Sunday knock up

With the viaduct winter league final match cancelled this week due to the weather,  more importantly the access road being blocked with snow, if it hadn't been for that I'm sure we would have been fishing, with the help of some ice breakers.
Anyway , I sorted a hasty sweep at Landsend fishery and ended up with 11 like minded souls who just wanted to get out after going a bit snow stir crazy.
First though it was a breakfast, today I went to mario,s in stockwood , meeting up with Ron hardiman and Lee waller, also Judith came for the breakfast as she said it was a good one , it was passable but only a 4, I will try it again even Judith said it wasn't as good as normal.
Well off to the fishery, and pulling in it was obviously still covered with a lid, but Mike assured us it was only soft and shouldn't take to much breaking.
Got the draw underway and had the last ticket, peg 11 for me then, very nice to.
Certainly a peg with plenty of form, first job out with the breaker, 10 minutes  and I had cleared a channel towards the island to 13mtrs, I would have gone a bit further but I had a couple of people waiting to use it, Ron hardiman and Andy cranston, Andy did have a breaker but got was a tad light and he was having difficulty getting it through the surface film never mind the ice, he reckons he's a builder, maybe , all I can say is those Lego bricks must be really heavy now, any way my peg was done , and Gary o,Shea took pity on Andy and did his aswell.

A nice channel and the pile of ice, I enjoy ice breaking , and love ice fishing and Landsend is always fairly fair, as you can expect bites in every peg.
Only set up two rigs today, a .3g as5 to fish off the deck with maggots, and a .4g as5, for on the deck, only bait today was maggot, double on a 20 guru f1 pellet book on .12 senses feeling line . On the whistle after feeding a couple of lines at 11 and 13 mtrs I started short at 7 mtrs trying for a mug perch or roach, but to good so after about 15 minutes I went out on the 11 mtr line, and missed a bite first drop,
2nd drop no mistake and carp one in the net, you got to love the colours of these clear water winter fish.

Sport was never fast and furious which is about right for ice fishing, with the water temp probably about 4c they were never going to be crawling  up the line, but I had an enjoyable day, ending up with 6 carp, two roach and an f1 for 39.4,

which was just about top on the day, 2nd went to russ peck on 22 who had top silvers weight on the day with 24.6 of skimmers and two carp giving him 37.10 in total.

Adrian Clark was third off peg 24 with 36.10, so one fish between first and third,
Also Gary o,Shea had a nice day on the silvers with off peg 3 with 23lb, if roach and skimmers.

Not to bad a day really considering we had to break our way in, weigh sheet below.