Landsend saturday open

Back for the first time in 6 months to probably my favourite venue. Always good here even when the fishing is a bit off because the breakfast is fandabidozy. After meeting up with a few guys ive not seen for ages it was draw time and out pops number 5, the narowest peg on the lake which makes life a bit easier. after a word from Jason radford who told me the fish had got a bit wise, and as the water level was so low i decided to set up a shallow rig for across to the island with a ling line. And boy was it shallow. i could see the bottom clearly at the start of the match. Not good!!.i set it so i could fish down the shelf but it was so snaggy i had to give up on that and go about a foot deep but that was well on the bottom. on and off i fished that line for about 3 hours as it was black with carp feeding. but Jason was right every time i put my rig in near them they just cruised off. Id feed and they`d come straight back but i never had a single indication from them. very frustrating. Only thing i did was foul hook one under the chin lifting the rig out. they never moved away from that line all day but i gave up with two hours to go and came in close. I had four carp in a short spell after a couple of hours when i was trying for skimmer with a 4mm over micros between two lilly beds. Mike Dicket had some good skimmers there last week but i never had a sniff of one. It wasn`t untill the last hour when I managed to get 8 carp out from infront of platform 4, that I sort of rescued my day. I ended up with 12, of which half were foul hooked, for 46-2 for nowhere in the match. not a good day over all. No silvers at all and as the silver pool was won with just over 6lb it would have been nice to get a few and go for that. results below.

!st Steve Seagar 121-11from peg 11. Mainley catching along the end bank and tight in the corner. And he didn`t whinge all day. Theres a first.

2nd Mike ducket 88-8. He caught switching from tigh acroos by the reeds and close in by platform 8 from peg. he also had the top silvers wieght with 7-12.

3rd was the ever consistant Tony Rixon  with 79-15 catching tigh over to the island and in his left margin from peg 19.

first in the silver by default was Mr Bean himself dave Wesson from peg 18 with two big skimmer and a few bits for 6-10