weds landsend open

we had the smallest turnout for a while today due to some people having work and family commitments so with only 11 of us we had plenty of room on the match lake, with so few on the lake its always hard to peg as these fish on this venue tend to back off to the quiet parts of the lake and i,m sure they return for a bit of a munch when we have gone home. i let mr duckett draw for me and he handed me peg 24 which wasnt the best draw in the hat as the better fish dont always turn up here and all you can catch are the resident small dark fish that inhabit the end bank snags.
for company i had mike west on 22 and opposite nigel bateman on 1 and due to the foliage that was the only anglers i could see. i set up a couple of meat rigs, one for out in front at 6 and 14 mtrs and one for the margins, both with .16 and a 16 middy 9313 hook, and 2 pellet rigs for up the right hand end bank margin, one 6 inches deep for slurpers and one 4x12 for on top of the shelf in about 2 foot of water.
at the start i cupped in some meat at 6 and 14 mtrs, plus some into the margins and began firing pellets up the margin at 14 mtrs towards the trees.
starting at 6 mtrs i soon hooked a carp of about 5lb which was duly netted, mike on 22 potted his usual kilo of pellets straight in and was finding it difficult to see his float but he did begin to catch a few but they were on the small side. i stayed on the 6 mtr line for a couple of hours , i didnt catch to many fish but they were of a good average size , looking bigger than mikes fish, although he did get one good fish of about 9lb but after netting it he let it jump back out of the landing net and the hook fell out , oh how he laughed, oh no it wasnt him laughing it was me and mike duckett and by the time we had finished extracting the urine he was deffo a bit pissy, after watching a paste angler i think i could do that, all you need to do is keep piling pellet in to ensure the there is enough fizz to make the float hard to see, then dont put any shot on the line to ensure the float sits at 45 degrees and never strike till the float has gone under 3 times, simples.
back in my swim and although there seemed to be fish on the 6 mtr line it was hard to get a bite , the fish came up off the deck i think but in 6 foot of water they are hard to nail down, i went to the 14 mtr line but all that gave me was a lost fouler so no more about that line, a quick foray into the margin and the small roach were there turning cubes of meat into a marble in no time at all, going along the end bank and the first fish did me in the snags, i never moved quick enough, so i tightened down the elastic a bit and threw the pole back as soon as i hooked something , that seemed to work as i never lost another in a snag.
the rest of the matck was spent between the 6 mtr meat line and the end bank pellet line, i did et a couple of good skimmers and ide at 6 mtrs but the sport was never fast and furious, there were odd fish cruising towards the end and 5 minutes from the end i saw 2 good fish out at 13 mtrs on the surface so i swung my margin pellet rig at them and the float went and i had my best fish of the day , a nice common of about 9lb. i had 15 fish plus some silvers for what i thought would go 80lb ish,
adrian clark was admitting to 21 fish and they went 103.10 for first today , he was on peg 7 and caught on banded 6mm against the far bank
2nd martin lenaghan peg 19 95.1
3rd tony rixon 91.5 peg 24
4th mike(put another pot in)west 85.3 peg 22
5th adrian jeffery 83.13 peg 3 which included the top silvers on the day with 23.10
6 ken rayner 46.11 peg 11
still got a couple of spaces for an open at landsend sunday on the match and speci lake so ring me at the shop to book in on 01179517250