avalon weds

first time back here for a while and the news from vic was that there were plenty of silvers showing over g bait or micro,s plus the speci boys were getting quite a few carp, so the signs were good. shame the weather had other ideas, with a frost on tuesday night and a strong N E wind blowing straight down the lake, making pole fishing nigh on impossible for most. fortunately i drew 21 which was the third peg in from the top , so at least i had a bit of shelter from the wind. 2 rigs today both 4x16 impact 6,s , one with an 18 808 to .12 and the other with a 18 t6139(middy). at the start i cupped in 2 balls of g bait at 13 mtrs and a ball of softened micro,s at 16 mtr in front and angled at 2 o,clock(2 lines).
it took 35 mins to get my first bite and that resulted in a 6 oz skimmer, i had 2 more in the next 30 mins and i think if it hadnt been for the gale which was making presentation hard as it was blowing the rig thru to fast i think i would have had a few more.
so just over an hour in i pushed the rig out to 16 mtr,sand it went under straight away with another small skimmer , as it did on the next put in then no bites again so i fed a few more micro, s and came back to the 13 mtr line where i had another skimmer and a couple of roach then i bumped off a good fish, probably a better skimmer , and that finished that line off as i never had a bite there for the rest of the match, like wise the 2 o,clock swim never produced a bite. 3 hours in and the wind was getting stronger making the 4x16 rigs all but useless, so i upped the size of the rig to a 1.5 grm jollywhich sat there just nice and even better it started to produce the odd bite from small skimmers and odd roach with all the fish so far falling to double maggot , then at 2.40 the float went under and i was attached to a small carp(4.3) a useful bonus on a hard day. it seemed to be fishing hard , the only person i could see with a carp was matt (slimfast)tomes who had had a six pounder 2nd chuck but hadnt had anything since but with no one wandering about i didnt have a clue as to who had what. 30 mins from the end i had a 3lb bream so by the end i thought i had about 10 lb
vic turned up with the scales and as jason radford only had 1 roach on 23 i was the first to weigh,
my silvers went 6.14 and with the carp i had 11 .1.
as it turned out there had been a few fish caught with gary wall on peg 7 with 10 carp for 41.7 all taken on maggot and pellet feeder cast to the island
2nd stu taylor(entrprise taunton) 30.13 on peg three . three tip caught carp on maggot
3rd martin lenaghan 19.4 peg 16. fair play to you martin for letting stu borrow a lead rod to beat you with ha ha , stu did say it was probably the first time it had been used properly
4th alan oram 14. 2 peg 11
5th tony rixon 11.1 and top silvers with 6.14
6th phil (another quid for me)harding on peg 9