weds fortnightly landsend

again we had enough to use the match and half the speci and with the water levels slowly creeping up we might get a bit of depth on the far bank. stu foale drew for me and handed me peg 3 and then drew 13 for himself and i really wanted to draw on the speci, oh well.
two far bank rigs today ,one to fish tight to the island in 8 inches of water, and one to fish about 2 foot off in 12 inches both 4x8 with a 16 b960 to .18 for hard pellet, both rigs would do both lines(why didnt i just put one rig together), and a 4x12 rig with a 18 to .14 to fish banded 6,s over 4mm for skimmers at 5mtrs, cos the peg has been quite consistent for silvers in the last few matches.
at the start i cupped in some soaked 4,s at 5 mtrs and half a pot of 6,s up on the island shelf. starting at 5mtrs i soon had a couple of roach and a small skimmer in the net, then the westerley wind began blowing right to left making it all but impossible to hold the rig stiil long enough to get a bite, when the wind eased slightly and the rig stayed still you would get a bite, by the end of the first hour i had 3 good skimmers and some roach but had aLso lost 2 carp one was fouled but one was mouth hooked.
i had been feeding with a catty to the island and i could see the odd tail in between the waves, so over i went and i lost a fouler straight away then had a couple of quick ones but then the fish seemed to dissapear p[robably due to the shallowness of the swim, i also tried feeding to a bush 16.5 mtrs to my left but the wind stopped me fishing it to much but i did get 2 carp from there.
most of my match was spent between chasing tails on the far bank and trying to get skimmers down the middle but with the wind pushing all the rigs through it was difficult so i was pleased to finish the match with about 15 carp and 10 good skimmers, with the tree,s and bushes which surround the peg you cant see the rest of the lake ,the only person i could see was nick duckett on 5 but he had struggled a bit so the quid was safe , the match lake had been difficult with josh garrett admitting to 19 carp on peg 19 for an estimated 85 lb. my combined net went 86.7 with the net split of 18lb of skimmers and the balance 15 carp, by the time the scales got round to josh i was still top on the lake and luckily for me the 4 carp he had in his second net turned out to be 3 as one had jumped out (ha ha), so he ended up one fish short of me with 83.10.
first on the day was dean malin on 32 on the speci lake with 163.4 all his fish falling to pellet fished shallow at 14mtrs taking fish to 15lb
a close second was me with 86.7 peg 3
3rd josh garrett 83.10 peg 19
4th mike west 69.7 peg 11
5th adrian bishop 62.14 peg 21
6th jamie dyte 58 peg 31
silvers went to jamie dyte with 20.12 of f1,s taken at 13 mtrs on paste and soft pellet i think