landsend lge rnd 4

back to a random draw today as its the 4th of 6 matches, so mat(shrimphead )tomes drew for me and handed me 34 which is a reasonable peg on the speci lake at the end of the island and one out of the corner, i drew for mat as he was helping with the draw and i gave him 28 which is on the far side of the speci ,halfway along the island, and not so good this time of year(he he he). at least i had avoided the long walk to lake 3(johns water) where the gale we were forcast would be at its worse. back to my p[eg and to be honest it can be a good silvers as well as carp peg , so i set up a 4x14 with a 16 6313 on .12 for soft pellet ovewr micros at 13 mtrs another rig of the same size and line but with an 18 for caster at 14 mtrs at the bottom of the island shelf and a 4x12 for on top of the island shelf with a 16 on .14 .
on the whistle i cupped in some soaked micros at 13 mtrs ,some casters at 14 at the bottom of the shelf and a mix of caster, pellet and dead mags on top of the shelf in 3 spots allong the far side. my match started well with a chub, a skimmer and 2 carp in the first hour which was more than anyboby else as far as i could see. anton page was doing ok on 32 fishing for silversgetting small roach with the odd good perch. just over an hour in i went up the far shelf with a piece of corn on, which resulted in a 1 1/2 lb chub but that was it over there with no more bites so i fed a bit more and dropped down the shelf into the deep water at the base of the shelf, and i started getting bites straight away from small roach good perch and a couple of chub and by rotating round the swims i kept bites going all day with some good perch from the far side with several going over 2lb, i had 2 more carp from the 13 mtr line one on corn and one on maggot ,both in the mouth aswell and another on double caster on top[ op the shelf by the island, when the scales arrived my 5 carp went 34lb and the silvers went 24lb for a lake win and more importantly a section win as i will be missing the next round as i,m off on holiday but i,m back for the last round when i will be on lake 3.
the overall match today was won by nick duckett on 19 match lake with 69.13 using pellet at 14.5 mtrs
2nd was me with 58lb which included the top silvers weight with 24lb
3rd paul elmes on peg 24 with 54.11
4th adrian jeffrey 51.15 peg 70
5th mark poppleton with 41.6 peg 41
6th james withers 40.05 peg 68
i will put up the top 10 overall and the top 6 in silvers tommorrow cos i cant be assed and top gear will be on soon and there is a piece of apple crumble with my name on it in the kitchen and thats much more important mmmmmmmmmmmmmm