shiplate farm on hawthorn and west pools

fairplay to the 22 which turned up today as we were greeted with 1 to 11/2 inches of hard ice, we shouldnt complain really as its the first proper ice this winter, but after letting trigger draw me peg 10 on hawthorn it was still a bit of a shock throwing a 14lb breaker about , but i managed to clear a strip to nearly 12 mtrs which i thought would be far enough as its just about to the bottom of the shelf before the slope to the far side, paul elmes did a really good job with the boat by breaking out peoples pegs who were stuggling a bit, he did offer me but i refused as i didnt think the fish would be up on the shelf(doh).
i made up 1 rig a .3g rig with a middy 6313 size 18 on .10 and at the start i cupped in 5 maggots and 10 micro,s and then waited for a bite, and waited and waited, i cant right about my day as nothing really happened i did get 4 bites but missed 3 and shook a small roach off and suffered my first blank since i cant remember when , but it had to happen sooner or later, there were a few fish being caught on our lake with paul elmes on peg 2 leading the charge ending the match with 6 carp, all caught up the shelf adrian jeffery on peg 1 had 4 and a skimmer and the only other person with more than 1 was steve evans next to me who had 1 on bread and 1 on corn just fishing
his topset .
west pool was the place to be with craig(trigger )edmunds on peg 11 with 41lb all caught up on the shelf towards the end
2nd was kev molten on 15 west pool with 40.9
3rd rich lacey peg 6 west pool 27lb
4th sean townsend 7 west pool 23.13
5th paul elmes peg 2 hawthorn 23.3
6th andy bryant 12 west pool 14.4
silvers went to rich lacey with 12.2 of mainly skimmers at 8 mtrs on maggot
bob gullick struggled to find the venue this morning as his sat nav had him in the wrong place so he phones me to double check the post code which is bs24 0ny and he asks is that a zero or a nought i thought it was one and the same but his trotters indipendant traders tom tom obviously aint got a 0(zero nought)button , but he did manage 3rd on the lake so the 35 quid he won he can now afford to update his tom tom and he may even be able to find his way home.
OH YES AND DID I MENTION I BLANKED