weds landsend

remind me never to let fabio draw for me again, it was 13 at the weekend when all the fish wereat the other end of the lake , and today he drew me peg 3, which has had no current form at all, in fact it has been the peg of death for months, my best chance for any coin today was going to lie with silvers, so a 4x14 impact 6 with a 16 middy 6313 to .12 which would do for 4 mtrs ,11 mtrs and down by the bush to my left, all 3 areas were the same depth , a 4x10 impact 1 with an 18 b960 to .16 for pellet up the shelf , an a 4x12 impact 6 again with a b960 18 to .16 for down the shelf.
at the start i cupped in some soaked 3,s at 4 and 11 mtrs ,started firing 4,s to the far side and loosefed some casters down to my left.
the first hour was slow with only 2 good skimmers and the wind didnt help as it was blowing straight down the lake and it was a lot stronger than the forcast said, the whole of the met office needs the sack, i think its just another government boby, to create jobs for he boys at the expense of the tax payer cos i dont really think they know what they are doing.
by the end of the second hour i had had several more skimmers at 4 mtrs and a tench and a crucian a 11 mtrs but it was impossible the hold the rig still long enough on the longer line as the wind was to strong, even a change to a heavier rig(4x16)didnt help as the tow was going with the wind always a bad condition.
so the last two and a half hours were spent after carp up and down the far shelf as the 2 soft pellet lines were dead, i did have a carp and 3 tidy perch oncaster down the left margin but bites were virtually non existent on that aswell. i did manage 6 more carp off the far bank but it was never going to happen as i dont think there were many fish in front of me , especially as i could see the multi talented martin pettifer and and france on 22 and 21 both catching well and shallow.even though they had both caught well ,with martin admitting to 27 carp plus some silvers it wasnt enough as the ever consistent rod wootten on speci lake 31 ended up with 132.10 which included he top silver weight on the day with 40.05 of f1,s skimmers and chub all caught on banded 6 mm
2nd martin pettifer120.11 peg 22
3rd andy france 76.06 peg 21
4th gary wall 64.13 peg 19
5th martin lenaghan 65.07
6th jason goddard (farnborough) 61.03 peg 24
oh yes and i had 48 lb.
and to make matters worse i had to give fabio 2 quid as he had 58 lb
also i cant see the sense i going to a venue you intend to fish in a match the following day and batter out 52 carp and think it will have no effect on the peg and surrounding pegs the following day, its bound to effect the fish and unsettle them i,m just glad i didnt draw near the swim,
peg 11 ,13 and 15 were the worst pegs on the lake today , 3 weeks ago it was the area to draw now the fish have followed the windand all you can catch are a few of the smaller resident fish which live ther all year round, fairplay to pete on 13 who was going to do the opposite to what i did at the weekend on the same peg shame it had about the same result, there just aint nothing there, and the old silver ace aka the gimp(john bradford)sloped off without weighing, he couldnt even get a bite on a caster