a landsend fish injection

christ that fabio can draw, this was the fifth time he has drawn 31 on the speci lake ,shame was though he drew it for me ha ha ha .getting to the peg and i was greeted with the sight of about 15 carp of varios colours and sizes on the surface sunbathing. i did set up a margin rig to fish corn down the edge but never used it even though i fed it for the whole match.
i set up a dibber rig to fish shallow at the start for the sunbathers with a 16 b960 to .18 for hair rigged banded pellet, and a 4x12 impact 1 for about 2 foot of the island in 2 foot of water and a 4x10 impact 1 for tight to the island both with the same hooks and line as the dibber,when i find a hook and line which suites me i very rarely change ,and the b960 hooks and xedion rig line very rarely lets me down so why change.
at the start i went straight out with the dibber rig trying to poach a couple of cruisers, and sure enough i had 2 x 6 pounders in the first 10 mins , and that was it as far as the cruisers went , these landsend fish dont stand to much chasing around the surface, after half an hour of that and with no more bites it was out with the 2 foot rig, and within 5 mins i was attached to a 12 pounder, which was duly netted , then the fun started as my landing net was a bit worse for wear and the fish fell straight through and back into the water , still attached to the hook, so i had to pass my topset through the hole, get off my box get a spare landing net screw it in , the whole time this was going on the carp just sat by my keepnet so i thought it would be easy to net , but i think it was just getting its breath back as it fought harder the second time around, and after that the match was really enjoyable with fish coming steadily for the whole match , although it did get better towards the end , so much so that i put 95 lb in my third carp net in the last 90 minutes and there is a 80 pound net limit in place (doh again). i never had to go in tight to keep catching though i did shallow up a bit more to about 18 inches and about 12 inches off the island and by feeding 2 pouches of 6mm,s after every fish and lifting and dropping an 8mm in the band i ended up with about 30 fish, the only other person i knew had caught well was dean malin on 26 who was admitting to 20 carp , but good ones . fabio turned up with the scales and started with stu taylor on 32 who had struggled and ended up with 30 lb.
my fish went 206.5 ,i just hoped the 15lb i had to much in 1 net wouldnt cost me but it did give dean a laugh being that i was so much over as he had done the same at viaduct the week befor, but he who laughs last laughs longest as when we weighed deans fish he was over in both of his nets giving him 178.3 and second (whose the loser now then)
3rd tony the past(e) master witcomb 98.4 peg 19
4th chris fox 84.4 peg 5
5th adrian bishop 60.00 peg 17
6th john(evergreen)smith 57.4 peg 22
silvers were won by the maestro john(the gimp) bradford with an excellent 53.2 on peg 3. mainly skimmers and tench on caster at 3 mtrs
2nd mike west 28.12 peg 11
after the crappy weekend i had today was just, what i needed roll on the weekend for the first of the float only,s