Landsend mini festival

Baxk to Landsend fishery again for there three dayer, a nice few days fishing in some good company, and russ peck, (all will become apparent), gary Anderson and rachel seem to be enjoying it, and i know they have a few.plans for the fishery which sound very good, so heres to a bright future for the fishery. Judith and me spent the weekend in a nice little self catering converted barn, just on the outskirts of wedmore, so a five minute drive to the fishery in the mornings, plus its always nice to have a few days away with wifey. 31 fishing over the three days, so a nice number. Mike and ade did the social distancing draw, and i wasnt to disappointed to see mike pull me out peg 9, shallow narrow, with a shallow island shelf to fish on, and some deeds.to fish against aswell, and a nice margin to my right. Ive had a nice day, started.short on the meat for one bite and a skimmer, that was.the only bite i had on meat, nothing at all in the margin, all my fish came from across on the isalnd shelf in 8 inches of water, or slightly to my right in front of the reeds in 2 foot of water, all on pellet, i ended up.winning the lake with 110lb, weigh sheets below.

Day two and lake three , again mike did the draw and pulled me out 51, again a nice peg with some nice features, i set up a rig for against the island where it was the same.depth as down the middle, a short meat rig, a margin rig for the left hand side, a short meat rig, another against the island to the left where a bank collapsed a few years.ago leacing a nice 12 inch shelf to fish on, and as i had plenty of room to my left i set up a waggler to fish meat up through the middle. I began short on meat again, but it was no good, not even a tremble, so ver to the island for one fouler, duly landed of course.with fish showing drown the margin i decided to have a go, it was a bit earlier than i like for going down the edge, but waving tails are hard to ignore.

I haf a couple but they were really sketchy, backing off really quickly, so i came.off that and had a chuck on the wag, bugger me i had one first chuck, but apart from a couple of liners that was my only one, over to the collapsed bank and i had a few, but the last couple of hours i spent down the edge, it was difficult as the water was quite clear, and i think these fish could see or sense something wasnt quite right, the best way to get a bite was to fish over depth and pull the rig in against the bank so hopefully the fish woulnt touch the line, i ended up with 128lb to win the lake for the second day, so me and bob gullick were on two lake wins going into day three, weigh sheets below for day two.

Into day three and i really need to be on 31/32/33 or 34, Mike did me well by pulling me out peg 33, russ peck on 34

, craig challingsworth on 32 and stu barnett on 31, three of us carp fishing ad stu going after silvers to cut a long story it has been a real struggle, it was a nip and tuck affair between myself and russ, it went right down to the last couoke of minutes, russ landing a carp a coupke of minutes before the end and me losing one in the end bank roots system, i also lost one of the big commons which go about 18lb about an hour from the end, after playing it carefully, had it to the net twice , but the hook pulled as i got it to the net at the third atempt, i must admit that i haf a bit of the chris davis Tourette s moment and called it a very rude name a couple of times as i new then it would probably be costly, and it was as russ beat me by just iver 3lb, which meant as bob gullick won his section from peg 13 , so russ,s late carp and my.two losses i ended up second on the lake and second overall, still not complaining, well done bob , and thanks a bunch russ, LOL 😂. Weigh sheets below , and as soon as i can get a copy of the overalls i will put it on .

Well done to everyone at the fishery for a nice smoothly run affair, even gary has found his true vocation, he has been taught how to work a toaster and he did a good job on that, rachael,s breakfast was a 4.8 and the food that was laid on after was top notch, and lastly well done to all who attended, a nice bunch of people, even russ peck had his moments. And a spexial thanks to judith who has had to put up with me over the weekend, especially my occasional bad language, X