somebody had to spoil it lol

we had the match lake at viaduct booked today, and with a mainly overcast day forecast the prospects for a good day looked set.shame the sun stayed out all day(good old forecasters).paul elmes drew for me and handed me 44 then drew 43 for himself, and with dean on 45 it was set to be an interesting day, and another one to watch was fabio on 42 ,the aerater peg , a swim which is always in with a chance, luckily fabsy was about to buck the trend.
when i picked dean up in the morning i had tried to put his ready rod bag in his wheelie bin but he spotted it so the feeder rod had to come.
i set up a couple of 4x12 rigs with 6313 hooks on .12 and a wag rig to fish to the island with an 18 b960 for pellet.
at the start i cupped in some g/bait with softened micro,s at 13 and some caster and micro,s at 16.
starting at 13 paul dean and me were soon getting bites(but not fabio) and putting skimmers and f1,s in the net as were most people i could see(but not fabio), it seems to be a venue that needs constant feeding, as if you dont put enouigh in or stop feeding for any length of time the fish dissapear.
by the halfway mark it was probably neck and neck between dean and me with the 2 of us edging ahead of the people we could see, then he had to go and spoil it, he chucked the feeder out(urgh),and began catching really well with triple maggot on the hook, i tried the wag but with a skimmy wind stopping me from keeping the float close to the island that was going to be a none starter for me, so i spent the rest of the match on the pole switching between the 2 lines getting the odd good skimmer and f1, dean did try and go back to the pole but as he hadnt fed it enough the swim had died for him on that line.he did go down the edge towards the end and nail a 12 lb fish that someone had snuck in from spring lake so by the end i reckoned he had beaten me by 20 lb and so it proved to be as dean won with 56.7 (float only next time me thinks or does that sound bitter and twisted lol)
2nd t rixon 36.4 including top silvers weight with 21.12
3rd paul elmes 25.2
4th l hubbard 24.3
5th j radford 22.3
6th a jeffery 22.1
with jason radford taking the p out of dean most of the day the writing was on the wallso when dean finally his hands on there was only going to be one out come , and with dean having him in a sleeper hold he didnt put jason down until he passed out luckily jason started breathing again and recovered very quickly which is just aswell as there aint to many places for the air ambulance to land