acorn fishery, paddock lake

only 15 booked in today , i think we may have been suffering from the end of a long fishing weekend , but still not to bad for a midweeker.
even though we never had the full use of the lake most had an empty peg each side, i let the genial welshman(lee wherret) draw for me and he handed me peg 6 which is a bridge peg and a flier to boot, on our last match here mr shipp drew it and had 170lb fishing 4 inches deep against the bridge but with the wind blowing strongly towards me i knew that was going to be a bit of a struggle but i set up 2 rigs for it anyway one really shallow and one 12 inches deep and 2 rigs for over against the nasty spiky grass to the left of the island, one for front edge of the grass and one for against the bank after i had been over the bridge and cut myself a gap to fish in, all rigs were on .14 with 18 b960 hooks to fish hard pellet, for company i had a supermarket bait specialist either side in the shape of alan oram on 7 and dan white the other side of the bridge on 40.
i started off feeding 6,s and using a 6 in the band, fishing the slightly deeper rig on the edge of the grass in 2 feet of water, and tried to get some 6,s somewhere near the bridge but the wind was making it difficult, and it wasnt really happening , i did get a couple on the deeper rig but i was going nowhere fast as dan on 40 was catching well on meat against the bridge , looks like a dan whitewash on the cards , alan was also finding a bit of a struggle as apart from a couple of early carp the small skimmers had discovered his meat and annoying him, i could see the usual suspects catching with anton page and tom thick catching on 5 and 33 respectivley.
i switched to the bridge but couldnt keep the rig close enough to the bridge as the wind was blowing it back at me, with 3 1/2 hours gone and next to nothing in the net and with dan still catching a few and alan had had a couple of better fish to his left at the bottom of the nearside shelf i was looking at plum last, then we had the heaviest short storm i have ever sat in without a brollie, how did we ever manage without gore-tex, tom thick sat through it as normal in shorts and flip flops, he is really going to suffer later on cos you cant keep doing this without some health problems developing, i think his grandad ray needs to give him a stearn talking to.
after the rain it was like a different lake , the wind eased and changed direction meaning i could now get 4,s to the bridge and over to the grass, after a bit of a dabble in the grass i went over to the bridge with the really shallow rig but still couldnt get a bite even with the rig sat against the steel, hmm, back out with the slightly deeper rig and i started to catch, trouble was the fish were small f1,s of less than 8oz and if i did get a carp it was just under or just over a pound, dan now stopped catching , i dont know if it was because i was now feeding the bridge or his swim just died, also the fish that he had caught were twice the size of the ones i was now getting. i kept small fish going right up to the end of the match but i was never going to do any good but i was enjoying it which is the most important thing .
alan was now getting better fish on meat tight in down to his left but it was always going to be to late for him to do any damage either.
1st went to tom thick with 163.3 on peg 33, catching on soft pellet over micro,s
2nd tony page 124.9 peg 5
3rd lee wherret 116.12 peg 16
4th alan oram 91.7 peg 7
5th kev molten 89.12 peg 3
6th chri davis 75.2 peg 14
7th tony rixon 71.15 peg 6
silvers
john baker 18.12 peg 20
joe mcmahon 14.4 peg 1