landsend weds

19 turned up today so yet again mike let us spread over match and speci so we all had plenty of room. i let the wednesday newby(stuart stevens)draw for me, and he handed me peg 1, its a peg which gives you plenty of options, but i think it often pays to just concentrate on a couple of areas, so with that in mind i set up a 4x14 rig to use towards the island with an 18 6313 to .10, and the same rig would do to use at 14 mtrs towards the far bank at 2 o,clock and under the tree at 3mtrs to my right, and a 4x10 rig on .12 with a 16 6313 to use up the edge in 2 ft of water with caster.
at the start i cupped in some soaked micros at 14mtrs towards the island and 2 o,clock, some casters up the edge at 13 and 16 mtrs and began feeding some under the bush to my right.
first put in by the island with a 4mm soft pellet and i had a good f1 of about 1 1/2 lb next drop and i hooked a carp which came off when i had it down to the topset,i had a few more f1,s in rthe next hour then it went quiet, so i refed and went to the 2 angle and had some good skimmers and another f1 and 1 carp. at the halfway mark both the island and 2 angle dried so i refed both lines and went under the tree with single caster, and found myself attached to an 8lb carp, it took me about 5 mins to land it on the light gear,but its not a race at this time of year, and apart from a couple of small perch that was the end of the margin action, all this time martin lenaghan on peg 7 was hooking carp fishing long up to his right as there was 3 empty pegs that way and the fish seemed to be happily sat there away from any commotion, and he was catching on corn and 6mm soft pellet over micros.
i now went up the edge on double caster and began getting some reasonable perch, i also lost a few cos i think my elastic (double 8)was a bit harsh, i prefer softer elastic for perch but with a good chance of carp on this line that would have been a recipe for disaster. i did get 2 more skimmers and another carp on the 2 angle but the small roach had turned up and begun to nibble the pellet so most of the last 2 hours were spent down the left picking off odd perch and carp, it seemed to be fishing ok as far as silvers go but the carp were having a bit of an off day with only martin on 7 hooking them but he lost more than he landed but he,d done enogh as he weighed 91.10 for a comfortable win, fairplay to martin as he has been doing ok of late meaning he must be right up there in the top 5 with shrimphead(mat tomes)
2nd went to the the thatchers transexual tom thick with 64.4 on peg 31 with 3 good carp down the edge in the last 20 helping him out
3rd was me with a silvers and carp total of 57.2
4th ed wynne 39.4 peg 19
5th phil harding 30.3 peg 35
6th martin pettifer 28.11 peg 15
silvers
tony page 33 lb on peg 40 with some early perch up the edge and then some good skimmers and f1,s at 17 mtrs towards the island on soft pellet