Landsend xmas open

A bit of a belated xmas match, but surprising as there have been lots of rearranged events due to covid, i had a breakfast roll booked at the fishery, and very nice to, a 4.75, which is a good score for a takeaway, (well done rachael), mike got the draw underway and pulled me out anothwr corner in the shape of peg40, which is the opposite corner to last week, and not as good as i fulky expected the main shoal of fish to be at the other end, that was occupied by adrian clark on 33 and alan oram on 32, probably no mistakes on those pegs today then. And definitely a case of dejavue as i had dave(beany) westcott opposite me again. I only.set up two rigs, one for bread dobbing along the end bank and the other one for meat at the bottom of the shelf,and out towards the island at 14 mtrs.with the lales full to overflowing i expected to have to contend with some underwater foliage.

At the start i fed some.meat in the two intended meat lines then went out along the edge on the dobbing rig, thus peg haf a bay small bay between 13 and 14 mtrs and with a depth of about 30 inches , it was an ideal place to start.

I was.soon attached.to a nice fish of about 5lb which was soon netted, so a good start, hopefully there were a few about, to give me a chance of the lake win.

I did get another quite quickly after that but i felt there werent to many about, no liners and also no silver fish bites , which the week before were a nuisance, beany opposite soon gave up trying to catch carp which probably didnt help my cause as the carpnalways seem to back off to the quiet water where they are not being targeted, there is a wooden post in the water along the bank in the opposite peg and i saw it knock several times during the match where carp hit or, but i think beany made.the right choice as he was the only one i could see catchimg any silvers I did manage 8 carp during the day, 4 on bread fish half depth, one on meat at the bottom of the shelf and three on meat on top of the shelf at 16 mtrs.

As i thought would happen, adrian up on 33 had a steady day to end up with over 90lb for first on the day, catchimg most of his fish on maggot fished along the end bank, then alan oppsite had 51 to my 50, but i did get the section money by default. The weigh sheets below show how hard its fishing, but looking at other results lots of venues seem to hard at the mo, but i know that the fishery is about to undergo a restocking programme during january which shoukd see an upturn in sport, as ling as we dont go into another lockdown or we are put into tier 4 which would effectively stop competition fishing, we will have to wait and see what boris comes up with tomorrow, weds.30th.