bank holiday landsend

30 booked in for today, probably a couple to many to make for a good match but if people want to go who am i to stop them, and there is 40 pegs to pick from. i was forced to pick my own peg today , and ended up on 38 on the speci lake, not a peg i would have chosen, in fact i had it circled to leave out if i could,(shit happens).
three rigs today a 4x14 rig with a 16 6313 for caster down the edge , a 4x12 rig with the same hook to .12 for soft pellet at 13 mtrs, and a 4x10 on .16 to a banded b960 size 16 for 8mm pellet on the island shelf over 6mm fed by catty.
at the start i cupped in some soaked 3mm , fired some 6,s to the island and fed caster each side at 3 mtrs, the first hour was a bit slow but i did manage 3 good skimmers and a 2lb f1 befor the small roach turned up and made soft pellet fishing a proper mare, by now mat tomes on corner peg 33 had taken about 6 carp so the writing was on the wall as far as the 2 quid side bet went . i normally see carp onthe far bank feeding on the pellet but they werent showing today, the odd fish was cruising through but didnt seem to keen to stop and feed, probably because there wasnt enough there to make them compete.up on the other side i could hear pete sivell on 31 and nick collier on 30 getting a few carp on pellet shallow towards the island, stange thing today was that there was 3 grass carp caught , 2 by russ peck on 29 and one by nick on 30 thing is i think it was the same fish as it went 12.3 each time it was weighed as you have to weigh and return theese fish straight away. i did have some reasonable perch and 3 good chub down the edge on caster but it was a real struggle. the last 2 hours of the match were spent on the far bank carping , but they didnt want to play, i did manage 5 and lost 2 , one of which was a good double which i knew would cost me the section , but judging by the way itwas fighting i dont think it was in the mouth , but some where close to it.when i weighed i had 16 lb of silvers and 23 lb of carpfor a 39lb total , not good enough for anything today, mat tomes caught steadily for the whole match to end up with 154.5 for a comfortable win, with most of his fish coming shallow up the edge or out to the aerator on hair rigged pellet with fish up to 12lb, fairplay matty it just goes to show that you can make the transition from lead linger to proper angler if you put your mind to it, and the gossip on the bank is about you taking antons place in the got baits team cos shergar seems to have lost it a bit.
2nd was pete sivell on 31 with 84.4 also taken on shallow pellet
3rd nick collier 75.8 on peg 30
4th mike west on peg 5 again he draws this more often than fabio draws 31, he had 70.00 which inluded the top silver weight of 52.8 all taken on soft pellet at 11 mtrs
5th leon(the imp)hubbard with 65.14 on peg 6 , again on pellet
6th phil(fabio)harding 54.8 on peg 15
2nd in the silvers john (the gimp)bradford on peg 7 with 33.06.
when is this cold weather going to end as i think the fish as well as us have had enough of it now , with water temperatures hovering around 12 c the fish arent to inclined to begin to feed properly, if we get a couple of warm days the fish really switch on, then we get more cold days and nights and it slows it all up again, its all just rubbish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!