I haven’t fished Landsend for a while so when I saw Tony R advertising a silvers only match on FB, I booked in along with Nick and Parker The Pole who both said they fancied it as well. There was a slight twist compared to the usual matches in that F1’s which normally count as silvers wouldn’t today. A nice, civilized 9:00 draw meant we could have breakfast at the bowling club which got the day off to a great start.
We made good time and were soon arriving at the fishery, there were 14 anglers fishing including Tony, Stu White, Nigel Bartlett, Russ Peck, Aaron Britnell, Dan Pither and Lee Smart among others. I drew peg 21 on the far side, Steve P was on 24 (the same peg he drew last time) and Nick pulled out 16.
Plumbing up, the depth took me by surprise a bit as the last time I was here it was very shallow but after loads of rain, the lakes were topped right up. The forecast was awful with strong winds predicted so I thought it would be all about fishing short today. With that in mind I set up a little 0.3 gram F1 Carbon Slim to fish a top kit either side and in front plus a 0.4g rig for top four straight out. On the side tray were the usual maggots, disco pinkies plus some Bait-Tech Special G F1 Dark.
On the whistle I fed all my lines with little nuggets of groundbait and a few pinkies before starting on the top kit to the left. I thought it might take a little while to get bites but a chunky 3oz perch first put in was hopefully a good sign. A couple of small fish followed and I also dropped off a nice roach. Swapping between the three short lines I had a lovely sixty minutes catching perch and roach plus a little tench and a gorgeous crucian (which do count) of around 8oz. I also pulled out of a rather large, wobbly carp as well.
Aaron on 19 was catching quite well and Ray on my right had caught a cracking perch and some small fish. I was getting enough bites to keep me interested in the second hour but I was starting to hook a few carp and the average size was a rather lumpy 8-10lb. Bites slowed right up as the three hour mark arrived so I had my first look on the top four line.
After a little wait, a positive bite resulted in a half decent perch which came off at the net! Two more in as many chucks was encouraging until I hooked two carp on the bounce so came back short but was waiting ages for bites and not putting much in the net.
I had a little tench on the longer line and then tried going past the feed and had a nice crucian straight away but it was short lived and then I was back to either waiting an age for bites or playing carp. The wind was a pain at times but nowhere near as bad as I was expecting so I stuck another section on and started a new line, it wasn’t hectic but I was getting the odd fish and then with ten minutes to go and the light fading, I’ve had two tench, a crucian and my first skimmer to finish with a flourish.
I ended up with around 35 fish (plus I’d landed 8 carp for probably 60lb!) but didn’t think I’d done any good, I was sure Aaron had comfortably beaten me and it was going to be close between me, Ray and ‘The Pole’.
As I was packing up, the scales had already started the weigh in over on peg 1. When they got round to our side, Tony was winning with an excellent 16lb 15oz from peg 9 followed by Stu with 15lb 6oz and Russ who had 13lb 12oz on peg 13. Aaron did well with 13lb 10oz, my fish went 8lb 15oz, Ray had 6lb 4oz and then Steve P weighed 6lb 15oz.
1 – Tony Rixon (Premier Angling) – 16lb 15oz
2 – Stuart White (Tom Thick Baits) – 15lb 6oz
3 – Russ Peck (Landsend) – 13lb 12oz
Sections
A – Chad Gard (Landsend) – 10lb 5oz
B – David Wescott (Landsend) – 7lb 1oz
C – Aaron Britnell (Landsend) – 13lb 10oz
I really enjoyed it but I haven’t fished a good match, I should have a fed a couple of longer lines and rotated round them and I also spent far too much time trying to catch short when it just wasn’t happening.
Stu White kindly gave me £2 in the morning (one from Ivy House) and with a squid from Parker The Pole the Nugget-O-Meter climbed to £453.
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