landsend loser

this wont take long to report. with 18 booked in we were going to use johns water and one bank of sydneys giving us all plenty of space, but with vince brown crying off on the morning due alchoholic excess and steve o,toole not even bothering to let me know, we were down to 16. i was still going to use one bank of sydney,s but due to mike west moaning that it was impossible to compete on sydneys and sulking like a spoilt brat in the cabin ,it was decided to put us all on john,s just to keep him happy. any way time for the draw and fabio drew 54 for me and 42 for himself(he aint drawing for me ever again). my peg was the last peg on the last island on the left hand bank, a peg with very little form and i cant remember when or if it has ever won a match, plus it was the calm end of the lake, and with the fish following the wind recently the far end of the lake would be the place to be. to say this side of the lake needs a serious trim is an understatement, that horrible spiky grass has completely taken over the island making it impossible to get close to the island, also with the level being down by about a foot or more i wasnt overly confident.
i,m not going to bore you with rigs and the like cos none of them worked all i had was one crucian and that was foulhooked under the chin, i did lose 3 carp but they were all foulhooked and 2 more crucians dropped off on the way back i juist couldnt get a bite , even the people using caster struggled with only small roach and rudd being caught, there were odd carp in the peg but they were up under the spikey grass having the occasional slurp and showing no signs of coming out. as expected the fish were at the windy end with rod wootten winning off peg 70 with 70.12 second was jason radford opposite on 41 with67.3 with both catching on pellet out in front then down the edge towards the end
3rd dean malin on 57 with 28.9
4th phil(how did i cock this up)harding 27.00
5th gary wall 22.00 peg 52
6th steve kedge 20.2 peg 50
silvers went to nick collins wth 14.14 on peg 46 all small roach and rudd on caster at 4 mtrs