Landsend winterleague round 2

After a disastrous start in the first round when I drew a good peg and bombed out I was desperate to draw well again as a second bomb out would end my league. So after the breakfast was scoffed down I went into the draw late and pulled out peg 32 on Speci Lake. The dream draw for that lake, so I was well pleased. Just had to do my bit now and fish well. Got to the peg and found the wind howling down into my corner. That was gonna be a problem as you need to fish against the end bank to catch the resident shoal of carp. By the end of the match I had to clear it 3 times as I couldnt drop a rig through it. And after tackling up my worst fear was realised as it was nearly impossible to fish tight in as the wind just blasted my pole into the bank. And even when the wind died a bit it was almost impossible to keep the rig still.Plus I had the added bonus of all the crap from the trees drifting into the bank. At the start I went for a look long on the feeder rod right out by the aerator to see if there were any carp in the deeper water, but only a couple of tiny knocks from whitebait. So it was onto the silvers line that I had fed with micros and fished soft pellet over the top. It was slow to say the least and after an hour and one decent skimmer and a couple of pairs of eyes I risked the pole along the end bank. Well blow me doen as soon as i dropped in it sailed away before it settled, and an 8 pounder was netted. Happy days. back out and nothing else happened apart from a possible couple of liners. I persisted with it as I was sure there were fish there, and nobody seamed to be catching, but nothing happened for ages. so I switched around on all lines for not much else apart from a few bits. Then i decided to up the feed considerably as did Mike Duckett next to me, as feeding carefully was doing nothing. And it had the desired effect. with 90 minutes to go I started hooking big fish but getting them in was a problem. I think most were foul hooked and only 3 out of 9 reached the net. But they were all decent fish. At the end I was hoping Id managed to do OK in the section as I hadn`t heard of that much coming out. Mike next to me had a decent last half hour with three netted after struggling for a few silvers all day. Bob Gullick and Tony Rixon never saw a carp all day and went for silvers so I knew I had them beaten. I heard Nick Duckett had five carp and I could see Adrian Clark had beaten me with around 7 carp landed and a grass carp about two foot long. Nicks five carp went 60-01 for another section win. Adrian weighed 56-03 for second, and my four carp and silvers got me third with 37-08. It fished hard today with the wind being a problem. Im sure if I could have fished the end bank properly I would have had alot more, because when I could drop a rig in nicely I had bites. Ah well, C`est la vie. Top dog on the day was Steve "leaf Blower" Seager with 67-00 from peg 1. Full results below.