Landsend winter league

Sunday and it was the final round of the individual winter league, i was going into this match with a 4 point buffer and a bit of a weight advantage, on lake three today and hoping to draw peg 58, as the winds been blowing towards that end for a while now so i fully expected the fish to be holed up against the end bank at that end. But breakfast first , cooked by karen and it was very nice , 4.8. Never get a bad breakfast at this venue. Draw got underway and I was a little #issed to pull out peg 61, its a average peg but very rarely a winning peg, it looks good with a corner of the island to go at, and a nice right hand margin with a bush in the water, rig graveyard to be honest, i had dom sullivan to my left, opposite was russ(i caught 70lb in the last ten minutes) peck, and mike jefferies, up in the corner on the far bank was rich major and on flyer peg 58 was dave ings, who was moaning about being unable to get a rig into the water due to the amount of carp in front of him, and he wanted silvers. The banter and micky taking was a bit relentless, bit good natured. its been a more difficult match on this lake than any of us thought it would be, started short on meat for no bites, went to the island, coupke of liners but no fish, down the edge after two hours and finally a small carp was in the net. Only dave ings was catching, silvers with the odd carp, also dom to my left was starting to get an odd carp, i did get one small carp and a bit of a skabby skimmer from the island, but the ony place i could get any indications was down the right hand margin on meat, i did lose a couple in the bush and had a few liners, but i ended up with 8 small carp and the lonesome skimmer, i turned out i just did enough, dom won on my left with 58lb, dave to my right had 53, and russ late show peck had 41lb , i came 4th on the lake with 40lb, so couldn't be caught, my closest risk was from nick duckett who had ddrawn 31 on the speci lake and weighed in over 190lb, well done . He won the lake obviously but was still 1.5 points behind me so i had held on for the series win and a £400 pickup, that will do nicely, big well done to mike and steve seager for running it , thanks to Rachael and karen for breakfasts and the spread after the match on sunday, and not forgetting ade for his bankside food delivery sevices, and im sure i saw gary occasionally.

as i had won some money i felt i could afford the fuel to go to bridgwater and fish the silvers match at the sedges, another nice fishery breakfast, 4.8 again, cant fault it .24 fishing so 8 on each bank of tile lake and 8 on the high numbers on brick. It was windy so a any peg with a 2 at the start of it would do as the wind would be slightly off the back, but no 26 for me so wind in and across , lovely, wind and tow going the same way, two rigs today, 1g for the 5 mtr line, and a 1.25 for 9 and 13 mtrs, both drennan s7 patterns, hooks today were 18 brennan finesse silver fish pattern on .10, very impressed with these new hooks, strong for the gauge of wire, and good long lasting points. At the start i fed 5 , 9 and 13 mtrs.with groundbait with a bit of caster and very dead pinkies in, presentation was horrendous, the first third of the match was a bit slow, but as it got further in to it things improved, the 13 mtr line was no good, most of the fish came from the 5 and 9mtr lines, some nice skimmers, all on double and single maggot, aswell as some on pinkie towards the end, ended up with 35lb, so not a bad day in the conditions, but only good enough for second as martin tizard over on 19 brick had a realy good day catching 56lb of skimmers mainly on bread at 6mtrs, well done martin. Steve kedge was third with 33lb, as the weigh sheet shows both the lakes have fished well.