wet and windy landsend

well with 23 booked in we were spreading over the match and speci lake so plenty of room for all, only one cried off due to the weather but i dont really blame him cos we had to be a bit mad to be out in it, driving to the fishery there were several trees down in the fields and lots of branches on the roads, it was a bit wild ,
i let tom mangnal draw for and i ended up on peg 7 on the match lake, its a swim i like and have done well off it in the past, i thought i would get a bit of protection from the wind as it was a north easterly so i might be off my left shoulder, but it seemed to be hitting the island and channeling up our side of the lake, luckily its only 13 mtrs wide here so the far bank option was still there but it would be hard, so i set up the 4x8 rig with a 18 b960 on .16 for over there and a .5g rig for caster and soft pellet down the middle for caster and 4 mtrs for soft pellet, the closest angler to me was shaun townsend on 5 and i was going to have to watch paul elmes over on 19 who for some strange reason had flat water to the island , it really was a strange wind .
at the start i cupped in some casters at 8mtrs ,some soaked micro,s at 4mtrs and began firing 6,s to the island, starting on the caster i hooked 3 carp in the first 3 drops landing 2 and losing one, then it went quiet so i cupped some more casters in and had some perch and a good skimmer, then nothing again so more casters go in and i get another carp and a f1 then nothing again ,so more casters go in and apart from another skimmer that line all but dried up(which was more than the weather was doing).
the soft pellet line never gave me a single bite which was unusual, shaun on 5 was catching silvers well on caster at 10 mtrs and paul elmes on 19 was slaying the carp on pellet over to the island, i couldnt see anyone else doing very well so i went over to the island for most of the remainder of the match fishing a banded 8mm over loose fed 6,s, it was hard to control the rig but by the end i had managed 10 more carp and lost a few foulers due to the rig blowing into the fish, i reckoned on 70 odd pound which was never going to beat paul on 19 but i may just sneak into the frame, it all depended on how the speci lake fished, i dont want to sound to bitter and twisted (LOL) but by the end of the match paul was putting his rigs into places in his swim that he hadnt even fed and the float was burying, putting that asides he did really well ending up with 168.12 taken on a mixture of pellet and meat to the island and meat at 6mtrs
2nd alan oram 114.10 peg 34
3rd lee trivett 86.5 peg 29
4th tony rixon 84.9 peg 7
5th phil(fabio)harding 81lb peg 36
6th shaun townsend 55.6 peg 5 (i really must get him and steve kedge a direct debit set up for the quid side bets)
silvers
nick collins 46.4 on peg 40 a nice mixed bag of f1,s perch, roach and skimmers