weds landsend

only one no show so with 17 of us we used match and 25 to 32 on the speci, i must abmit i fancied a draw on the speci as it had been fishing better than the match lake, but i ended up on 17 which is ok ,but then every peg had plenty of room so i didnt mind any of the pegs on match. with nick duckett on 32 in the corner of speci i felt he would be the man to beat, even mark leader on 31 would be hard to beat even if he only used one top set at a time(sorry mark i couldnt help myself lol).
back to my peg and it was going to be an all out hard pellet attack, so a 4x12 impact 6 fer 5 mtrs with a 18 b960 0n .16. a 4x8 bristle float for against the island on top of the shelf and the same rig would do for down my right hand margin, a 4x10 in line j range dibber for up in the water just in case they came up and a 4x10 j2 for the empty pallets each side(never used).
at the start i cupped in some 6,s by the island , some to the empty pallets each side, threw some 4mtrs down to my right by a bush and began throwing some 4,s at 5 mtrs in front.
starting on the 5 mtr line i had 2 good skimmers one carp, lost 2 foulers , and with carp showing against the island the temptation was to go over ,but i,ve found in the past it pays to just keep feeding them and leave them alone as long as possible, after 90 mins i still only had the one carp but now had 5 good skimmers but with the line seemingly dying it was time to go across, as i was feeding across with a catty the fish were slurping off the island which always makes them hard to catch, i did manage a few on the bottom but foulers were a nightmare, i went across with the dibber rig 6 inches deep(half depth)and by lifting and dropping against the island i did get some in the mouth but it was hard ,even though mike had strimmed the island there were still some small straggly bits sticking out which resulted in one snapped elastic and 3 lost rigs so time for a change, i put the catty down and started cupping in about 18 inches off the island and fishing the rig past the feed and that seemed to work better with most fish being hooked in the mouth.
going into the last two hours i was swopping between my right hand margin and across and ended up with 25 carp and the 5 skimmers.
luckily the wind had made it difficult for most people and my weight of 138.7 was enough to win on the day
2nd went to mark leader with 120.3 on peg 31 , with the wind making it impossible to fish long he was limited to 13 mtrs and paste
3rd nick duckett on 32 had 102.1 also on paste at 5mtrs
4th martin lenaghan 87.2 peg 11
5th mike duckett 66.6 peg 22
6th adam caswell 64.12 peg 5
silvers went to ed wynne on 28 with 22.4 of perch and chub on caster down the margin.
off to avalon again this sunday for an open , and as its sold out its good to see its growng in popularity.
so if you are looking for a match mat (shrimphead)tomes is running one at landsend and after his attempts at rod and line the week before at avalon i,m not suprised he wants to go to a pole venue so if you are interested give him a ring on 07868165528