landsend lge rnd 3

me with my 13lb of perch and mat(the shrimp)tomes below with some of his winning catch

2 let downs today firstly craig(trig) edmonds who couldnt be bothered to let me know ,and tom thick who got wrecked in bristol sat nite and couldnt get up, both now have to pay there pools for the last match again as they have lost there up front payment for the last match.
james withers drew for me and handed me 25 on the speci lake, which is a corner peg so the ice clearing would be a bit easier, it wasnt thick ice as the lakes had been clear for a few days but a minus 3 on sat nite gave us 2 or 3 mill of ice, but most people managed without to much trouble.
2 rigs today, one for on the deck at 14mtrs, a 4x12 with an 18 6313 to .10 in 5 ft and a 4x10 with the same hook but on .12 to fish up the shelf in 3ft.
the peg hadnt shown to much in the way of carp lately so i thouight a silvers approch might be good(wrong),i cupped in some casters and maggots at 14 mtrs up and down the shelf , then shipped out a single maggot , i had a bite first drop but it wasnt the expected perch judging by the ammount of elastic that was out under the ice, 20 mins later and a 10lb common was safely netted, a quick change to a .12 hooklength and out again, then i had a run of perch befor another carp was hooked , but that came off, and thats basiccally how my match went till the end, i would get a couple of perch, then a carp and then back to the perch, an enjoyable day considering we were fishing down ice channels again.
judging by the bankside banter the other 2 lakes were fishing hard so our lake was the place to be providing you were in a corner(lol) as mat tomes was putting in a fine performance on 33 whilst andy france on 32 opposite mat was also getting a few, but the rest of the lake was hard, even last years lge winner adrian clark on 39 struggled as he BLANKED probably due to the fact he wasnt in a corner, he even sits in the corner of the cafe to eat his breakfast.
by the end i had taken 7 carp ,14 perch and an f1 thingy but i didnt think it would be enough as mat had at least 10 carp,
in the end his 10 fish went 74.12 all taken at half depth on maggot, i couldnt see him but i understand that it was a very competent perfomance from the southwests finest silvers angler
2nd went to me with 67.6 which also included the top silvers on the day of 13.5
3rd andy france 40.15 peg 32
4th mike west 21.4 peg 29
5th nick collier 20.4
6th dale howson 18.7 peg 1
oh and did i mention that adrian clark BLANKED