landsend individual winter league round 3

my turn to be on the speci lake today and i was hoping for a draw on pegs between 31 and 34 so i was quite happy to have 34 drawn for me, a peg with form for carp and silvers as there is a bush opposite which normally holds chub, perch and carp, for company i had the very genial ken rayner on 33 and dave "beany" westcott on 35.
i set up 4 rigs , a 4x12 with an 18 6313 on .10 for caster at the bottom on the shelf towards the bush, a 4x14 impact 6 float for soft pellet at 14 mtrs towards the end of the island , a 4x10 for caster up the shelf on .12 with the 18 6313 hook and a corn rig for on top of the shelf which never produced a bite as far as corn goes.
after feeding all lines i began on the caster rig towards the tree, but it became apparent very quickly that the lake was going to fish very hard as i couldnt get a bite, it took me 15 mins to get my first bite which was a near 2lb perch and by the end of the first hour i had only had 1 more bite which resulted in another perch of about the same size, ken by now had one carp on 33 and beany on 35 was still waiting for his first bite. after 2 1/2 hours i still only had the 2 perch , anton page turned up for a walk round so i went up the shelf on the caster and had 1 small perch and lost another and that was the end of my bites there aswell, i think ken by now had 3 carp, scott puddy over on 31 was catching and losing odd fish , even the gimp on 32 had 3 carp .
with 2 hours to go thing werent looking to good even beany had managed to snare 3 small chub but that was the end to his sport.
the soft pellet line never produced a bite so i went for 2 new lines one at 14.5 mtrs towards the end of the island in about 2 foot of water and a swim by a small bush on the corner of the island , an area which can be very expensive on end tackle as there is a nasty snag there in the shape of netting from the old hay bale, but i had to try something, so i cupped in a few casters on each line , starting on the 14 mtr line i had a chub after about 10 mins so i fed a few casters there and after about 15 mins i had a carp of about 10lb so things were looking up but i was still behind ken , the gimp and scott but at least it was a start, i had another chub off that line so i put some more casters in and got the corner of the island rig out, lowered it in with boudle caster on and within a minute it had gone under and a carp of about 9lb was duley netted, i really needed another carp tok get myself back into conmtention for a money position on the lake as going into the last 45 mins ken had his 4th carp and scott puddy was landing more now, next carp i hooked was was one of the lakes double figure grassies which i played for a while and nearly netted but the hook pulled , i had one more bite at the end of the island which i think was a perck but it fell off on the way back , back to the shallow water and another chub was bagged then a couple of missed bites then 5 mins before the end i hooked a proper lump which took me till 14 mins after the all out to net but i wasnt to dissapointed as it was a 15lb plus common which i thought would propell me to second in the section, the gimp was playing one at the end and he landed his after the whistle but his 4 carp were smaller than my 3 so i thought i had him beaten, also ken on 33 was looking a bit defalted as he had just been moved from 2nd on the lake to 4th and out of the money, he did look miserable. as it turned out scott puddy won the lake with 62.11 off 31 i was second with my 3 carp going 37.8 and my 3 perch and 2 chub went 9.5 for 46.13.
most of the weights came from the match lake with mark poppleton on peg 7 scoring the top weight on the day with 94.14 , about 20 carp on corn
2nd tom thick 82.12 peg 11
3rd scott puddy 62.11 peg 31
4th bob gullick 49.10 peg 13
5th craig edmunds 48lb
6th andy hembrow 47lb
silvers went to paul elmes on 15 with 19.10
i will post the top 10 today or tommorrow and the next match is on the 22nd and its a random draw again