2 day comp at chilton trinity on sat and sunday

with 32 fishing there was going to be plenty of room as there were going to be 16 on each lake , and whichever lake you drew the first day you would be on the other next day. i must apologise for not getting the individual results for each day as i rushed home on sunday to watch england get out played by italy i should have known better.
first day i drew peg 66 which is right by the carpark on wildmarsh, its an area i tend to frequent quite a lot whenever we have a match on there, i wasnt to upset as its an area which always throws up some bream and carp usually to paste(yep i got a rig for that), but with the pegs being spread out i was up against it with some good carp pegs in my section, plus i had dean malin in my section was a bit of a bummer as we were sharing so we would be taking a point off each other unless we drew but thats unlikely.
my match went as expected with the 11mtr grounbait line producing small roach and nothing else, the margins were a waste of time, but the 14mtr line gave me 1 carp and 2 bream on paste and 2 more carp on 8mm hard pellet, i started the match feeding micro,s on that line but the peg didnt kick off until about 2 hours from the end when i began feeding 4,s. i ended up weighing 26.15 for second in section behind dean who had 3 carp and 31lb of skimmers taken on the lead and conker on peg 24.
second day draw saw me on peg 20 woodland which is up in the right hand corner, sat back in a bay, jason radford had it the day before and weighed 60 odd pound for second in section, to stand any chance of winning any money overall i needed a section win with a decent weight. i drew next to dean today but at least we were in seperate section, jason had got off to a flying start the day before fishing shallow at 14 mtrs but with the wind blowing a lot stronger today i decided to do that at 13mtrs, he also caught to his right at about 7mtrs and 16mtrs to his left against the end bank, all on pellet as the meat seemed to be attracting to many small roach so i based my attack around feeding 6,s and fishing an 8 in the band, the wind was getting stronger and blowing straight at me which wasnt to bad for the shallow fishing although it was hard to be consistent with the feed, i perseverred with the shallow fishing but only managed 5 carp plus some silvers, i went over to the end bank at 14 mtrs only as 16 would have been impossible to hold, and i began catching fish straight away, but the wind was increasing all the time, it got that strong i even had to retrieve my cap from the fence behind me twice, i had a good spell on that line until it became impossible to hold the pole in position, i switch to the right hand margin produced some fish but fouling was a problem as you need to fish off the bank a bit due to snags in close and the wind was blowing the rig through and into the fish so i had to keep lifting and dropping and most proper bites came as the bait was settling, at the end i hoped i had about 80lb which should be enough for the section win but with mike west on 29 admitting to 70lb it might not be cut and dried, but i neednt have worried as my net went 103.7 and mike had 75lb, he would have done better if trigger next door had lost his top 4 and had to retrieve from right where mike was catching(thanks trig)
overall the two days were won by paul elmes on 2 points and 156.11 over the two days , taking home 600 qui2nd was paul locke again on 2 points but losing out on weight with 103.1 and he had 400 quid
3rd was me on 3 points and 130.8 and 250 quid
4th dean malin 3 pts and 114lb and 60 pounds worth of veals vouchers
SILVERS
craig edmunds 2pts , 38.7 £350
nigel bartlett 3pts £200
glen calvert 3pts £100
paul faires 4pts vouchers
as usual herring family ran a good show and i will definately being doing again next year and hopefully a few more will to , the fishing had been a bit harder than normal but i think that has more to do with all the wind and rain we have had of late, theres more water in the lakes now than we normally see in the winter.