weds landsend

another good turn out today so we used match and a bit of speci, leighton palmer drew for me(our new silver ace, move aside shrimphead)and handed me peg 15, it can be an excellent silvers peg as there is a tree in the water to the right and with 16 not in i fancied it for some of the big perch that are in this lake, so with this in mind i set up a 4x14 rig with a 18 6313 on .10 to fish by the tree and at 11 mtrs as its the same depth and a similar rig to fish the margin to my left, just in case. it sometimes pays to to set up a rig to fish undere the tree as there are usually some carp to be had, but if you feed it they normally show themselves as its only 2 ft deep so you can see them but it can be a bit suicidal as you need to fish in the submerged branches, so i didnt bother(when will i learn). at the start i cupped in some caster at 11mtrs and fed by hand some casters left, and right in front of the tree and under the branches. starting at 11 with double maggot it took 20 mins to get the first bite which was a good carp, over 10lb. a good start and as far as i could see it was fishing hard with some people still waiting for there first bite, a few mins later and a 3 pounder was also in the net to keep the first company, i then had a 8oz perch but lost a couple of foulers out in front but down to the left probuced 2 small perch, so that side was a non starter, out to the right hand side in front of the tree, 2 perch and another 3 lost foulers and it all started looking a bit pear shaped, it was now about halfway and things werent going to well with 2 carp and a few perch for my efforts, then i saw a gold shape under the bush so i started flicking some casters down the edge but it was another hour before i got off my box and made up a 4x10 rig on.16 with a xedion size 18 on the end, so with 2 hours to go i put 3 mags on the hook and lowered it in next to the branches, which was just a topset with a short 4 away, on lo and behold i had one first drop, now i had to pull like fxxx with the tip as low as possible so the rig didnt snag the branches, with it safely netted i refed and went back out to 11 mtrs, and i had a carp there, so that was it really as by the end i managed 5 from under the tree with only one loss due to the hook coming undone(angler error), and 6 from the 11 mtr line, i thought my 11 caRP and few perch would go abouit 55lb and as far as i could tell the only person on our lake with more fish was bristols finest flooring specialist adrian clark(e) on peg 21 who had 14 carp, and thats how it ended with adrians fish going69.7 all taken at 13 mtrs on soft pellet
2nd was me with 65.13 all falling to maggot
3rd nigel bartlett 50.8 peg 33
4th pete sivell 43.9 peg 24
5th andy france 43.8 peg 31
6th tom thick with an all silvers net of 25.14 on peg 5 using caster at 14 mtrs
2nd in silvers was jason (stumpy)radford with 15.1 on peg 35