weds open , landsend fishery

16 fishing today so we used the match lake and the carpark bank of the speci, martin lenaghan drew for me today and he handed me peg 19 which is probably the best all year round peg on the lake, the last weds match we had here was won on this peg by anton page with 279lb so hopefully the fish would be obliging today, walking to the peg it looked as though it was going to be a slapping/stalking fish fest as the surface was littered with fish sunbathing or going round in small shoals perhaps thinking of having another spawn, who knows, for company i had mike nicholls on 21 and ray bazeley on 17 , niether of which are far bank long pole merchants as they struggle with the old artheritis, so the far bank was all mine then, not to many rigs today, a meat rig for the margins but i never got it wet apart from plumming up, and a slapping stalker rig which was a j range j13a(i think)which is a fat top bristle float with the spring eye on it making it very strong and at .2 it was an ideal float for throwing around at fish, i would like to say i had an interesting match fishing properly but all i have done for the biggest part of the match was slap the pellet in front of a cruiser and sometimes it would take it and sometimes it wouldnt, i hooked my first carp in under 10 seconds and had 13 by the end of the first hour so it wasnt particularly difficult all you had to do was make sure the pellet landed about 6 to 12 inches in front of the fish and ensure the pole didnt cast a shadow across the fish, and that was my match from start to finish, i fed pellet to the corner of the island but fished most of the match fishing between 8 and 13 mtrs, i didnt go to the island till the last hour when the cruisers seemed to dissapear a bit, and i had a few there so by the end of the match i thought i had about 60 carp in 5 nets with some good fish up to 10lb ish plus some smaller ones aswell, the fish generally average out at just over 5lb but the few bigger fish may make the difference as the venue record stands at 342lb caught by anton page off peg 31 last year fishing the same way, i didnt really have a clue as to what weight i had except that it was over 250lb and probably more than my previous best of 270lb, so i was more than happy to weigh 351.10 which is the new record for the venue and first on the day
2nd anton(ex record holder)page 227.13 peg 31
3rd dean malin 161.3 peg 5
4th tom thick 158lb peg 24
5th martin lenaghan 129.5 peg 11
6th dave roper 100.13 peg 15
silvers
anton page 28lb, f1s and chub on pellet to the far side peg 31