Landsend winterleague round 5

My turn on Special today and a draw at the top end would have been nice. But I pull out 39. It looked all right when I got there and the water was nicely coloured up. For company I had the legend that is Tony Rixon on my right on corner peg 40. Rod Wooten opposite on 25, and Leon Hubbard on 37. Couldn't see anybody else, but I'm sure we would hear how things were going. The weather was nice and I actually got down to just a tee shirt today for while. 4 rigs today. A Shalla slim to fish 16m to the island on pellet
A .4 slim to fish at the bottom of the far shelf on pellet. Another .4 slim to fish meat at 9 and 5 meters and a .3 margin diamond to fish meat down the shelf to my left. The peg is bit of a nightmare to fish long as the dense brambles make it impossible to ship back without breaking down twice. That was to bite me in The ass later. At the start I went across with an 8 mm pellet and fired a few 6's across. Wasn't long  before I was getting  liners and spoking fish. After about 15 minute's I hooked one but after a short fight the hook pulled. Tony was having  trouble loosing several fish in the caged hay bales. Torettes flying around making myself and Rod giggle. It took a while but I managed to get one in the net. A decent double but it was hard work breaking the pole down at my 11m section to pull the pole back with a large carp putting pressure on the pole. I got another in about half hour later after a couple of lost foulers. Rod and Tony were going at it with decent F1's but Tony was still having problems with the wire cage as the fish are in there before you have chance to pull them clear. I came in on my meat line and this is where my day started to go tits up. I managed to crack my number 7 see section with my elbow on a strike. Bugger!!!!. Borrowed a bit of tape from Tony and carried on. Fingers crossed. Then disaster. I went over to the island and hooked another good fish. It took about a minute before I pulled the fish around to ship back. The fish was right under the tip so I tried to take the pole apart at the 6/7 joint. As I just started to pull it apart the fish bolted inwards and to the right. I was now stuck with the joint half apart. Couldn't ship out and couldn't go back as the pole was wedged in the bank under the brambles. The fish kept going right. Then the sickening crack as the end of the 7 section folded. That released the pressure and I managed to get it apart and land the fish. But the end of the section was crushed about 20mm down. That was now two lots of damage on that section. As I wasn't prepared to risk it I stopped fishing across. I tried the bomb over there but they wouldn't look at it even though I managed to tuck it right under the bank a few times. The next three hours was a waste of time with just a hybrid and a decent roach on meat. So I sat and watched Tony do what he does best and start catching regularly and avoiding the hay bales. I did manage two more carp. One from Tony's margin lol, and one on the meat line. But my day was ruined by my damaged pole. I might have competed with Tony if I could have fished the pole over all day as I was getting good fish and at the time I damaged it I think I was well ahead of him. Ah well, suck it up Stuey. I followed the scales round and Trigger had won the lake on corner peg ( flyer again ) 33 with 179-4. My 5 carp went 39-3 and the silvers took it to 40-4. Tony had a good second half and put 109-1 on the scales for the section win. All in all not a good day for my. First time for a while I've drawn a peg I might have got a good weight from and I blow it through no fault of my own. As they say, Ce la vie. Weigh sheets below