Landsend and acorn

Sunday was the first round of Landsend fishery individual winter league, only 20 booked in, but with several matches being rearranged bue to lock down and tier restrictions it was always going to happen, damn you covid, anyway mike did the social distancing draw and pulled out peg 32 for me, certainly one of the better pegs at the fishery, its a corner peg on the speci lake so there is a long right hand margin to go at, an ideal left handers swim 😁.

Three rigs assembled, a dobbing rig for along the bank, a depth rig for along the same bank, a rig for meat in open water, nice and simple, no need for a silvers rig as its a ten peg section, so carp were definitely needed to do well, company today was merv clark to my left, and opposite was dave (beany) westcott, so nice company. I had a few Landsend legends in the section aswell, but they were definitely on inferior pegs so i shoukd be ok 👌. back to my swim and occasionally its possible to catch along the bank at a sensible distance, but ive fished the peg several times and found the need to go up to the trees to catch.

The match got underway and I started dobbing a piece of punch along the bank, and it was no suprise to me that i never had a proper bite until i got to 14 mtrs, first carp about 7lb in the net, two and a half hiurs in and i had 7 in the net, and that was my.lot, no more bread bites, i tried feeding a bit of meat, in the open water and along the edge but apart from a couple of lost foulers i couldnt get another fish, i am fairly sure that i had stuck with the bread till the end i would have had a couple more, but i cant keep my hands out of the bait box, over on 36 dan pither was fishing a tidy match, fishing bread or maggots along the far bank to end up with 14 carp and a lake and match win with 94.15, well done, and as he was standing in for martin pettiffer as a reserve , martin is off to a good start.picture of the winner and the weigh shhets below, without doubt it was rock hard in some areas, that will change, and looking at results from other fisheries it was a difficult weekend for many anglers.

Monday and i was down at acorn for the fortnightly knockup i run, with the forcast for lots of rain it was going to messy, every fishery seems to have a mud issue at the mo, but that cant be helped, no point in moaning about, just crack on.got the draw done, or so i thought, only thought 12 were fishing , wrong, 13 were in attendance, so the dreaded call for a redraw went out, i never drew in the first draw, but was happy for trig to pull out peg 5 for me second time around, bread dobbed along the far bank has been accounting for a lot of fish at this venue, so thats how i started, three lost foukers in the opening 15 minutes, then one landed correctly hooked, but no more bites , tried maggot over there aswell but only small roach seemed to be interested, so after a couple of hours i decided to go for some silvers as no one at this stage was catching to much, so i fed caster and maggot on three lines and kept rotating around, the best swim was topset and three where i had four good tench with some nice roach and a few skimmers of varying sizes from 4 to 12 ounces, the two other lines , one at 13 mtrs to the left in open water and the other at topset and three to my left just past the corner of the island, the two latter areas only produced a few roach and skimmers, i was suprised i never hooked any carp on any of the silvers line, apart from a tail hooked one which came off at the net, most peolke started catching towards the end with trig over on 11 without doubt doing the best, catching well on maggot to his left down the middle, and he did indeed win with 67lb, i managed to win the silvers with 27lb, enjoyable bit of fishing. And the rain set in with a vengeance half an hour from the end , and for the duration of the weigh in, thanks to ray cooper for doing the weigh sheet ,sheet below,no other pictures as it was a tad to damp to get the phone out.