weds open landsend fishery

16 fishing today but we only used the match lake as it fished so well with 15 on it on sunday, the chances of a repeat performance today were unlikely, but you never know.
as roger andoniou normally draws for me we had a bit of a change today and i drew for him and gave him peg 5 so he was quite happy as he tends to draw 24 a lot so it was nice to give him a bit of a change of scenery. after the way it fished after the weekend a draw between 18 and 22 would be nice but ray white pulled me 15 which is ok and shawn townsend had 101lb off it sunday and its always capable of throwing up a good weight be it silvers or carp, for company i had northern exile of 35years, ray bazeley on 15 and cockney reject adrian jeffery on 13, with the weekend slayer anton page drawing peg 10 and looking totally confused about things as it looked as though he may have to actually feed something to encourage fish into his peg and tom mangnal on 8 was doing the same.
3 rigs for pellet, one stalker/slapper rig, a 4x10 for on the deck on top of the shelf against the island and a 4x14 fir 6 mtrs all to fish hard 6,s over loosefed 4,s, and a 4x12 meat rig for the margins.
right on que as the match began the wind picked up making all but impossible for the anglers on the favoured pegs further down the lake to slap there rigs around properly so our more sheltered end was looking better all the time, the first 45 mins were spent stalking/slapping but with very few fish showing it was never going to be method today, i did get 1 and bump one and sneak two more during the match but i dont think there were enough fish at this end to make it viable , also the 6mtr line which can be good for quality silvers was only giving me roach which is always a bad sign and with not even a bubble coming up i can only guess that the skimmers had probably followed the wind and were at the other end of the lake, or they were just being to sneaky for me today.
most of the match was spent against the island, the carp were slurping up the bank but with the sun behind us causing the pole to cast a shadow the fish would dissapear so the deep rig against the island was the best rig , i did hook 5 fish on meat down the edge but lost 3 in a snag with the last one snapping the elastic pulling for a break (.20 is strong), i ended up with 16 carp and a few silvers for what i thought would go about 80lb.
first on the day went to tom mangnal on 8 with 102.10 catching on caster down the edge in the last half of the match, he also had top silvers weight on the day with 22.10 tom lost 7lb for being over the net limit but he didnt need it so nothing lost.
2nd tony rixon peg 15 with 87lb
3rd mike nicholls 79lb peg 1
4th adrian jefferey 70.12 peg 13
5th tom thick 70.5 peg 21
6th nigel bartlett 56.10 peg 24