LANDSEND INDIVIDUAL WINTERLEAGUE 6th ROUND

SUNDAY 6 MARCH 2010

With a 6 am start to the morning and awaiting the arrival of Matty-TWO PERCH FOR TWELVE POUND-Tomes I was felling quite optomistic about the day ahead.Shrimpead soon turned up and it was off to pick up Nick-BLINKY BLINKER-Collier who really needs to remove his eyes and wring them out properly.Off to the cafe and it was total devastation when we arrived as it was closed,for what reason nobody knows but it better be a F##kin good one,so it was back to the garage for a sausage and bacon baguette with the added bonus of a burn up at churchill lights with the one and only Dave-HAMILTON-Hodgeson who took the honours with a very dangerous but very professional maneuvre learnt from the SCOUSE car jackin and joyriding days.
On to the GO-KART-TRACK sorry I meant Landsend,only joking mikey put that tarmac on hold.
In the carpark I was to busy sorting out my kit to realise that there was a queue forming for the draw so the kit was dumped and I made a b-line for the front with a bit of ducking and weaving only a pro-boxer would be proud of and I was in.In went my pools and out came unlucky for some peg 13 yippeee my favourite winter peg on the complex.With the usual bitter and twisted comments out the way I made my way down to peg 13 and sat staring into the gin clear water with a freezing easterly wind blowing from right to left and bright sunshine,not a good recipe for a good days fishin.Knowing the potential of the peg I decided to go all out for a lake and section win,although I was up against it as 16 and 19 have been showing much more form and made up just two rigs.
RIG 1- A 4X16 J-RANGE WIRE STEMMED FLOAT TO 0.14 M/L TO A 0.12 H/L AND A SIZE 16 TUBERTINI 808 TO FISH CORN AND PELLET @ 14.5M @ 2 OCLOCK IN 7FT OF WATER.
RIG 2- A 4X14 FLOAT TO 0.14 M/L TO A 0.12 H/L AND AGAIN A 16 808 TO FISH CASTER TO THE R/H PALLET AND DEAD MAGGOT 14.5 M UP THE L/H EDGE BOTH IN 4.5FT OF WATER.

At the all in I cupped in a full kinder pot of micro,4mm and caster into the deep water,a half pot of caster to the pallet and a full pot of micro and dead maggot
14.5m up the l/h edge.As I had a liner by the pallet when plumbing up i decided to start here to see if I could pick up an early mug fish,but 20 minutes later I was biteless so opted to try the deep line.On went a piece of corn shipped out and dropped my rig straight down,,the wind was pretty strong so I put a no8 backshot above the float and laid about 3 to 4 inches of line on the deck to hold everthing still and 10 minutes later the float slid away and the strike was met with a solid resistance-what a lovely feeling.A few minutes and a spirited fight later 6 pound of mirror carp was led in the landing net pheeewww at least I was off the mark.By this time Ken Rayner on peg 16 had already hooked 3 carp down by the tree to his left but only managed to get 1 out thank god.Next put in with just my corn hookbait and no more feed I had to wait about 10 minutes to get my next bite resulting in a 5 pound common carp which fought like a fish twice its size,unbelievable when you consider the the water was just 5 degrees.In went some more micro,4mm and caster along with the rig and had a few liners straight after feeding so I tried the shallower rig over the deep line to no avail.Back with the deep rig and another bite after a wait of about 20 mins and another carp was netted.Great 3 carp in the first 2 hours with talk of it fishin extremely hard,and my only real worry was Ken who I thought I was just ahead of at this stage.
With no more bites forthcoming on the deep line I refed and went back down to the pallet where id been occasionally feeding caster in the hope of hooking anything,I really did persavere with this line but could just not make it work and after 30 mins it was time to move.Time to try my 3rd line up the l/h edge.Baiting up with a red and white dead maggot I shipped out to 14.5m and laid my rig into the gap between the branches and the cage,the sun was making it difficult to see the float so when it moved sideways I thought I was seeing things only for it to slide slowly away and carp no4 was on and played very gingerly to the net.I made a few moves between the other lines with no indications and it wasnt until the 4.5 hour mark that I had my next bite up the l/h edge again on the maggot,it was just a case of rotating lines and hoping that something had moved over the feed.A move back to the deep water and corn resulted in my biggest fish of the day and @ about 7 pounds was very welcome and much needed as Ken was still geeting a few bites.I had my 7th and last carp up the l/h edge again on maggot with 25 mins to go but never had another touch,so at the all out it was me-7 carp-0.I knew that Ken was close to me as his fewer carp were slightly bigger than mine and he also had a few silvers to go with the carp.I weighed first and put 33lb-9oz on the scales,Kens fish went 32lb-11oz so as Gordon Ramsay would say-- section win-DONE! lake win-DONE!.Nick on specimen peg 33 done the biz again and cant do no wrong at the moment with 6 section wins and a 2nd in section and extending his lead further-fairplay mate.Matty-TWO ROACH-Tomes came back with 4 points from peg 1 on match lake which is a very good result judging by the poor form that peg 1s been showing lately.Its such a good result that it might just get him into our reserves teams of 4 for this year.

OVERALL
1ST NICK COLLIER- 64-0
2ND NICK DUCKETT- 63-14
3RD TOM THICK - 49-10
4TH SCOTT LOVELL-46-0
5TH ANTON PAGE- 33-9

SILVERS
1ST NICK DUCKETT- 24-10
2ND JOHN BRADFORD- 16-5
3RD ADRIAN JEFFRIES- 15-4