weds landsend

after sunday,s struggle on lake 3 (johns water) i was looking forward to getting back onto match and speci, but fairplay to mike he has been up on 3 and strimmed the spiky weed back to the island so at least the anglersw on it on sunday will be able to fish tight to the island so you wont have to sit and watch carp slurping under the grass with no chance of getting near them.
back to the draw and after fabio giving me a crap peg on sunday , dean drew for me and handed me 13, the aerater peg up in the corner, with the water wheel not meant to go off till 2.15 i would have to put up with it for about an hour as the match was a pm affair with a 7.15 finish. i dont mind as i have had some good weights from it by trotting a pellet in the flow and around the end of the island, so i set up a 4x12 impact 10 dibber on a long line (1 mtr)on .18 xedion rig line with the usual size 16 b960 for banded hair rigged pellet,(as i,ve said befor when you find something which suites you dont change and these hooks hardly ever let me down). a 4x8 non descript bristle float for 17 mtrs against the island for when the wave maker stopped and with the water 12 inches down this line was going to prove a bit difficult to sort as it was only 8 inches deep. and a 4x10 impact 1 for 7 and 10 mtrs up the left hand margin and the same rig would do the right hand margin all rigs using the same hooks and line, and with a box of 6mm pellets to feed and a few 8,s for the hook nothing could be simpler. at the start i fed a pouch into the flow and fed some with a catty into the left and right margin, it started quite well and in the first hour i had 10 chub,2 good ide and 1 carp i did expect more carp but due to there being some herbage overhanging so it meant i couldnt get the rig to run round the island tight enough in, then when the aerater went off the bites stopped so it was time to look up the edge , after a couple of quick small carp(2 pounders) it went quiet there, i was getting indications at 7 and 10 mtrs but i decided to leave the line for a while and have a look at the island, but with level being so low it was foul hook city i couldnt mouth hook them on the deck i couldnt catch one shallow, i did manage a couple but they were a taken on the drop which in 8 inches of water is a bit weird, i think they are happy to take a falling bait but not interested once it touches bottom, these landsend fish are pretty clued up.
thing is with 13 is that you cant see what is going on on the rest of the fishery as there are lots of tree,s in the way, the only peopl i could see were vic bush opposite on 11 and gary wall on 15 both of which were struggling, gary had taken a couple of early carp over on the island but by the halfway mark was fishing for silvers down to his right by a bush and vic was suffering foulers over on the island in the shallows and moaning a lot, in the end he fished paste up towards 12 and had a few tench and carp but nothing to shout about but it has been a hard peg of late and he did manage more than most have recently.
back to my peg and the 7 mtr line was ok now with the fish having settled probably due to the fact they had been fed and left to settle, i only went to 10 mtrs a couple of times and did get a few fish but it wasnt as productive as the 7 mtr line, i think by feeding the 10 and 7 but only fishing the 7 in the main meant they had somewhere to back off to and also i dont think i was getting to many in the main catching area which equates to less foulers at the end i thoght i thought i would have 80 poundish , but with dean on 19 admitting to 130 lb and
tony (the past master)witcomb saying 80 lb 2nd and 3rd was looking tight and with the speci lake sounding hard there didnt seem to be a threat from there.
as it turned out dean had 151.6 on 19 with most of his fish being taken at 5 mtrs on hard 8mm over 6,s, he did try catching on the island but suffered to many foulers.
i was 2nd with 104.13
3rd was tony witcomb just a burger behind with 104.9 on 21 on paste slime by the island
4th ray cooper on 25 speci with76 dead
5th jason radford 71.2 peg 32
6th gary wall 5.8 peg 15
silvers went to mike west on 3 with 31.4 mainly skimmers at 11 mtrs on soft pellet and corn