chilton trinity wildmarsh lake sunday open

on the proper lake at chilton today and with 21 booked in misha let us use half the lake today and as there are 67 pegs on the lake most would get at least am empty swim on one side, dave evans drew for me today and handed me peg 61 which is about halfway along the road bank, which last year was ok for some skimmers and there was always a chance of some carp towards the end of the match, for company i had one of bathamptons finest in the shape of shaun townsend on 62 and martin rich on 59, the plan today was to fish caster over g bait at 13 mtrs and feed a micro pellet line at 16 mtrs , so i set up a .5g rig with an 18 6313 on .10 for the g bait line and a 4x14 with a 16 6313 on .12 for over the micro,s, at the start i cupped in 3 balls of g bait on the 13 mtr line and a moderate ammount on micro,s with a few 4,s in at 16 mtrs, first drop in at 13 mtrs and i go and foulhook a carp which came adfrift when in got back to my topkit, so back out and i began catching roach which were in the 2 to 5oz bracket so well worth catching, 20 mins in and i lost a good skimmer and i thought that would upset the swim but the roach were still there and i soon had a couple of 8oz skimmers followed by a 2lb fish, by now i could see odd bubbles coming up over the g bait so i switched to double caster and that produced a run of good skimmers, i was able to see most of the pegs from where i was and there seemed to be a few carp and good skimmers coming out , mainly to the paste anglers and dean malin on peg 11 had an early carp on a pink boilie on the lead but that was his lot on the tip and he was now on the pole , my micro line at 16 mtrs was hard with only a couple of better skimmers and 3 crucians ,but one of the bream off that line was my best fish of the day at about 3lb and it was fairly hooked right in the wing, soft pellet was the best bait on this line, the last 2 hours were spent switching between the inside on just my topset fishing caster using my .5g rig just shallowed up where i had some nice roach and my first eel of the year and the 16 mtr line where i managed a few more small skimmers, i only went on the inside as shaun and nigel bartlett were having some nice roach but my rig wasnt really right for what i was trying to do , but i couldnt be assed to make another rig this late in the match, by the end it looked as though dean malin on 11 was going to win as he had 10 carp , one on a boilie and 9 on the pole and hard pellet plus three good skimmers, i thuoght i had 25lb of silvers which should be there or there abouts for some silver coin, and thats how it ended with dean weighing in 47.6 for first on the day off peg 11
2nd was paul elmes on 67 with 34.13
3rd steve seager 29.13 peg 9
4th tony rixon 29.7 peg 62 which was top silvers weight on the day
5th dave evans 25.2 peg 25
6th craig edmunds 24.15 peg 10
it fished quite well really with 4 weights over 20lb and another 4 double figure nets of silvers alone