landsend weds

no chance the weather men getting it wrong today ,and we werent dissapointed, it began raining as i picked dean up and never stopped, luckily the wind wasnt to strong the brollie could be used.
good to see dan tanner back to fishing after a recent back op, thats the good thing about being young ,you mend quickly.
i let dan draw for me and he gave me peg 7, its i peg i seem to draw quite often, and usually catch a few so i wasnt complaing, although i really wanted a draw on the speci lake, the men to beat would be pete sivell on 31 dean malin on 29 and nick duckett on 27 all of which were on the speci. on my lake the main threat would be mark leader on 15 and jamie dyte on 19.
3 rigs today 2x 4x8 rigs for over .one with a 16 b960 to .18 and another with a 18 b960 to .14 both for banded pellet, and a 4x12 rig with a 18 hook to .14 to fish at 5 mtrs for hopefully some skimmers.
at the start i began by kindering some 4,s at 5mtrs with a banded 6 on the hook and fired some 6,s to the far side, and as is the norm fish began showing nearly straight away on the island , but i like to leave that line for an hour or so just to let the fish settle, in the end it was 90 mins before i looked over there as i had 6 carp and 3 good skimmers at 5 mtrs and lost 5 foulers so after 90 mins all i was getting was the odd roach.
going over it was pretty clear there were plenty of fish in the peg but they were a bit skitty as i was fouling and spooking more than i was getting in the mouth, which is always a problem in 15 inches of water.
about 2 hours from the end i switched to the lighter rig and it seemed to make a bit of difference as i started to catch better with a banded 6 on the hook instead of an 8. by the end i think i had about 23 or 24 carp and a few silvers, jamie on 19 had caught well towards the end and mark on 15 had caught steadily throughout but had suffered with foulers also on the speci nick duckett was admitting to 150lb so that was first place taken care of , and it was as his net catch went 159.14 with all his fish being taken on the far bank on banded pellet peg 27
2nd was me with 134 lb peg 7
3rd mark leader 107.11 peg 15
4th jamie dyte 103.1 peg 19, you can tell he doesnt weigh in to often as he got in a right mess trying to get his fish out of his net
5th martin lenaghan 91.14 peg 13
6th steve tanner 91.11 peg 1 thats a rare one he actually beat his son dan
silvers went to dean malin on 29 with 27.4 of mainly skimmers on 8mm over 6,s fish down the shelf at 14 mtr,s