viaduct float only match

21 fishing today so we had the use of the match lake and 64 to 73 on lodge, as i thought lodge would take all the money i decided to pay out one overall then 3 sections of 50 quid and 3 silvers, one in each section, so everyone had something to fish for, and it seemed to work out ok. i let tom mangnal draw for me and i ended up on 70 lodge lake , which is halfway up on the left hand bank, and the gusty wind was slightly off our backs and left to right, with 66 and 73 in both end pegs on the bank with lots of cover, and with paul elmes on 66 and bela bakos on 73 it was always going to be hard , for company i had northern exile martin lenaghan on 71 and mosella,s very own towie star barry(reemed)fitchew on 69. i didnt set up loads today , a margin rig to fish caster each side but it was never used, a 4x12 impact 6 for banded 6 hard pellet over loosefed 4,s at 14 mtrs straight out and a wag rig to fish 8mm pellet out towards the middle, at the start i cupped in some 4,s on the pole line and fired some 8,s out in the middle, by the time i had finished feeding bela was already playing a carp he had hooked fishing down towards the tree in his margin, i missed a bite first drop then had to wait about 10 mins till i hooked my first skimmer of about 2lb, both barry and martin each side of me had begun on the wag and were both missing bites, so as neither of them had landed anything i stuck on the pole, catching skimmers on hard pellet, i tried an 8mm on the hook and the bites got better so i stuck with the bigger pellets in the band whilst still feeding 4,s with a catapult, by the halfway mark i thought i had about 30lb of skimmers and 4 smallish carp, bela had 5 carp and barry had 3, martin was doing his usual of losing more than his fair share , so as far as i could tell i was probably winning the lake by the halway mark, the only person i couldnt see was paul elmes on 66, but i could see some ripples coming from his peg so i new he had had a few, the 4th and 5th hour were spent on the wag where i had another 9 carp, but the last hour i couldnt catch on the wag so i kept swapping between the pole and wag but it wasnt until the last 20 mins that i had another few skimmers on the pole, so by the end i new it was going to be close between me and bela as he had 15 carp to my 13 but my silvers may just sway it, but it wasnt to be as bela weighed 129lb for first on peg 73
2nd was me with 126.13 which included the top silver weight of 38.9 peg 70
3rd paul elmes 88.2 peg 66
4th martin lenaghan 64.13 peg 71
5th steve skelton 60.12 peg 64
6th barry fitchew 59.3 peg 69
so as it turned out all the weights came from lodge as i half expected so the decsision to pay section rather than straight overall,s was probably the best option as the match lake fished hard with the top weight being 37.10 by tom mangnal on 43.
next sunday i am running a match at cilton trinity on wildmarsh lake so ring me at the shop to book in 01179517250