bank holiday landsend

even though we only had 21 booked in mike let us use match and speci, so plenty of room today.
i was forced to draw my own peg today so i wasnt to upset when i drew 31 for myself(ha ha), i drew this peg a couple of weeks ago and had over 200 lb off it so to say i fancied it would be an understatement, for company i had rod wootten on 32 and jason radford on 29.
3 rigs today all on .18 with a 16 b960 for hair rigged banded pellet, on was a 4x12 impact 10 for shallow , a 4x10 impact 3 for up the far shelf against the island , and a 4x12 impact 6 for just down the island shelf in 3 foot of water.
at the start i began firing 6mm pellets towards the island and began down the shelf , it ook about 5 mins to get my first carp, and i had 5 in the first hour, a good start.
then mikes wave making machine started at 12 and that was the end of my bites really until the aerater went off after 2 hours, even after it went off i couldnt catch against the island where you normally do , odd fish would come in and have a bit of a mooch but didnt seem to happy to stay under the pole tip . with fish uder the bushes at the front of the island there was only one optian , and that was to go 17 mtrs so a quick plumb up revealed the same depth as my side of the island so the same rig would do. i wish i had done it earlier as i began getting liners and bites straight away , trouble was ed wynne on 25 had landed 20 plus carp by now so it was to late to play catchup, but who knows i did lose several fish , some of which i,m sure were hooked in he mouth, by the end i had about 18 carp so i thought i would have about 100 lb which was never going tobe enough as ed had 28 and stu foale on match lake 21 had had a good day.
stu foale ended up winning with 135.13 on peg 21 with all his fish falling to hard pellet between 13 and 16 mtrs, it was also the bronze peg so he picked up 145 plus 85 for winning so he was more than happy .
2nd was ed wynne with 127.13 on peg 25 catching all his fish 14.5 mtrs up his left hand margin
3rd was me with 89.15 over estimated badly
4th paul (the beaver)elmes on peg 22 with 86.4
5th dave (beany)westcott on peg 15 68.00
6th jamie dyte 60.00 on peg 39
silver were won by john bradford on peg 13 with 37.9 0f chub, perch,tench and skimmers on caster
2nd in the silvers went to steve lippett on 17 with 28.2