float only lge rnd 1 viaduct fishery

40 fishing the league again this year , eith a few , faces on last year,  we had 20 on cambell and cary and I didnt really mind where I drew, I think tim clark drew for me and handed me 88 which is the pretty bush peg on the top bank on cary, its been a consistent peg over tje last few weeks so I was happy, I had John "the gimp"bradford on 87, who never fishes for carp as they pull to hard and steal his rigs, so he would be targeting the silvers, dead handy. And rich lacy on 90, but with the wind blowing out of his corner he was always going to struggle. The rest of our bank was taken up with shaun townsend on 86 and joe mcmahon on 85 .
rigs today were a wag to fish pellet on the deck, a deep pellet rig for the pole at 14 mtrs and a shallow slapping/stalking rig , and a 5 mtr meat line rig( never used),
At the start I began on the deep pellet rig at 14 mtrs, but it was a bit slow , in the first 45 mins I had 1 carp and a couple of skimmers, but joe on 85 had already had 3 crap shallow,  so I went out with the shallow doins , and to cut a long story short apart from 1 carp on tje wag and 2 on tje deep pellet rig , the rest oof the match was spent fishing shallow,  I did get a few stalking but the bulk of my weight came feeding and fishing shallow with banded 8mm pellet over loose fed 8,s, I ended the match with 17 carp and a few skimmers, the same as joe so it was to close to call, the fish average out at 10lb or just over so I thought I may be pushing 170lb,  the fishery still has its normal 70lb net limit , but before if you went over 90lb in a net, that net was cancelled,  steve has now reduced that to 80lb,  so be warned.today I had 2 nets with 6 in and one net with 5, and that was ok,
when the scales got to my peg I was pleased to see my catch go 187lb which was enough for first on tje day so a good start to the series with the all important section win,
2nd and a cou9le of better fish short was joe mcmahon on 85 with 167.5
3rd gary o shea on 128 with 151.7
4th craig edmunds on 79 with 146.8
5th steve seager on 118 with 138.7
6th bib gullick on 129 with 137.9
silvers
scott russell on 94 with 46.10 , with an all pellet and meat caught net of skimmers
2nd tim clark over on 123 with 43.6
just a quick mention for shaun townsend who had a bad day , snapping the 11 mtr section on his pole,  luckily trig edmunds had a spare, also having his ass severely tuned by  young joe off the next peg and lastly having to give me another quid,  making that 15 on the trot,  I, m thimking about going to windmill, just to give him a chance to win a pound back,