Church Lane Staunton 31/03/2012

The day started with the weather report saying it would be light drizzle showers on and off during the day, looking outside it was overcast but not too cold so looked ok, so hopefully the fishing would be good, I had been to this venue once before but had fished the other lake and had a decent day so was looking forward to fishing it again. I had planned to fish a method i hadn,t used before which was the floating feeder that would be my main attack but also had taken the kit to fish the pellet waggler or on the surface with pellet/bread if needed. Upon arriving at the venue we had alook at the rules which stated no bread whatsoever and also not floating baits, I know that floating feeder is not floating baits but i thought i may be pushing the rules just a bit too far by going down that route so decided against it, plan A out the way.
Asking the guys it seemed that this lake was solid with carp so i decided to go down the pellet and paste route.
At the draw i drew peg 3 which was apparently on the wrong side of the lake but such is my confidence in paste i thought i would catch carp no matter what if there really was that many fish in the lake. I arrived at the peg which i basically the same as all the other pegs on the venue a grass bank not more than 10" above the water surface, I decided on two lines one at 4 metres and one down the edge about a top three along the left hand bank.
I set up the usual Maver invicible 4x14 float with a bulk and 2 small no10 droppers with a size 14 pr28 hook all on wb clarke matchteam 4.6lb line. This would be the rig i would use for the 4 metre line.
On the inside line line i used the same float but in a smaller size (sorry i forget which size) the shotting pattern however would be the bulk directly under the float as i only had 12" of water again wb clarke matchteam line 4.6lb with a size 14 pr28 hook.
On the 4 metre line i had roughly 3 to 4 feet of water.
I started out by cupping in a small amount of pellet at 4 metre and a few small pots on the inside line, this would be left as my last hour line and i would feed this regularly during the match whilst looking out for any signs  of fish.
First put out on the 4 metre line and i had signs of fish there straight away and actually had 8 fish in the first hour on the paste a good start, by 12 o'clock i had 28 fish all around the 1-2lb size , meanwhile Tim (supposedly on the good side of the lake) was also catching regularly but not quite as fast as me, the next 2 hours was different as i would have 2 or 3 fish then have a quiet spell for 5 - 10 minutes whilst Tim was starting to catch me up as his swim seemed to improve. I decided to go against the grain and stop feeding to see if i could force them to take the paste instead of feeding on the pellets that i was feeding every put in.
The swim suddenly improved and i was getting fish more frequently and funnily enough they were starting to get bigger.This seemed to be the opposite of Tim's swim as he said he had to feed more bait to keep the fish coming.
At the end of the match i finished up with 62 fish for 127lb and the win Tim was a close second with 107lb third was around 50lb but everybody had fish so it did fish well.
Manor Farm Boundary tomorrow so we will see how that fishes hopefully better than the open last week which i fished but never saw the final whistle that's how hard it was!!!