landsend weds open

with 16 on the bank , again mike let us use the match and part of the speci lake.
roger andoniou was fishing again so i let him draw for me so i ended up on 33 which is in the corner of the speci lake behind the porta cabin, a good draw although it hasnt produced a winner recently but its always in with a good shout. for company i had the owner of bridgwater,s finest wood butchery firm in the shape of mike west, so a bit of banter was going to happen and he would keep me entertained with his lady ga ga songs (but i never heard one all day he must have forgotten them, may be an age thing).
the plan of attack today was feed 6,s and fish 8,s and 6,s over them, rigs today were a deep rig to fish out to the aerater at 16 mtrs , a half depth rig(never used), and a couple of proper shallow rigs , one for 10 to 20 inches and a real shallow rig to fish 6 inches deep against the end bank if they started slurping off the bank.
at the start i began feeding 6,s out to the aerater and along the end bank, after 30 mins on the deck with nothing to show but a 1lb skimmer on banded 8mm i binned that rig never to pick it up again.with a bit of fizzing going on i fully expected to be catching carp shallow but all i could get inittially was roach, it took 30 mins before i had my first carp and during the next 90 mnis i had about 5 mre plus some f1,s but by now the fizzing had stopped which was a bit weird as you cant normally see the float for bubbles in this peg and i wasnt getting a bite from anything, mike next door had a carp early on but was now trying to catch silvers down the middle on a variety of baits from meat through to paste but wasnt really going anywhere, i could see the end of dean malins pole going in and out on 36 but that turned out to be mainly silvers, so i spent the rest of the match up the edge shallow fishing between 6 and 12 inches deep, fishing 6 inches when there were some fish visible and 12 inches when nothing was showing, i ended up with over 20 carp but they were mostly on the small side with the biggest probably only going about 8lb, normally you could expect a few good doubles but not today.
first on the day went to phil(fabio)harding on 21 with 129.8 fishing shallow to the far side
2nd was me with 124.11 peg 33
3rd tom mangnal 114.13 peg 15
4th tom thick 99.3 peg 19
5th dan pither 99.3 peg 1
6th john(turkey)thompson 60.3 peg 40
silvers
nigel bartlett 39.9 with a mixture of fish on peg 11 using chopped worm and caster
2nd dean malin 34.4 peg 36
it fished quite hard today with the weights coming from form pegs who knows why fish can be funny things