Woodlands View Open Tuesday 21/9/10

Day 2 of our fishing week took us down to Woodlands View for the Tuesday affordable match which we found out would be on Ghost pool as the Starlets Vets were on High & Arles pool and the Midland Bears were on both Deans pools. Its been a couple of years since i last fished a match on Ghost so i was looking forward to it as some good weights can come from it, it is rarely used in opens due to only 22 pegs on it and is normally booked for clubs during the weekends. All through the summer months the top method has been to fish 3-6m or down the edge with 6 or 8mm hook pellet over a bed of 4mm feed pellets or corn. Only 8 people had turned out for the match so a least we would have a bit of room, i drew out peg 4 & Stav peg 19 but to be honest it looked like the winner could come from any peg today with this much room.
I set up 3 rigs one on the deck at 3m, one for up in the water from 11 to 14m & one for down the left edge near to the next pallet by some reeds, for bait i had got 2 bags of 4mm fishery feed pellets, 4 tins of corn plus various 6 & 8mm hard & expander's for the hook, i had also got some dead maggots left over from Sunday.
I started on the 3m line to see if the fish were there early but after only 2 early carp on this i left it for later and went out on the shallow rig after only 30 mins, the guy to my right on peg 6 got off to a flier having a fish a bung on the short line but kept saying they were only small fish up to 3lb. I started to have odd carp & f1's shallow at 13m but not as fast as i would have liked, an early look down the edge where i had been potting maggots produced only a couple of small perch. The guy to my right was still catching then the guy in the corner peg started to catch big lumps on both his short & edge line quite regularly. Stav on the opposite side to me was having odd fish on the deck & shallow long but without setting the world on fire, the rest of the pool was fishing ok but the guy in the corner peg was catching a lot of big fish quickly. The rest of the match went much the same just picking odd fish off here and there until the last hour & a bit when i went back down the edge for the 3rd time to see if any carp had turned up on my margin maggot line. I started to catch carp in the 4-6lb bracket with some sort of regularity with 3 maggots on the hook, the two guy's that were catching earlier were still catching & i thought the guy to my right must have 200lb+ by now! I caught on my maggot edge line until the final whistle where i caught a lot of fish in a short space of time. The guy on peg 2 had packed away before the whistle saying that he had lost more than he had got out complaining of lots of foul hookers so i was first to weigh, i was surprised when Ade added up my weight up and gave me 124lb 4oz mostly in the last hour when i must have had 70lb. The guy on peg 6 was as shocked as i was when Ade gave him 144lb i was sure he had got 200lb+ he was playing fish all day ( he must have had his canal kits on! ), there was a french guy in peg 8 over here for two weeks for fishing with his mate he had 126lb!. The guy in the opposite corner had caught well after a slow start catching some big lumps but we were all shocked when he put 254lb on the scales i would have sworn that his mate next to me had got more than him?The other french guy next to stav had 60lb odd and stav 78lb, the last guy on that bank had 105lb. So we had a few fish but no coin i just wished the fish would have come down the edge earlier? ( at least i was 1-o up on Stav in our series one big fat £1?).