acorn fishery, paddock lake weds open

the turnouts are getting better and better for this venue and we had 27 fishing today which is excellant for a wednesday, i had the last ticket in the hat today and ended up with peg 4 on the island, 5 was in with roger crago sat on it but 3 was empty so i had a bit of room down the edge but with the wind blowing from that way it was always going to make presentation difficult as the rig blows back under the pole tip, but i set up a 4x14 rig for that and the same rig would do for over at 12 mtrs as it was the same depth, it had an 18 xedion hook on .14 for meat down the edge and across, and i set up 2 rigs for meat at 5mtrs a .75 and a 4x16 ,the heavier had a middy 6313 size 16 on .12 and the lighter had the xedion size 18 on .14 just in case i needed a bagging rig.
with the wind forcast to pick up i decided to ignore the far bank pellet attack and went for meat on all lines. at the start i cupped in meat on the 5 and 12 mtr lines and down the edge ,going in on the 5 mtr line and i missed a bite first put in but it wasnt long until the first carp was in the net, i was fishing with the .75 rig with the 16 middy 6313 on .12 and never changed for the duration of the match, some may think the rig was a tad on the heavy side but with the strong right to left wind i think the heavier rig was giving me better presentation as it wasnt getting blown through to much, apart from 2 fish across and 3 carp and a few skimmers down the edge i spent the whole match at 5 mtrs catching steadily throughout.looking around john thompson on 7 was catching well on paste as was adrian jeffery on 10, anton page on 34 was catching really well and i thought he would be pushing for a place but it turned out he had a lot of fish, probably more carp than anyone else in the match but these bridge peg fish can sometimes be tiny and thats how it turned out for him, by the end i had 53 carp and a few silvers, i wasnt to sure as to what i had weight wise but if they averaged out at 3lb which is what i guessed at that would be 150lb but i only admitted to about 120 just to be on the mega careful side, but in the end my total weight went 166.5 and i had 20 fish in one net and that went over the 70lb net limit by 3lb, these fish are really growing
2nd adrian jeffery 132.2 peg 10
3rd john thompson 127.11 peg 7
4th mike nicholls 117.14 peg 15
5th mat tomes 89.6 peg 37
6th tom thick 87.5 peg 12
silvers
craig edmunds 41.14 peg 16 all caught at 5 mtrs on single caster, mainly skimmers.