frozen landsend weds open

we had 14 turn up which is a good number considering there was up to 1 1/2 inches of ice on it so the breakers were out again, i began with 2 but after 4 chucks i was left with one as the chain broke and it didnt float so there was no chance of retrieving it.
i fancied a draw at the carpark end of the lake as it was only about 3/4 thick but no i let kev molten draw for me and i end up on 16 which is ok but the ice was at its thickest at this end, for company i had alan(meldrew)oram on 15 and the next agler to my right was tom thick on 18. i set up one rig again today a .3g rig with with an 18 middy 6313 on .10. after clearing a channel to 10 mtrs and to my left to th4e sunken tree between me and alan i plumbed up and was lucky to find the same depth out in front and down to the tree, at the start i cupped a few (20)mags and casters at 10 mtrs and fed a few down towards the tree. starting at 10 mtrs on single maggot i had a bite first put in which was a perch of about a pound,(yay no blank) its amazing that you can make all that disturbance and still get bites straight away, i had a perch and tom was playing his first carp on soft pellet, and he proceeded to catch odd fish all match so it looked like first place was taken from very early on in the match.
most people seemed to be getting bites which was a surprise as the general concensus was that 20lb would be a good weight but that seemed to be going out of the window very quickly. my second bite was from a carp which broke me under the ice as i think i got down to my topset a bit to early . the match for me turned into a bit of a waiting game for bites but when i did it was a reasonable perch and i even had an unseasonal tench of about 2lb, i had a 6lb carp halfway through and another down the edge on the final whistle to end up with 9 perch , 1 tench and 2 carp which was going to be no good in the overalls but i might get some silvers money
as expected from early on tom thick won with a very creditable 12 carp and 1 f1 for 82.5 and a very comfortable win
2nd and a long way behind was retired welsh electrician dave blakemore on peg 1 with 34.5
3rd was rave from the grave gary mewdel with 30lb from peg 3
4th adrian jeffrey 29.3
5th phil(fabio)harding 25.1 on peg 22
6th ed wynne 24.15 peg 12
silvers was me with 8.10 and i pushed the somerset silver ace, nigel bartlett into second with 6.5 on peg 24
my 2 carp went 12.6 giving me 21lb for 7th overall
so really it fished ok with some of the lakes better fish putting in an appearance ,but the silvers didnt seem to want to play ball.
off to viaduct for round 3 of the teams of 5,s on sunday but it may be frozen so the fishery is going to makea descision on friday, but wer have never had one cancelled yet so all those fishing had better be prepared with breaking devices.