viaduct 5,s round 4

with me drawing us rubbish pegs it was decided that ron hardiman would do the team draw for us today, which he duly did and i ended up on 26 on spring, not a draw you would want on past form in this series, there is a bush to the left at 14 mtrs which does throw up the odd carp but it had only produced one so far in this series, and with vince brown on peg 1 fishing back to the same bush i didnt think either of us would get one as it was a bit of an overkill by the bush, but i set up a 4x14 rig on .16 with a xedion 18 on to fish maggot and caster over caster feed by the branches.
i also set up a 4x16 rig to fish for silvers at 16 mtrs at 11 and 1 over groundbait with an 18 6313 on .10.
on the whistle i cupped in 2 balls of my dedicated skimmer g bait(christ that makes me sound like mike nicholls lol)at 11 and 1 and cupped some casters down to the bush, shipping out to 16 mtrs at 1 o,clock first drop produced a 12oz skimmer, nice start, and that set the trend for the rest of the match really as i caught steadily right through the match on the 16 mtr line with skimmers from 3oz to 3lb on single caster or maggot with a 4 inch hooklength with 2 x no10,s just off bottom i had a lot of positive lifters which are nearly impossible to miss, as the wind and tow increased i did move the shot a bit further away .
i did get a 1 1/2lb perch at 5 mtrs on caster but down the edge was the expected waste of time with only a 5oz rudd and the other side of the bush only produced a small roach for vince, by the end i reckoned i had over 30lb of skimmers and with josh garrett on 19 having the most carp on the lake with 3, i had probably done enough to win the lake, fred roberts on 24 had about 25lb of skimmers. the scales turned up with fred to weigh first and he put 26.13 on the scales then there was 15lb on 25 . i must admit i was pleasently suprised when i lifted my net out as it felt like it was over 40lb, in fact it went 43lb which gave me a lake win and first in the silvers, and to say i moaned about the peg was a bit of an understatement, but it just goes to show , every peg has its day, it was a good job the skimmers decided to move away from there usual haunt which is on 16 to 19 and the carp shut up shop as well.
the match was won by steve seagar with 105.8 on peg 99 with popped up bread onm the lead
2nd tom mangnell 96.7 peg123
3rd paul greenwood 87.10 peg110
4th tony creech 77.2 peg 115
5th steve jackson 65.2 peg 113
6th james knight 60.6 peg 128
silvers
1st tony rixon 43lb peg 26
2nd fred roberts 26.13 peg 24
3rd mark broomsgrove 24.5 peg 9
4th vince brown 19.4 peg 1
tems on the day overall

viaduct 71 garb bmvmg 214
garb bmvmg 64 silverfox 213
somerset angling 212
silver fox 58 mv red 209
somerset majik 57 viaduct 209
mv red 52 westerliegh 181
thyers 49 jinx 176
mv blue 49 allstars 172
somerset angling 47 avon angling 171
avon angling 46 mv blue 170
keyford 41 keyford 157
westerliegh 40 somerset majik 146
langport 39 thyers 138
allstars 36 amigos 121
select 35 langport 109
jinx 34 megabait 102
amigos 29 select 101
megabaits 21