acorn lake

the last time i fished here it was on the speci lake about 7 years ago, and we had loads of small carp which i think the owner put into his stock ponds which he has now dug out to make a long canal lake with a bowl at each end, and apart from a couple of pegs it is possible to reach the far bank everywhere. the way it was pegged today meant there were two pegs with anglers opposite , i didnt mind where i drew as long as i wasnt on one of theses pegs with an angler opposite. i drew 17 in the end bowl with some one opposite on 18 lucky for me it wasnt an angler, it was only shrimp head(matt tomes), and with the reed bed down to his right knocking with fish i thought i might have my work cut out to win the quid off him.
just a couple of 4x10 rigs today with .12 to a 20 808. one to fish at 1 o,clock angle at 13 mtrs and the other to fish 14 mtrs down my left , the same rig would do at 4 mtrs in the margins each side. at the start i cupped in a few micro,s and maggots on the angle and some at 14 mtr down the margin ,i also fed a few each side at 4 mtrs. it took me 20 mins to get my first bite , and i lost a fouler, i can understand now why the reeds were moving so much in shrimps peg cos he had lost 6 in the same time , obviously they were there cos they felt safe. it took me an hour to get my first fish , a carp of about 2 lb, i had a quick look each side at 4 mtrs but never had a bite , although i tried it several times during the match i couldnt get a bite here. down to 14 mtrs and a carp straight away, then another next put in , so i fed a few more maggots and went out to 13 mtrs and had a small carp and a perch, back down the edge and another carp, all the fish falling to double maggot, i also stopped putting pellets in as the fish seemed to be responding better to just maggot feed by swapping between the two lines i kept getting the odd carp and perch, with most fish coming from the margin swim by the end the margin was getting stronger as i had 5 carp in the last 15 minutes, although they were on the small side(8 oz)
in the end top weight went to pete sivell on peg 14 with 87.15 with all the fish falling to double maggot fished at half depth against the far bank
2nd john(the gimp)bradford 60.3 on peg 4 which included the top silvers on the day with18.2 of mainly perch
3rd tony rixon 48.15 peg 17
4th alan oram 47.00 peg 12
5th martin lenaghan 30.9 peg 10
6th matt(shrimpy)tomes 26.11 peg 18
fairplay to fabio he decided to target the lakes skimmers and after he had caught the three of them he had nothing else to do . i dont know if he realised that the lake was stuffed with small carp, he,s done well to avoid them