weds landsend match and speci lake

we had 17 again today so mike duckett let us use both lakes , so plenty of room for all, mike drew for me and i ended up with 33 which is in the corner(no change there then)at the bottom of the steps behind the hut, going back a month or so it was the peg to draw as you could catch shallow out by the aerater as well as on the deck and up the edge, but its gone off the boil a bit , but i still expected a few, with a strong southerly wind forcast i decided not to go to the aerater as its now 17 mtrs as the new platforms arent finished yet so you have to fish off the bank, so i decided to only go 14mtrs so it would be relativly easy. i set up a caster rig for 4mtrs up the edge , a 4x14 with a 18 6313 on .12. the same size rig for out at 14 mtrs and 14 mtrs up the edge as its the same depth 18 inches out from the edge again with the same hook and line and a 4x12 for 2/3 depth up the edge as the carp sometimes come up a bit again on the same line and hook.
at the start i cupped in some soaked micro,s at 14 in front and against the edge and started feeding caster at 4 mtrs down the edge. i fully expected a bite first drop but 30 mins later i was still waiting, 4 and 6 soft pellets a piece of corn even single caster , nothing , so i pulled the rig into the edge and it was pretty much the same there , but on the hour the float did go under and a 4lb winged carp was soon in the net, but that was it, no more bites, a look at 4mtrs on caster produced 2 perch and 2 roach before that line dried, back out to 14 mtrs in front , nothing , into the edge and an f1 graces the net but i just couldnt get a bite again after that, the gimp over on 31 was catching silvers on his normal 6 mtr caster attack as was ray white next door on 34, so at the halfway mark, i decided to forget the pellet and carp attack and start feeding casters on both the long lines. the straight in front line was still a no no but the 14 mtr edge swim started to give up some good perch, so basiccally i stuck with this line right to the end fishing tight in on the deck and off aswell and i caught some good perch to nearly 3lb on double caster in bursts right to the end, by the end i thought i had about 25lb of silvers but ray next door had been catching some nice skimmers for the last 2 hours on soft pellet and the gimp kept adding some perch to his net plus we didnt know how the match lake was fishing. as it turned out the match lake was the place to draw as the top 4 came off it with tom thick winning off peg 7 wiht 13 carp for 73.2 on his normal soft pellet over micro,s. these wednesday matches are turning into the tom thick roadshows, fairplay to him, i cant believe he hasnt got a sponsor,
2nd alan oram 68.3 on peg 20
3rd phil(fabio)harding 44.12 peg 22
4th ed wynne 38.5 peg 1
5th tony rixon 36.13 peg 33
6th mike west 32.8 peg 38
silvers
tony rixon 27.8
john bradford 23.13
ray white 22.15