putting it right

after last weeks poor showing on the match lake at viaduct i was looking forward to going back for another go.i think the main problem last week was that i never attacked the peg enough so i was determined to do better this week. at the draw i ended up with 47 which hasnt shown to much form since they restocked the lake, it used to be a proper flier a few years back when the big carp were in there as it is the shortest chuck to the island for the pellet wag , but unfortunately khv took care of most of the better fish so it has now been stocked with f1,s , skimmers and tench with a few small carp aswell.
only 2 rigs today ,a 4x14 for 13 mtrs and a 4x12 for 16 mtrs as it was a tad shallower further out both on .12 with a 16 6313 hook , the plan was to feed 4mm expanders with micro,s and a bit of dusty g bait at 13 mtrs and then caster and micro,s at 16. i cupped in some feed at 13 and 16 then went straight in at 13 with double maggot and an f1 was soon in the net, then i lost a good skimmer, the bites went a bit funny then so i put on a piece of corn and had several skimmers and a couple of f1,s, by kindering some feed in after every 2 fish i kept getting odd skimmers and small f1,s and i did get a 2lb tench aswell, i had left the 16 mtr line for as long as possible , but i had been cupping in some micro,s and casters about every 20 to 30 minutes so with 2 hours to go i went on it and began getting indications and it wasnt long before a small carp was in the net, i did get a couple of 3 pounders on that line plus some more f1,s and i also had another good skimmer at 13 mtrs with all the fish taking double maggot in the last 2 hours, the good thing with this peg is that you can see all the other anglers on the lake apart from the three on the bottom bank as the island blocked my view, and the only person who seemed to be a threat was paul elmes on 51 who had been catching small carp and f1,s quite regularly , martin mcmahon on 50 was really struggling next to paul as he was only fishing at 13 mtrs so he put another section no and went out to 14.5 and began catching really quickly up until then he only had 2 fish but endd the match with 21lb 20 lb of which came in the last hour and a quarter, why does that happen.
at the end i thought i had 35 to 40 lb but my catch went 42.8 which was enough for first and i also had the top silvers weight of 21.11
paul elmes was 2nd with 37.5 on peg 51 on soft pellet and maggot over micro,s at 14 mtrs
3rd craig(trig)edmunds 27.11 peg 43
4th adrian jeffrey 26.2 peg 48
5th jason radford 25.6 peg 42
6th leon hubbard 24.8 peg 40
highlight of the day was jason radford stepping off the platform into the lake , good job it was only 2 foot deep so he managed to keep his head above the water. another interesting day with silvers being an important part of the overall weights with skimmers and tench being the bonus fish which is a refreshing change and with no pegs standing out it is as i said last week a fair venue with winning pegs changing every time