pole only at viaduct

it was a good turn out again as 26 were booked in, i thought tim pallant might have turned up to this one , but perhaps the zip on the back head was stuck so he couldnt get his brain back in, lol.
i ended up with 110 today which is a corner peg on cambell, its not shown to much good form of late but its warmed up so i did quite fancy it , and i think gary bedford had 70 or 80 lb on it at the weekend so there were a few fish about, i must admit i really fancied a draw on cary to win , but time would tell.
five rigs today , a 4x12 j range float with the line going through the body, a couple of 4x12 impact 6,s ,one for by the stump to my left and one for 16 mtrs to my left by the brambles , a 4x10 impact 1 for corn down to my right (which i never used), and an impact 10 for up in the water.
all rigs had my favourite size 16 b960 to .16 with a hair rigged band on.
on the whistle i cupped in some 6mm,s at 16 mtr straight out and some at the same distance down the left towards the brambles, fed some by hand by the stump to my left at 6 mtrs and put 1/2 a pot of corn at the same distance to my right.
starting at 16 mtrs in front it wasnt long befor i was playing my first carp, with that safely in the net it was out with the same 8mm pellet in the band but i lost the next 3(not so good). i started feeding with a catty now and began to put a few in the net, by the end of the first hour i had 7 in the net but had probably lost the same, as foulers were a bit of a problem, looking around i could see most people were getting a few so it was going to be hard to call today.
2 hours in and i had a look down by the stump and i had a good run of tench and a couple of carp, this lasted for 45 mins then it went off there so back out to 16 mtrs and 3 or 4 more carp including 2 shallow but that line was getting harder now , i had been feeding by the brambles all this time and with 2 1/2 hours to go it was time to have a look and i caught steadily up to the end , mainly carp with a spattering of tench, each time i looked round i could see dean malin, mark harper and vince brown all catching well, vince was shallow on pellet, mark was catching well down the edge on corn and dean was also down the edge on pellet, over on the other bank alan healey on 127 had been catching mainly shallow on pellet. on cary tony witcomb on 94 was admitting to 20 carp while tom (rent boy )thick had 17 carp and a lot of skimmers on 103 , and with the fish on cary being a lot bigger it was going to be very hard to call, i ended up with 40 carp and a bout 25 lb of silvers for hopefully 160lb ish only the scales would tell.
in the end vince brown had 216.2 on peg 116 shallow on pellet at 16 mtrs
2nd tom thick with 200.6 on 103 all falling to paste fished down his left margin
3rd tony rixon 183.3
4th mark harper 176.14 peg 115
5th dean (idiot)malin 174.14 peg 114 he had about 15 lb to much in a net haha
6th tony witcomb 167.7 peg 94
sivers
tom thick 34.14
charlie barnes 29.2 peg 76
what a good match ,with 17 weights over 100lb including 2 people wiyh over 200 lb , perhaps with it being pole only it encouraged the fish to come closer , as no one was feeding them out in the middle they had to come to the pole line or it could just be that they wanted to be there , who knows!!!!!!!
i was next to adrian jeffrey today who has been having it abit hard of late and really struggling to catch, even today he was getting lots of bites but failing to connect with anything, mind you it doesnt help when you fish with a hair rigged banded pellet and you dont have a hook on!!!!!!!!
it must be an age thing.