ass whupped on the match lake

with the loss of a couple of anglers due to the world cup and them wanting to watch our overpaid useless wankers (judith,s words) but we still had enough to make it viable. dean drew for me and handed me 45 then drew 44 for himself, getting to the lake we were greeted with the site of all that white willow rubbish all over the water and with no wind at the start it might prove troublesome. at the start i cupped in some soaked 3,s at 13 mtrs and 16 mtrs straight out and 13 mtrs at 10 o,clock and down the left at the bottom of the shelf also at 13 mtrs.
starting straight out at 13 i missed a bite before dean had finished feeding his lines but that was it for about 10 mins, but by now dean had taken a couple of good skimmers(the writing was on the wall from an early stage me thinks). i was really struggling to get a bite whereas dean was catching steadily , i dont think it was the rigs as we use similar floats and hooks ,if anything my rigs were probably on lighter line, .12 with a 16 6313 , all we could put it down to was the feed, i kept on with the soaked 3,s whereas dean was feeding 4mm expanders with some 1mm in a bit of groundbait, so while dean was putting a steady stream of f1,s and skimmers in the net ,i sat there mainly biteless, i did manage 4 slightly better carp(real ones)down the left but that was it so the end couldnt come quick enough for me, then i had to do the scales as steve and paul were tied up with matches elsewhere on the fishery. so as i expected dean malin won with 50.14 with all his fish falling to soft pellet at 13 mtrs
2nd was mark summerhayes with 34.3 on peg 48 again catching at 13 mtrs on a variety of baits, meat , pellet and small pieces of paste
3rd kev molten 30.2 peg 40
4th ryan summerhayes(son of mark) 28.10 peg 43
5th john bradford 25.14 peg 49 and top silvers with 21.8 taken down the edge on caster
6th jason radford with 23.8
and i was 9th with i pitiful 16.8 luckily martin lenaghan went home so at least i won a quid trouble is i now owe it to andy bryant who had 18.14, shame fabio never went as that would have put me into profit on the quids.
in all fairness it fished quite well as the fish seem well spread out , so any small clubs out there looking for a good small venue , give the viaduct a ring and have a go, i,ve got it booked again for next week so anyone fancy a go at a bit of interesting fishing on what seems like a fair venue give me a ring at the shop, remember book early to avoid disapointment. that dont mean you tim (the nanny)clark you got an excuse