chilton trinity ash lake

for a change we were using ash lake which is a small canal type lake so everyone is fishing to an island. only 13 of us today as a couple were to scared to come out of there comfort zone and try something new,(no doubt mr anon will comment), i cant remember who drew for me but i ended up on peg 15 which is on the middle of an island, with jason radford on 14 and tom mangnal on 17 which is on a gap between two islands and he has got the only tree in the water in his margin(but i,m not bitter).
i decided to put some g bait at 14 mtrs to my left and the same .3 rig would do for soft pellet at 11 mtrs in front so it had an 18 6313 on .10 on the business end. my second rig was for fishing soft pellet and corn to the island so that was a 4x12 on .12 with an 18 8313 on, down the middle was about 4 foot deep but over there was no shelf just a slope so i fished as close to the island in several places on the slope in about 2 foot of water, at the start i cupped in two balls of g bait at 14 mtrs to my left, some micro,s at 11 mtrs in front and some micro,s to the island,
starting at 11 mtrs on soft pellet i never had a bite in the first 30 mins so i swithced to the g bait line and had bites off small roach but it was to far away and the fish were to small to be of any use, so i took the descision to put some g bait at 11 mtrs over the micro line ,as no one was getting anything of note in the deep water i didnt think it would do any harm, by now tom thick on 11 had put a couple of small carp in the net on soft pellet over by the island, so i followed suite but the slope was covered in dead norfolk reed making presentation had as i was never sure as to whether the pellet was sat up on a piece of crap so i swithed to corn on the hook as it gives a positive indication as it settles, i got a couple of small carp quickly but then it got hard with me having to move around the far bank swims getting odd bites, by the end i had 9 small carp and a few silvers(and i mean a few), tom mangnal had 4 carp, one of which was probably 7 pounds and his other three were of a better size and tom thick had 12 small carp, and with all three of us admitting to 12lb tops only the scales would tell who were the biggest liars, as it turned out tom mangnal was the biggest liar as his 4 carp and silvers went 21.5 for first on the day
2nd and only a slightly smaller liar was tom thick with 20.12 peg 11
3rd and the smallest liar was me with 15.15 peg 15
4th ed wynne 8.5 peg 6
5th kev molten 7.10 peg 18 which was also the top silvers weight
6th dave blakemore 7.2 peg 4