round and said there were possibly, three 100lb plus weights on that lake as well.
as it turned out tony witcomb won with 160.2 on peg 32 fishing paste up the edge at 14 mtr (where have these fair weather fairies been all winter)
2nd was adrian bishop on 22 with 138.10 caught properly on shallow pellet(and its not just me who puts to much in one net is it adrian)
3rd tony rixon 128.14 peg 27
4th phil (fabio) harding 108.9 peg 31
5th jamie dyte 98.15 peg 19
6th dean malin 98.10 peg 3
silvers went to the thatchers rent boy tom thick with 35.10 on peg 10 fishing caster and soft pellet between 6 and 13 mtrs taking ide, tench , skimmers and f1,s