acorn new lake

it was the first proper match on the venues new snake lake, it has 43 permanent pegs so with 30 of us on it today it would be interesting , there have been a few pleasure anglers on it during the week , and it seems all baits and methods were working so it would come down to fishing to your strengths, also we didnt know which pegs or areas would be best as there was nothing to go on.
paul faires drew for me and gave me peg 19 which gave me 2 empty pegs to my left as it was on a bend and i had my travelling partner dean malin on 18 next door. the plan was to fish caster at 3mtrs for perch and pellet over up and down the shelf with banded pellet, i set up two 4x14 impact 6 rigs one with an 18 6313 to .12 for the perch and one with a 18 b960 for pellet at the bottom of the far shelf and a 4x10 impact 1 with a 18 b960 to .14 for on top of the far shelf, with the lake only 12 mtrs wide it was going to be comfortable day . starting at 3 mtrs on caster it took about 5 mins to get a bite and a 8 oz perch was in the net then a small carp then a 4lb carp then some more perch but after an hour that line was all but dead, dean next door had faired slightly better taking a few more perch than me and several small carp but his line was dieing now so it was over at the bottom of the far shelf, i had been firing 4mm pellets over this line and up the far shelf from the start, first drop on an 8mm pellet and i fouled a 6 pounder up the ass i played it for several minutes even touching it with the net but it came off , next drop and i had a 4 lb carp then i couldnt get another bite there so it was out with the up the shelf rig. and it was bites straight away but the fish were small between 4 and 12 oz but there seemed to be plenty there. looking around most people seemed to be targetting the far side and it kept going till about an hour and a half from the end when the fish dissapeared .
i began feeding 13 mtrs to me left up the shelf and started to catch again . i was a bit slow really as steve hucthinson on 17 next to the bridge had been catching on caster from the start but his fish were slightly smaller than fish on the pellet but dean spotted whet he was ding came up and stole my casters and caught well till the end the smaller fish certainly responded to the caster at our end of the lake. the match was won by john dursley on peg 5 which is the end peg over the bridge on the island he weighed in 97.5 on corn at 13 mtrs
2nd was jim jenner with 74.9 on peg 8
3rd steve hutchinson 70.9 on peg 17
4th chris fox 66.15 peg 21
5th tony rixon 64.5 peg 19
6th timmy (wingnut) clarke 62 peg 2
silvers charlie barnes 15 lb peg 13 mainly perch on chopped worm
as long as they dont get any problems it will certainly be a good venue as the fish are in excellent condition and with a new aerater system going in befor the summer it should keep it nice, it could do with a bit more cover on the bank but that all takes time dont it.
so mr tomes you missed a good match but there are probably to many fish in there for you. i hope the sea fishing went well.