viaduct weds

didnt know wether it was a good idea going to somerton today as it was the first day the parking was open for the music festival , but the traffic was going the other way going so we went through with no problems. 22 were booked in but roger andoniou couldnt get there due to the traffic on the m5.
i drew for myself today and got 102 which is a reasonable peg with a lot of form as a lead chuck, but i cant bring myself to do it so i left that to the "experts".
i set up a 9 inch drake peacock wag to fish at depth with a 14 b960 on .18 for pellet, a 2x12 j2 on .18 with a 16 b960 for on the deck at 14.5 mtrs , a dibber rig for shallow and a 4x10 j2 for meat down the edge but i got roached out on that so i wont mention that again.
on the all in i cupped about a third of a pot of 6,s on the pole line and began firing 8,s on the wag line at about 25 mtrs. it took 15 minutes to get a bite on the pole which resulted in a 8 pounder and that was it on the pole really for the next hour, i did try shallow a couple of times but apart from a skimmer and a lost fouler that was it , so with about an hour and a half gone it was out on the wag and a couple of fish were soon added but that went hard so it was back to the pole and another carp and 2 good skimmers so by switching between the wag and the pole i ended up with 13 carp up to about 16 lb and just into doubles of skimmers , but the chances of a pick up were looking dodgy as dick bull on 90 had a load as did andy powers on 97, mash on 73 and steve jackson on 76 had caught 18 carp out 77,78,79 and 100 also dean malin on 68 had mugged 16 on peg 68.
in the end mash came out top on 73 with 194.9 on pellet some shallow on the wag and pole and some down the edge
2nd andy power 166.3 mainly on the wag at half depth
3rd dick bull 154.7 peg 90
4th steve jackson 142.8 peg 76
5th dean malin 130.9 peg 68
6th tony rixon 130.6 peg 102 and dean beat me for the section but i aint bitter(much)
silvers were won by john green on 100 with 36.14 of skimmers at 3mtrs on soft pellet over groundbait
2nd was mat tomes(i better mention him or he will sulk) 30.4 again on soft pellet on peg 86