landsend wewds

firstly a quick apology for my last blog cos people thought i had been far to nice to mat (the shrimp)tomes, but i only did it cos he asked me to write something nice, but rest assured that will be the last time.
back to today and i let mike duckett draw for me and he handed peg 1 which is another corner, i,ve had that many corners this winter i am thinking of changing my name to adrian clark(did i mention he blanked at the weekend).
the weather men had it right today as it rained all day except for the tackling up period and the weigh in, how nice was that.
2 rigs to begin with ,both on .12 with an 18 6313 on the end ,one was a 4x14 to use at the bottom of the slope along the left hand margin and a 4x12 for fishing at half depth, also the bigger rig would do for the bottom of the island shelf out to my right.
at the start i cupped in some casters and mags down my left and towards the island, starting at the bottom of the island with double mag it was 15 mins before i managed my first fish , a 12oz perch, then i hooked a carp which i lost after a minute or so a bit annoying as the maggot folded over the point, no more carp there but i did manage a couple of f1,s and some more perch before it died, so after 2 houirs it was off to the margin at 14 mtrs, since the start i had been feeding some casters with a catty so it wasnt really a suprise to get some liners, as the fish have been coming off the bottom in these corners even during the cold weather, so out with the half depth rig but that just bought a couple of foulers, so the fish were even higher in the water, so i got off my box and made another rig up, a 4x10 rig to fish about 18 inches deep with a 16 6313 on .12 to use double maggot, it wasnt manic but i did manage 10 small carp and a few more perch by the end for about 40lb, most of my fish came on the shallow rig which just goes to show that the fish will come right up to feed even in cold water, the person to beat would be martin lenaghan on 31 who had 5 carp but they are bigger on that lake, so it could be close.
in the end my net went 42.3 for a narrow win over martin who was 2nd with 41.8,
what makes it even better is that my peg was one of the golden pegs worth an extra 100 quid(mint)
3rd nick collier with 32.1 on peg 21
4th tony page 20.14 peg 32
5th dave blakemore 17.5 peg 34
6th nigel bartlett 14.8 peg 33
silvers went to the gimp, john bradford with 13.6 on peg 19 just beating andy curry by 3oz on peg 16