Landsend Sunday open

Only 18 of us booked in today but mike put us on match lake and one bank of number three, so plenty of room for all, trig drew my peg and handed me number 7, I peg I like but it can be a late starter so it never pays to give up as the last couple of hours can be the best , I had Tim (the occasional angler) on 5 for company , so we would be keeping an eye on each other for the three quid side bet, trouble is when we are pegged next to each other we tend to worry more about how much the other one is catching instead of how well everyone else is fairing , but it makes for an enjoyable day as the banter is always good. Rigs for today were a slapper/stalker( never used ), a meat rig for 5 mtrs , a pellet rig for 14 mtrs to my right in the middle and down to 8 empty pallet, (never had a touch on those lines) and a couple of pellet rigs for over, one tight in and one for about a mtr off.
At the start I fed all lines but decided to begin on the 5 mtr meat line, I have caught well on it in the past at this venue , and sometimes it is possible to catch on it all match, and after 15 mins with 2 decent carp in the net I was beginning to think today was going to be one of those days, but no it was one of those false dawns we seem to suffer from , as after another 30 mins and no more bites I was soon shipping over to the island with pellet, genially it is possible to fish fairly tight to the island , but there is now a small bed of blanket weed. In front of you which was never there before, so although when you plumb up you get the true depth, as soon as you go over with a baited hook, it gets hung up in the weed , hopefully the carp will get rid of it when they spawn, so I had to target an area 15 mtrs to my left to get a clear patch, but it is also shallower than straight across, meaning you could see the fish as they came onto the shelf to feed, but that also means they could see the pole, so I made up a longer rig , but that just makes it harder to work the bait properly and missed bites are a problem, but it was enjoyable seeing the fish feeding and trying to tempt one onto a hook, these landsend fish are proper cagey against the island, they have seen it all !!!!.
As the match progressed it became apparent that the people to beat were trig on 1, bela bakos on 11 and old Father Time mike(silverfox)nicholls on 13, all three were catching differently, trig had had a run of skimmers on pellet during the middle of the match after a relatively slow start but was catching well on meat in the last couple of hours, bela was targeting visible carp against the island , but he had to fish a really long line before the fish would take his bait , and he was suffering with a few foulers which were securing there freedom fairly easily, and mike was doing well on his favoured paste bait fished on his top set down his right hand margin, and as for me and Tim. We had an enjoyable match and by the end it was to close to call as far as the side bet went, we both had just over twenty carp and a few silvers for somewhere just over 100lb
Trig was first to weigh and after admitting to 100lb on his clicker he weighed 147.11, that's as bad as my shout last week at viaduct, shame on you trig. But that was only good enough for second as the wily old silverfox on 13 weighed 159.13.
3rd went to mikes adopted son bela , on 11 with 142.8
4th Paul elmes on 50 with 124.10
5th Anton peg on 42 with 122.8
6th me with118lb
7th Tim Clarke with 111.6 and three quid lighter,
8th Aaron britnell on 41 with 105lb
Silvers
Nigel Bartlett on 21 with 22.13 of late skimmers and a couple of tench which was just enough to ounce out Paul faires on 24 with 21.5, nearly forgot trig also had 22.2 of accidental skimmers aswell