viaduct teams of 5 round 3

my turn to be on lodge lake today which i didnt mind as it has been fishing well with smalll fish feeding so there was little chance of blanking as most of the lake was frozen , but luckily our team draw put me on peg 57 which is the disabled peg in the corner(not like me to draw a corner) and the last match it produced some skimmers and in both of the previous rounds had 1 carp on it, and it seems to be a one carp peg and it tends to be caught in front of pallet 58 which is never put in, as the aerater had been on my peg was totally free from ice so it was a day off from the breaker, but it was only me and mark harper on 59 had no breaking to do but the other 17 all had to sling the iron in , the start was put back to allow people time to break the lid .
i set up 2 wag rods ,one for caster just past the g bait line at 16 mtrs and one for corn out towards the rope, two pole rigs , one for carp down the edge on .14 with a middy 8313 size 18 on the end, and the other was a .3g on .10 with a size 18 6313 for caster or dead mags.
at the start i cupped in 3 balls with some caster at 16 mtr, some casters to the empty pallet ,and i chucked the corn out towards the rope on the wag(this is a float only section), i fished this for the first 30 mins with no signs of life and by now wayne buckingham on 56 had 3 good skimmers on the pole , so the wag rods were put down never to be picked up again as i was soon catching skimmers at 16 mtrs on single caster over g bait, i also started feeding a 16 mtr line at 10 o,clock angle so as to rest the main catching area, i had a realy nice day catching skimmers right up to the end, i did try the margin a few times and i did catch the usual one carp which was about 10lb but that was the only bite i had down there, i refed at odd times during the match but only when the size of fish seemed to be getting smaller, and by the final whistle i had a look in the net and thought i had 45lb of skimmers so i was a bit suprised when the skimmers went 62.2 and the carp was 10.12 for first overall and first in the silvers and top on the lake for a proper pickup, total weight of 72.14
2nd went to phil(fabio)harding on peg 64 with 68.4
3rd mash 52lb peg 66
4th alex murray 47.13 peg 70
5th mark harper 44.11 peg 59
6th mark brennan 29.15 peg 15
the place to be today was definately lodge lake as the top 5 were on there and the top 3 silvers were also on there
i,d like my peg was absolutley solid
the avon angling teem did ok today 4th on the day and weare now 3rd overall with 2 matces to go. for the full team results check out mike blog, silver fox angling