Landsend Winterleague, round two

not been out since two weeks before xmas so i was looking forward to this as I`d had a good start in the first match with a lake win. I drawn venue owner Mike ducket in the knockout so id have to have a good day as he was on Match lake and he knows it like the back of his hand. I was on top lake today so was hoping for a corner peg but i drew 68 which is the end of the first island. this peg can be good for a few f1`s against the island as its about 4 foot deep tigh across. For company I had Nick Ducket in the corner to my left on 70, Joe McMahan opposite on 42, suffering from the Xmas lurgy and sounding pretty rough. and Chris Koniecczny on 41 in the opposite corner. That was all i could see. 4 rigs today.  A .4 slim caster or maggot rig for against the island. A .4 slim  to fish  caster or maggot in open water at 12 meters. A .3 SS margin rig to fish tight against the bushes each side on corn. And a .3 slim to fish corn against the weedbed. Keeping the bait simple today. Started against the island but after an hour and only one indication it was a swith to the weed bed and first drop in on corn a 10 pounder hit the net. then nothing else for half an hour. Back to the island and a perch first drop on caster. then nothing for and hour on all lines. I then took a 1lb skimmer on corn after a couple of missed bites by the weed bed. At this time Nick has only had a few small perch. Chris had taken 3 carp and Joe was still to get a bite. But he was struggling today feeling pretty sick. with about 90 minutes left I changed to feeding caster by the weedbed and lightened up my terminal tackle. that seemed to do the trick as in that time left i managed a few silvers and two big perch plus another bonus carp that came in on number 6-10 elastic like a wet sack. Nick finished well taking four carp on maggot along the end bank. Joe got a lump out that went over 11 lb. but chris had very little in the second half of the match. At the weigh in Dave lewis was winning our lake with two carp and a skimmer for 19-5. I weighed 20-11 with 5-9 of silvers that was top on the lake. nick weighed last and his four carp and sumplimentry perch also went 20-11 for joint first on the lake.  But later this evening I got a message from Ken Raynor and he said he`d made a mistake and Nick has 20-13 for the lake win. Good job he double checks the sheets even if it was detrimental to me. Dont wanna win by a mistake. the other lake fished a bit better with gary Oshea winning on the day with 89-9. not bafd on a bitterly cold day. results bellow but look at other blogs for reports on the other lakes.