viaduct pole only weds

27 booked in today so it goes to prove these pole only events arent losing any of there popularity with miles levy from farmborough and harry billing coming up from cornwall the news of the good sport is travelling. unfortunately miles had to pack up early as he had run out of top sets and harry didnt bother the scales as he drew 81 and that hasnt been the best of pegs all summer.
i drew for myself today and managed to pull 129 which is the carpark side of the spit on cambell, no complaints there as it is a good consistent peg, for company i had fishery boss paul greenwood on 128 whose watch seemed to gain 2 minutes during the match and steve denmead on my right who managed to bore me to death with his skiing holiday stories from the last 15 years.
i had intended to fish paste if i was on cary but as i wasnt i didnt set the messy rig up , in hindsight it may have given me a few extra fish but i will never know. so it was three pellet rigs one shallow , one deep 4x12 for 14 mtrs and a 4x10 to fish 2 foot deep about 2 foot off the spit . on the whistle i cupped some 6,s at 14 mtrs and some by the spit at 13 mtrs, straight out with the deep rig with a banded 8mm on the deep rig ,the float went under and i had a fish in the net before most had finished feeding there pegs, then the foulhookers turned up , i,m beginning to think there is a strain of carp in these lakes that have been bred without mouths cos you cant seem to hook them in it, looking round everyone was getting the same problem and with all the anglers feeding and fishing differently i dont think anyone has the answer really, and today it was worse as the fish didnt want to come up and feed shallow , that is not until the last hour or so as a few started to catch up in the water. i stopped trying to catch shallow pouched in 2 or 3 pouches of 6,s and left it until i had 2or 3 fish(or lost 2 or 3)then fed again, i moved all my shot up under the float except for 2 numder 10,s down the line and kept lifting and dropping, if i got a bite on the drop it was in the mouth and if i got a bite after it had settled it was fouled, i had tried the spit several times but it didnt really start showing signs of life until about an hour and a half from the end when again i began to get bites on the drop, i had another senior moment as it took me about 30 mins to realize what was going on , i cut down my shallow rig and went a bit closer to the spit and as the end drew near i couldnt get the rig in quick enough as i think i had 8 or 9 fish in the last 40 mins. the scales turned up and my 31 carp 1 tench and 2 goldfish went 158.4 and my net with the 16 carp in was 6lb over the fishery net limit of 80lb so its only 14 fish per net from now on.
first on the day was paul (speedy watch)greenwood on 128 with 199.6 whose catch was 159lb of carp and 40lb of tench and skimmers the carp coming from the spit and the silvers falling to meat fished at 6 mtrs
2nd was josh garrett on 111 with 173.15 he managed to catch shallow in the last hour and a half to end up with 32 carp.
3rd andy lloyd 173 3 on peg 125
4th tony rixon 158.4 peg 128
5th nick white 150.8 peg 86 for top weight on cary
6th tony witcomb 147.11 peg 90
the silvers were a close affair with chris davis on 127 taking 58.11 of mainly skimmers on meat and corn at 5mtrs. close behind in second was martin preston on 78 cary with 58.10(just a bounce of the scales)again skimmers on soft pellet over groundbait