landsend sunday open match and speci lake

this was the reserve date for the individual league so as it wasnt used there was an open run instead. not to bad a turnout with 26 fishing, fabio drew for me and i ended up on peg 5 , i havnt been on this peg for a long time so i was looking forward to the day, yet again i was next to shaun townsend , thats the third time in three matches where we have fished , i had peg 4 empty and shaun had 7 free so it would be interesting, there was a small sweeep on the lake the day before and that was won on 15 bt mike west on corn then paste towards the end, also there were 2 weights over 60lb of silvers so it would be interesting as to whether the silvers would feed the same today , i had my doubts as there had been a frost and it was very bright, i set up a 4x14 with an 18 6313 for soft pellet at 4 and 11 mtrs, and a 4x16 caster rig for down the edge, but i only tried it once and didnt catch so i wont be mentioning that again, and i set up a 4x10 rig to fish hard pellet to the island, so that was on .16 with a 16 b960 hook for banded pellet, luckily for me i had nick collins opposite on 19 and he was going to mainly targetting silvers so hopefully the carp would come round the island to me, at the start i cupped in some soaked micro,s at 11 mtrs threw some to 4 mtrs and cupped in some 6,s by the island, the first two hours were spent on the 2 soft pellet lines where i had some nice skimmers and f1,s plus 3 carp, but after the two hours the lure nof the island got the best of me and i was soon shipping out with a banded 8 on, i had been feeding with a catty all the time , and i was a bit suprised not to get a bite straight away, in fact it took about 15 mins to hook my first carp, but after that i caught fairly steadily up to the end ending up with over 20 carp, but with many of them being on the small side (2 to 3lb) i was admitting to 80lb by the end, fabio on 22 thought he may just have 100lb and trigger on 26 was admitting to over 100lb so i was looking at 3 rd best, in the end craig edmunds won with 134.14 of speci lake 26, catching carp on hard pellet fished to the corner of the island his catch also included 28lb of silvers
2nd was me with 112lb(so i lied a bit)on peg 3
3rd phil harding 102lb
4th leyton palmer 78.15 peg 40
5th adrian jeffery 74.13 peg 15
6th dave roper 72.01 peg 33
silvers
nick collins 42.4 on peg 19 , fishing mainly short with caster and bits of worm
oooh i seem to have missed somebody out of the results, where,s tom thick, oh i remember , he drew 24 and didnt catch much, well that makes a change