Mut calpin,s canal snake lake league, rnd 1

Landsend fishery was.the venue for this match, all three lakes being used, luckily lillypool cafe opened up a bit early for us ,a nice breakfast 4.85, hot qiuck tasty and served with a smile, got to the fishery and paid my pools, 36 booked in , one no show so only 35 fishing, mut and gary got the social distancing draw underway, and when my name was called ,peg 13 was called oit as my home for the day,it had won the match the day before. And it has had some good form lately, the peg not drawn today was on my right , dead handy , and alvin jones and debbie were next along on 16, and opposite I had allan oram on 11, other than that I couldn't see anyone else.

The peg has lots of options, a left hand end bank to fish along, ut there is a large lump of foliage which stops you being able to fish along there properly, an island which is 17mtrs away, but has a nice shallow shelf which these fish like when the weather is warm.

And lastly a nice right hand margin towards empty peg 14, russ caught a few short in the margin the day before, so i would try that but also had a mind to go a bit further down if they never showed there.

So rigs made.for all those areas, plus a mugging rig, just in case , and a meat rig for topset and two. I started.on the meat line, gave it 45 minutes, but nothing to show for my efforts, so swung a rig into the right hand margin and had a small carp, but that was my only fish from that line, there were plenty of fish along that end bank but due to the bushy tree it was impossible to get at them, i did try feeding my side of the tree, but never saw any life at all, across to the island , and another small carp was netted, so nearly two hours in and i had two carp for 5lb. So at thjs stage.i was probably last in the section, but i kept feeding all lines and more fish began to appear against the island, so i started to put a few fish together, the short margin line never produced, ut u did get some down towards the pallet on 14, to say it got torrid is an understatement, i was catching some but losing more as they were making a bolt for freedom inder the pallet and around the legs, iv always known it but this just confirmed it , carp are a dam sight quicker than me😂😂😂😂. giing into the last hour and i felt i was now well back in contention for the section, judging by the bankside banter i coud hear, now the meat line started bubbling a bit so the last hour was spent on that , and i did get some better carp, so by the end i thkught i had 95lb, till i moved my nets the i knew i had over 100lb, in fact i ended up with 115.8, which won the lake and was good enough for second in the match, which was won by dave romain up on 58 lake three with 130lb, sona good start.to the league, its Summerhayes in a fortnight, should be ok, off to Landsend fishery this weekend for the three dayer, judiths coming with me and we are staying in.wedmore, will be nice the accommodation looks good. weigh sheets below.