aching at acorn

talking to the owners it would appear that they have big plans for the fishery, and with the new 50 peg snake lake opening in may the other fisheries in the area may have to watch out.
back to the draw and any peg from 1 to 7 would do me , the only pegs i didnt really want were 17 and 18 as they were down at the windy end of the lake , and it is also the shallowest, and with a stiff easterly blowing to that end it was really knocking the temerature back. normally someone draws for me as i am organising but the buggers made me draw my own , and what did i get effing 18 , at least i had charlie barnes nextdoor on 17 so we were going to have a laugh.
one rig would do all today as it is the same depth wherever you go, about 22 inches ,mint,go 2 pegs to my right and you start to get 3 foot which gives the fish a bit more confidence especially as the water was quite clear. so one rig it was then a 4x12 impact 6 float with .12 to an 18 808. as i said 1 rig would do as it was the same depth down the edge , at 13 mtrs and at 17.5 mtrs which was about 1 mtr off the far bank reeds. on the whistle i cupped in some maggots and dampened micro,s on all 3 lines anmd started at 13 mtrs straight out, and had my first bite after about 10 mins and what felt like a perch came off about halfway back, so i cupped some more mags and 5 mins later a 10 oz perch was in the net. i stayed on this line for about an hour and a half and ended up with 7 perch up to about a pound and a quarter but no carp and by now i could see plenty of elastic up to my right so i was behind and going nowhere , quick look down the edge and no bites, to cold and to shallow me thinks. out to 17.5 mtrs and bites straight away and a couple of 2 lb carp safely netted feed again and a couple more soon followed. andy france wandered round for a chat and told me pete sivell on peg 4 had already had about a dozen carp down the edge on corn, i couldnt have drawn any further from the fish, and with dean malin 2 pegs to my right now catching down the track it didnt look to good. with 2 hours to go and no bites anywhere it was off the box for a quick rummage in deans holdall and me back at my peg with a couple of different extensions so icould fish 18.5 mtrs to the reeds christ this was going to hurt in this wind, but at least i was getting some bites again and putting odd carp and small perch in the net , that was till about 45 mins from the end when my bodged extension snapped on the strike , so back to deans bag and back to my peg with a 16 mtr tournament bit which fitted after a fashion, and i had a few more towards the end , that is when i could hold the pole in the wind, my shoulders are hurting now just typing, 18.5 is to far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
as i went round with the scales pete on unfancied peg 4 was abmitting to 30 carp but he thought it might not be enough, i cant believe he kept straight face when he said it.
pete won as expected with a very good 113.8 with him taking a lot of fish off the bottom on corn, a good weight for the time of year
2nd dean(i,ve only got 30lb)malin 64.15 peg16
3rd ed wynne 58.14 on peg 10 in the narrows
4th tony rixon 37.12 peg 18
5th mike west 35.6 peg 15
6th alan oram 30.5 peg 13
silvers
john(its only me fishing for them)bradford 17.12 of perch on peg 7
fairplay to tom thick for letting pete catch some fish out of his peg i hope tom has learnt a bit more as to how to catch carp now i hope you didnt show him to much pete.
for those inetrested the cafe at shipham will be open on sunday morning
and where was fabio, well he decided to fish the open on the river at newbridge , only 8 turned up, 7 blanked 1 caught 1 bream, i,m really glad i aint a "proper" angler any more lmfaro.