Sunday 06/01/2013 - Landsend Individual Winter League - All Lakes

After a breakfast in “The sausage too far café” (It’s obvious that Bela has been to the kitchen gym practicing eating this breakfast). It was on to Landsend after a detour because of a road closer.

 

At last on “Snow White” (aka; John Walter Lake). With the weather very mild for the time of year at a balmy 11 degrees and overcast the venue had to fish well. You think.

 

I really didn’t mind which peg I drew on the lake but if I had the choice it would have been 41, 68 and 70 in that order. However, pegs 50 and 51 have stuck to me over recent years. So in to the draw box and first pull two tickets stuck together, so I dropped both back in and pulled single ticket revealing peg 50. A number of groans about the peg as last match pegs 50 and 51 fished hard. I didn’t take a lot of notice as I was happy enough to fish the peg. Arriving at the peg I had Mark Brennan for company on peg 51, at least I was in for a quiet professional neighbour who drew flyer peg 68 and handed it to Tony Rixon. Tony ran to hid peg forgetting the weigh board - picture right explains all!

 

I set up the following:

1- 4x14 Jolly with 16-808 hook to be fished at 10 metres with 4 mm expander.

1- 4x14 Jolly with 20-808 hook to be fished at 10 metres wit Pinkie

1- 4x12 Jolly with 16-808 hook to be fished in the RH margin or at 13 metres across down the shelf.

And of course the Ronnie rig.

 

In summary the margin rig after three missed bites produced one Ronnie. The 13 metre line produced two up in the water liners, two Ronnie’s and a small Skimmer. The Ronnie rig unfortunately produced nothing as the Ronnie’s didn’t show, once again letting me down. Even though trying the Pinkie a few times throughout it produced just a couple of micro Ronnie’s.

 

So 99% of my fish fell to the 3mm expander fished over wetted micro at 10 metres. From the start the focus was the lake Silvers. I started well catching a few Crucian’s and F1’s before latching into my first 4lb Carp. The upshot was that for the first Hour I netted three Carp and 8lb of Silvers. I spent the rest of the match scratching around, catching a few more Silvers and one more 6lb Carp.

 

As estimated In weighed 11lb 2oz of Silvers and 23lb 6oz of Carp for a total of 34lb 8oz (the Lake very close result is pictured right) This put me second n the Lake Silvers and Lake fifth overall. I was content with the result as I really enjoyed the fishing. I can’t wait to get back on this lake even though there is plenty of deep mud to negotiate.

 

The match was won by Mark Poppleton (pictured lower right with the Silvers winner) with 73lb 2oz from Specimen Lake peg 29. Mark notched up his third Lake win to take a comfortable series lead by catching most of his fish in his RH margin using corn over micro in 18 inches of water.

 

The Silvers was won by Carp specialist Tom Manmgnall from Specimen Lake peg 31 with 19lb 3oz. Tom caught Skimmers using 2mm expander fished over micro.

 

Full Result:

 

1.      Mark Poppleton 73-02-0 peg 29

2.      Paul Homewood  70-02-0 peg 34

3.      Paul Elmes 53-15-0 peg 36

4.      Tony Rixon 47-01-0 peg 68

5.      Craig Edmonds 43-07-0 peg 43

6.      Tom Thick 42-07-0 peg 25

 

Top Silvers:

 

1.      Tom Mangnall 19-03-0 peg 31

2.      Paul Nurse 14-06-0 peg 11

3.      John Bradford 14-01-0 peg 3