Float only, landsend fishery.

Full house today, so 40 anglers over three lakes, most people had a bit of room. first though it was breakfast at the fishery cafe, very nice too, 4.8. I had to get 7 reserves in today, which i managed , so thanks to all those who turned up. I got the draw underway on time, i cant remember wgo drew for me but i was handed peg 5 on lake two, happy with that, not to far to the island, but it was a bit overgrown, so no chance of getting in tight, margins not to good, as thwre are lots of lillys, so again no chance of getting to mud and shallow water.

To my right was lee macey, and my right i had the pleasure of craig(trig)edmunds, who is now always difficult to beat.

The lake has been stocked with a fair number of small f1,s and equal sized tench, about 4 to the pound, all catchable on banded hard pellet, so i made up a rig for topset and two, two rigs for hard pellet across, one to fish in a foot of water as tight as i could get in , and the other about 2 foot off in about 20 inches of water, and of course a mugging rig as some fish were mooching about. on the all in i fed some 6mm hard pellet over to the island, but then started short on banded 6mm pellet over hard 4,s, it took a while to get a bite, which was a surprise, then after.a couple of small tench i hooked a carp, only for my elastic to break, so that topkit went up the bank, and i picked up the island rigs, and i stayed on these for the for the remainder of the match, there were plenty of fish against the island, but they were liking the cover of the island weeds a bit to much, but enough were coming out to make it interesting, and to be fair trig and me were fairly even weight wise, then he went down his left hand margin and enjoyed a good run of carp on maggot over groundbait, fairplay to him, oh yes and i nearly forgot to mention i had my no4 break on a good fouled ghostie, so topset gone then. Dont tell judith. I thought i had over 80lb at the end, but new trig had beaten me, as he did as he had 137lb, which was top on the day, and i had 94lb.

2nd was vince shipp on 27 with 127lb, and third was tom mangnal on 13 with 125lb, top silvers went to alvin jones on 68 with 38lb, i only have pictures of lake two and three sheets, somehow never took one of the speci lake, oh well.