float only league, rnd 4 landsend fishery

full turn out of 40 today and i really needed a good draw as a section win was what i needed to keep me in contention for the league plus i was still in the knockout and was drawn against steve seager, i let steve draw for me and he handed me peg 3 on the match lake which section wise was only realistically worth 3 rd in section, that is unless i get a silvers angler each side on 1 and 5, but no such luck as tom thick was on 1 and even bob gullick on 5 would have to do something really bad not to catch(lol)
at least manged to draw himself a not to good peg on lake 3 (66)so at least my k/o hopes may still be alive.
there seemed to be a few fish on the top in the open water pegs and quite a few in groups following each other which makes you think that another spawning may be on the cards, this weather may be just as confusing to the fish as much as it is to us.
rigs today were mainly pellet rigs, a 4x14 for hard 6,s over loose fed 4,s at 5mtrs with an 18 b960 on .14. a couple of rigs for over against the island ,one for slurpers at 6 inches deep and one for on the deck against the islandboth on .16 with an 18 b960, and a mear fig for the left hand margin by a bush on .16 with a xedion txr 14 on the end.
starting at 5 mtrs on hard pellet after 10 mins i had 1 good skimmer and a carp in the net and by the end of the first hour i had 3 more carp and some more skimmers plus a tench, by now i was already behind bob on 5 who was trying to catch silvers but the carp were getting in the way so he decided to give in and fish for them, tom on 1 was having a temper tantrum and threatening to pack up as he was doing his best to drag the island closer but he soon settled down and began stalking a few and they were better fish so my 3 rd in section was looking like it was a certainty, i stayed on the 5 mtr line till the end of the 2nd hour but the area was now lifeless so a switch to the far side was called for but that was a bit of a non starter, you normally see fish against the bank but there seemed to be only odd fish moving and apart from two lost foulers i couldnt get a bite, a look on the inside meat line ended with a 7lb carp then no more indications , by now tom was ahead as he was getting odd fish shallow and i new bob was dtill catching as he is a right chatterbox when he is catching, also anton page on 19 was sacking and tom mangnal on 21 was getting a few so that seemed like first and second on our lake at least taken care of,
the last couple of hours of my match were spent switching between the far side and the margin meat line getting odd carp and a couple more decent skimmers by the end i had 12 carp and some good silvers but as expected i ended up 3rd in section with tom having 107lb and bob g having 120, i was suprised to have 104lb which included 31lb of silvers which was enough for second in the silvers today and with steve seager dnwing at least i was into the k/o final along with shawn townsend,niel mercer and craig edmunds so up against three draw bag merchants like that a flier peg is going to be needed at the sedges in the next round,
1st on the day was tony page on peg 19 with 279lb of shallow caught carp feeding 6pts of 6mm pellets
2nd tom mangnal 152lb peg 21
3rd bob gullick 120.11 peg 5
4th mike nicholls 116.9 peg 18
5th clayton hudson 107.8 peg 34(again)on worm and caster, which included the top silvers weight of 36.12
6th tom thick 107.5 peg 1
i will get the list of people who are in contention up on here by the end of the week