Catch - 9 Skimmers, 2 Carp, 2 Roach
Weather - Sunny and light winds. Actually felt like spring!
Match - Open - 6th out of 10 (4th - silvers)
With the promise of lighter winds I decided to book in at Lands End and it certainly made a pleasant change not to be wearing loads of layers. 12 were booked in, however there was 4 no shows. Why do people think it’s acceptable to book in then not turn up without letting the organisers know? Fortunately Tom Mangall and Jamie Parkhouse turned up after drawing 130 & 131 in the Fishomania at Viaduct, because they didn’t fancy sitting it out for 1 or 2 fish, so the final number was 10.
I was really disappointed to have pulled p1, which has shown very little form over the winter, but with the “warmer” weather I kept my fingers crossed. For company Nigel Bartlett was opposite on p23 and Fabio was the closest to my right on p5.
I’m convinced that groundbait can work at Lands End, so decided to feed ½ a cup of loose groundbait with a few micros and 4s at 13m in open water, then a pinch of micros/4s 14m at the bottom of shelf down the left hand side and towards the island.
Well I caught most of my fish in the first 2.5hrs, over all three swims, although I did pull out of a couple of skimmers which was annoying. I thought I was very slightly ahead of Nigel at this point, but Fabio was catching and looked to be leading the silvers.
The rest of the match was a proper struggle. Caster on top of the shelf didn’t work (why aren’t those perch and roach feeding?) and meat by the right hand bush didn’t produce either. Nigel was also struggling, it was just like the fish completely disappeared from this end of the lake. Nigel did provide some entertainment. He really doesn’t like carp and was having a proper tantrum.
In the warm sun a ball of carp sat under the tree and a few even came for swim around the peg, but they weren’t even taking loose feed pellet. With little ripple and clear water the fish immediately shyed away from the pole, so I didn’t waste too much time chasing them.
In the end the feeding fish were around the middle of the lake, with both Tom & Eric Fouracre catching shallow. Fabio easily won the silvers with a nice bag of skimmers and F1s.
1st 106- 9 - Eric Fouracre - p19
2nd 97- 0 - Tom Mangnall - p17
3rd 43- 6 - Mike West - p21
4th 40-15 - Phil Harding - p5
5th 38-13 - Jamie Parkhouse - p15
6th 21- 3 - Ken Rayner - p1
Silvers
1st 31-12 - Phil Harding - p5
2nd 13-13 - Jamie Parkshouse - p15
3rd 11-15 - Tom Mangnall - p17
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