Landsend Saturday Open

Back at Landsend today, first time for three weeks, for the usual Saturday bash. The weather was looking very good with it being a heatwave lol. Hope the fish weren`t in spawning mode.  First stop was the breakfast which was  4.9 out of 5 today, very tastey. I had loads of time as id got there for a 9 o`clock draw and it was now gonna be 9-30, so I went for a walk around the lake. Pegs 9 to 13 were solid and I recon I could have stepped off the platforms and walked to the island. So a draw at that end of the lake might be good. Only 10 fishing today which was disappointing on such a nice day but I guess all the royalists were sat in front the tv watching the wedding. Into the draw bag and out comes 15. OMG, I`ve actually drawn past the island gap. First time for 12 months I recon. off I run to my peg which is a pretty good draw and was glad to see there were now a few fish right across cruising around.  First rig set up was a slapping rig. along with a Shalla Slim to fish tight across,  A .4 Slim to fish meat at 2+3 and a SS margin to fish the margins both sides. For company I had Martin Mcmahon on 13 and Dave Hodgson on 17. And as usual I had Beany opposite. It seems I sit with him the other side of the lake nearly every match. At the start I went straight out on the slapper but after 15 minutes and two indications that could well have been silvers I gave that up for the time being and went across to the island. It was solid with carp but hooking them in the right end was nearly impossible and I spent an hour hooking and loosing loads and only putting a couple in the net. so I gave it a rest and looked down the edge on meat. This was suppose to be my banker line as I thought it would be were Id get my weight from, but I was getting bitted out on any bait with the float not settling and  I only had a 3 pounder in the thirty minutes I tired. The meat line was barren of anything with no indications so it was back across across to the island. Same as before, liners was a problem but I did get a few more in the net but a lot were small and the weight count wasn`t going up very fast. Martin was struggling and was getting pestered by white bait in his margins and not getting anything shallow or on the deck. Anther try on the slapping rig right across produced a couple but it was a bit tricky as I had a couple of dangling branches sticking out and managed to hook them a couple of times. By half way I had managed to get to around 50lb with a couple of bonus lumps but the second half of the match slowed right up. Like Martin, my edge was frustrating with silvers blitzing everything I put in and only one more small carp came from there so most of my fish came from across. Martin had all but given up by the end with a very frustrating day and Dave had a slow start but put a few edge fish in the net. I guess I had 80lb ish  by the end. First to weigh today was Martin Rayet, who continued his golden run by putting 126-6 on the scales from peg 1 for the match win. I recon we got a new Trigger coming on lol, he cant go wrong at the mo. Rod Wotton  was next and had the top silvers weight of 10-10 in a total of 58-10. Martin didnt bother weighing, and I put 79-04 on the scale including my few accidental silvers. It didn`t fish as well as I thought it would today, but I guess the bright sunshine didn`t help but its nice to be sat without 6 layers of clothing on at last. full results below.