Landsend, Match & Speci Lakes, 20 Mar (18 pegs)

With a decent turnout of 18 for once, Landsend's multi-millionaire fishery owner and thoroughly nice bloke, Mike Duckett was kind enough to give us five pegs on the back of the speci lake to ease the pressure on Match lake.
The downside of this was that Brian mugger Shanks was drawn on 25 which is the corner of speci and wins most matches on that lake.
Mind you, if Brian had drawn the puddle behind the toilet he would most likely still have won the match!
The match itself fished reasonably well despite the fact that it was a bright, clear day with none of Landsend's normal gale force winds. And that a lot of fish were cruising around just below the surface enjoying the warm spring sunshine.
Alan Healy, keen to add to his growing pile of pound coins, got off to a flying start on peg 15, fishing his top2 just off the edge of his platform and next to a part submerged bush. While Darren North who apparently could draw a corner peg on a round lake in corner peg 13 was matching his catch rate.
Steve Burgess, on peg 19, was also catching well but was losing them all probably due to the fact that he was using 18 hooks and 0.10 line as he hadn't been arsed to make up any "proper" rigs!
Entertainment was being provided by Adam Caswell (pictured right) who after hooking up the island, broke his number 5 section and then fell off his box and broke his number 7 section.
Adam managed to redeem himself later on by catching well in the last hour on pellet shallow including one fish of over 10lbs that he had estimated at 7 (in that endearing way of his)!
Somehow, Adam had managed to draw next to his hero, mentor and brother-in-law Mark Radford, but following his winter lay-off Mark struggled to recreate the magic from previous seasons and could only manage 13th, avoiding being beaten by Paul Reed by just 6 ounces!
Brian Shanks was the winner on the day by a considerable margin, weighing in 90lbs 12oz consisting of 46lbs of carp and a hefty 44lbs of silvers!

Full Result:

1. Brian Shanks .... peg 25 ..... 90-12
2. Darren North ........ 13 ...... 47-11
3. Chris Gay .............. 30 ...... 47-4
4. Alan Healy ............ 15 ....... 37-12
5. Steve Burgess ....... 19 ....... 33-7
6. Chris Szakacs ....... 24 ....... 26-8
7. Adam Caswell ...... 21 ........ 25-11
8. Derek Lucas ......... 7 ......... 19-5
9. Ade Crawley ......... 32 ....... 6-11
10. Eddie Wynne ....... 29 ....... 17-5
11. Simon Belcham ... 3 ......... 16-14
12. Steve Hutchinson 6 ........ 15-4
13. Mark Radford ...... 22 ...... 13-7
14. Paul Reed ............. 27 ...... 13-1
15. Stuart Ashton* ..... 1 ........ 7-9
16. Bob warren ........... 11 ..... dnw
17. Rich Britton .......... 18 .... dnw
18. Ron Hardiman ...... 16 .... dnw

Silvers:

1. Brian Shanks ..... 44-8
2. Eddie Wynne ..... 17-5
3. Chris Gay ........... 13-12
4. Paul Reed .......... 13-1
5. Simon Belcham . 12-4
6. Alan Healy ......... 11-9
7. Steve Hutchinson .. 10-15
8. Ade Crawley ........ 7-10
9. Stuart Ashton ..... 7-9
10. Steve Burgess ..... 7-5
11. Chris Szakacs ..... 6-0
12. Darren North ..... 5-13
13. Mark Radford .... 3-6
14. Derek Lucas ....... 3-5

* golden peg