acorn on paddocks

why have the weather men got to get it right, we had early rain and a strong north easterly wind forcast , and thats what we got , and .it was cold with it.
another reasonable turn out of 27 , so i could leave a few corner pegs out , but i must have had a brain surge cos i left out a couple of pegs that i shouldnt have ,doh,
ryan summerhayes drew for me and handed me peg 2 (nice), i must admit i nearly ran to it as tim clark even had 60 lb off it last match so it must be solid.
it was going to be a mostly a maggot and caster job today so i set up only 2 rigs, both impact 6,s , one 4x12 with a 16 6313 to .12 for over , and a 4x16 on the same line and hook to fish at 4 and 11 mtrs as its the same depth, about 6 foot, over on the island i had about 18 inches a metre off.
at the start i cupped in some caster with a few dead mags on all 3 lines, then started at 4 mtrs, it wasnt long befor i started to get the odd perch up to 8oz on double caster but no carp. over on peg 9 ,the waitrose trolley dolly, aka shaun kitteridge was catching carp already, helped by the fact that he had an empty peg each side of him(blame it on the pegger), also 2 pegs to my left the clevedon dwarf paul faires had a couple of early fish on (horror of horrors)THE METHOD, but fairplay to him he did stop using it after a few choice insults from me , i should have let him carry on as it cost me at the end. i had a good first 2 hours catching perch on the 4 and 11 mtr lines, i also had a small carp and a 4 pounder at 4mtrs but that was about it really. the last 3 hours were really hard for me , i think i only had 5 more small carp, all taken by the island on corn or maggot and 3 more perch, all this time shaun had been catching steadily on 9 , also gary wall on 30, rod wootten on 11 were all getting a few as was tim ford on 5. paul faires was catching quality silvers after ditching the method.
as expected shaun kitteridge won with 135.13 all carp to 8lb on pellet at 11 mtrs on peg 9
2nd rod wootten 64.4 peg 11 on maggot over pellet
3rd gary wall 60.00 peg 30
4th martin rich 51.8 peg 16
5th tim ford 49.14 peg 5
6th paul faires 49.6 peg 4 also he had the top silver weight with 25.14 big skimmers 2 tench and some nice perch
rod wootten came second in the silvers ,but as he came second overall it meant i picked up 2nd silvers money with 16.6, if i had left paul with his method i may have even picked up first in silvers by default(bugger).
the wind was a real problem today and with the wind going with the trip presentation was hard , so i think the weights suffered as most people couldnt , stop there rigs blowing through .
off to landsend tommorrow and with 30 booked in and with a better forcast it should be good.