gary wall memorial match, landsend fishery

22 booked in today but with only 21 paid by the time the draw was ready i made the decision to leave all 22 in instead of taking one out just in case jim was running late, but guess what he didnt come , me and other match organisers must be getting pretty pissed with no shows , i dont mind if i get a call or txt on the morning of the match as sometimes there may be a good reason as to why they dont come but its nice to know so the pegging can be altered so as no no gets to much room. and i had a pretty bad day on the bank aswell.
on a brighter note it was good to see tim ford back on the bank after a 5 month lay off, he seems to be well on the mend, and well done paul elmes for making sure he got his kit to peg 7 without tim having to carry anything.
i ended up on peg 22 which is a good peg for over aswell as close on the meat, so what do i do. stick my head up my ass and decide to fish hard pellet at 5 mtrs and paste at 13 mtrs and pellet over, due to the foliage coming off the island i should have left the catty,s in the bag and fed everything through a pot ,cos as soon as i fed with the catty the fish went under the grass and basically stayed there, making them hard the tempt out, i had yesterdays winner on 24 in the shape of bristol river ace lean hubbard who was on only his second outing onto a commercial this year, and with no one walking about who he could tell, he was busy calling and txting all the people on his phone to let them know.
with tom mangnal on 21 , trigger on 19 and tom thick on 18 it was going to be a hard match to do well in, and with 15 left in the hat tom thick seemed to have about 20% of the lake to himself, and he certainly made full use of it , my match never really got going with the 5 mtr line only giving me a couple of carp, 2 skimmers and a tench, pellet there didnt seem to be the way to go especially as tom mangnal was catching good skimmers and carp on meat on that line, aswell as catching carp on pieces of worm over potted caster towards the island, my paste line was a no no as i only got 2 fish from there and niether of them were hooked in the mouth, further up the bank trigger and tom thick were both catching but tom was certainly giving trig a bit of a lesson, and the lesson continued right to the end with tom thick ending up with 35 carp for 197.13 and an easy victory, tom caught on 8mm over toss potted 8,s by the island then on the same down the edge in the last hour
2nd mike west 140.12 on peg 29 on his normal paste attack
3rd craig(trigger)edmunds 129.9 on peg 19
4th tom mangnal 128.4 peg 21, which also included the top silvers weight on the day as his skimmers went 40.01
5th rod wooten 108.04 peg 3
6th alan oram 92.5 peg 13