landsend individual winter league last round

i was going into this last match in the series in the lead so a good draw on lake 3 was needed, i let pete nurse draw for me and he handed me peg 61 which isnt one i would have picked, but in previous round it has thrown up some fish but not normally enough to do much damage section wise, and to make matters worse tom thick who was the only one who could beat me was on peg 33 on the speci lake which is nearly the most consistent peg on there, i fancied my peg when i got there as i had forgotten how much room i had , but you cant go to far down the edges as there are tree,s at 3 mtrs each side so i set up a 4x10 rig with a trusted xedion size 16 on .16 for the margins, a 4x12 for banded pellet tight to the island in 2 1/2 foot of water, and a soft pellet rig (4x12) for 13 mtrs, i didnt bother with a shallow rig as i wasnt sure the carp would come up !!!!.
at the start i cupped in some micro,s in front at 13 mtrs and at 10 and 2 angles, threw a big handfull of casters into each margin with a few grains of corn and started firing 4mm hard pellets to the island, first drop at 13 mtrs and the float kept going and a 1lb fi was in the net, the next 45 mins were a pain as the small roach moved in, but by now i could see some movement against the island, so its off the box and a shalllow rig was put together and it didnt take long to get the first carp into the net, so that was the end of the soft pellet line , i had odd carp off this line for the next couple of hours then disaster the sun broke through and the bites stopped, i did catch one good fish down the edge but lost 2 and snapped a no 4 in the process, the lake seemed to be fishing well as paul haines on 58 was catching well off the island and down his edge but the sun seemed to put paid to his sport aswell, by the end i had 15 carp but paul had 13 so it was going to come down to who had the biggest average size, paul weighed first and put 77.01 on the board which i thought would be enough to beat me , and it was as mine went 72.11 , but second on the lake was ok ,it just depended on how tom had done, unfortunately his peg had a bit of an of day as he only managed 77.11 for 7th on the lake !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so my 10 pt total was enough for first and a 300 quid pick up
2nd craig edmunds 14 pts (334.3)£200
3rd tom thick 14 pts (282.5) no overall money as he was top silvers over the series and its one prize one person
4th dale howsen 17 pts £100
kev molten 19pts (258.6)£60
nick duckett 19 pts (177.8)FA
steve seager 19 pts (160.01)FA
SILVERS
tom thick 8.5 pts £200
alan oram 9pts £100
RESULTS ON THE DAY
graig edmunds 105lb peg 32 on hard pellet up the edge
mark poppleton 95.13 peg 34
nick duckett 93.14 peg 15
mike west 93.3 peg 31
paul elmes 90.8 peg 29
bela bakos 87.8 peg 27
SILVERS
nigel bartlett 41.10 peg 35 mainly chub ,perch and skimmers on caster
ther speci lake was definatly the place to be, the complex fished really well with me coming 11th on the day with 72lb, taking names for next year on the same dates so book early to avoid dissapointment