wednesday landsend

back to landsend for the fortnightly knock up, and after a nice brekkie in abby,s dean , me and lofty radford were soon at the fishery.
dean drew for me and i ended up with peg 5, which is a nice peg as its only 13 mtrs to the island and 14.5 takes you to the corner of the island , and with little or no wind at least it was going to be a easy day not wrestling with a nasty side wind .
3 rigs soon made , a 4x12 impact 10 to .18 with the usual b960 for shallow/ stalking, a 4x10 impact 1 for up the far shelf and on the corner of the island with the same hook and line, and a 4x14 impact 6 on .14 with a 16 6313 for meat at 5 mtrs as the peg has a lot of form for silvers with decent skimmers and crucians.
on the whistle i threw some meat on the short line but didnt feed to the island yet as there were a few cruisers on the top, so it was straight out with the stalker rig and a 7 pounder was on its way to the net and with most people around me still potting bait in ,it was good start, with it being a narrow fishery and the fish being a bit wised up this method dont last long here so i only managed another one befor they dissapeared off the surface, i did catch one more later in the match doing it but that was it on that rig.
next on the meat line where i thought i would get some silvers but after 30 mins on that and only one bite which resulted in another 7 pounder that was that for that line, by know i had begun feeding three spots on the island 10 o,clock 12 and about 1.30 which is the point of the island. i began fishing between 10 and 12 picking off odd fish but losing a few foulers but as the match progressed the foulers got fewer as they began to feed properly, i kept feeding all three spots but refained from going to the point as i felt it gave the fish some where to back off to , as we had a 12 draw i left the point till 2 hours from the end which i think was agood move as it was solid, probably to many as the foulers started again but after losing a few the peg seemed to settle again as a few had been scared off leaving a bit more room in the peg(lol).
then i had a proper senior moment , with the match due to finish at 7.15 i dont understand why i called the all out at 6.15 luckily most people called me a rude name and carried on , i suppose the older i get the more of these blips are going to happen, i will have to speak to mike nicholls so he can explain to me as to what i can expect.
for company i had avon fire brigades finest each side of me today, on my right was rob lynn ,who to be fair hasnt fished for 2 years due to bad back problems , unfortunately i think he took advice from the man on my left tony the past(e)master witcomb aka daffodil who turned up with his bucket of paste slime and was gone befor the end.
i didnt know how the speci lake was going and as far as i could tell it was only martin lenaghan on 19 who was getting a few. by the time i called the second all out i think i had caught about 30 ish carp and with a decent average size i thought i had about 150 lb, i was abit out as they went 181.6 for first(dean was gutted as he has never drawn peg 5)
2nd went to adrian bishop on 27 with 108.1 all caught shallow against the island
3rd martin lenaghan 107.12 peg 19
4th phil(fabio)harding 82.10 on peg 32
5th jason(lofty)radford 75.7 peg 25
6th adrian jeffrey 59.10 peg 1silvers went to clayton(shiny tackle)hudson with 16.2 on peg 15 on worm and caster to the island.
off to avalon sunday for the second round of the float only lge, i may have a couple of spare places if anyone fancies a 50 plus pegger, ring me at the shop on 01179 517250 if interested