Acorn Tuesday cost cutter

first stop today was the Bridge Inn for a cooked brekkie. Its handy as its only a minute from the fishery, but saying that its usually only a 3.5 out of 5. not always the hotest, but it fills a space. A decent turn out today with 18 fishing. Into the draw bag and I pull 33 out. A decent peg next to a bridge and i was lucky as the wind was howling through the venue and it the bridge broke the wind up making it fairly easy with the pole were as Eddie Wynne next to me on 31 could hardly hold his pole at 7 meters. The other side of the bridge to my left was Mike  Chapman, so a civilised conversation was on the cards today. Unfortunately, England international Callum Dicks had drawn peg 5, a peg I would run too, so it was a case of fishing for second place today. It was an all out carp attack today. So a .4 slim ws set to fish just about anywhere in the peg beyond the bottom of the slope either side as its the same depth all round, but it was mainly for my banker spot halfway along the bridge on banded 6mm pellet.  .2 slim to fish shallow against the far side on top the shelf. a slapper just in case the weather calmed down and  I could see some cruisers. And a .3 SS margin to fish tight to the bridge in my left margin and against pallet 32. At the start I went straight across to the island fishing 12 inches deep and dropping pellet in via a toss pot. I did try feeding with a catapult during the day, but even though the pole was protected the pellets were getting blasted by the wind and going all over the place so I kept mainly to the toss pot. Straight from the off, when pellets went in it was like a trout farm with carp crashing around. I caught 2 fairly quick but they were charging through the peg so fast I was foul hooking loads and landing none. As soon as they`d eaten the pellets they disapeared and no bites ensued. So it was back in and refill the pot for another 30 seconds of foul hooking madness. It went quiet after a while which wasn`t surprising with so many lost fish, so it was down the middle by the bridge on my banker line but no action there. So it was into the margins for an early look. No bites to my left, but by pallet 32 it was a bite every ten seconds and connecting with nothing. The snotty silvers are a plague when your targeting carp down the edges. So it was back across to to far side. But the same problem was happening. Land one loose five. Very difficult to hook anything more than two inches from their arse holes. Very frustrating. So most of the second half was spent searching around. But the silvers were doing my head in. I recon it was 5 bites a minute almost anywhere in the peg and next to no contact with fish. even 8mm pellet got the same treatment. I did manage 3 quick carp from my left margin but then the silvers found the bait and it was impossible to get a bait to the bottom. I did start hooking a few carp in the mouth in the last 15 minutes and put 4 in the net in that time. Too little too late unfortunately. At the weigh in Callum was clearly winning as expected with 131-2, and he even mentioned how crazy the fish were today crashing through his peg. Dave Wride was winning the silvers with an excellent bag of 26-10 in his 63-5 total. Mike managed 17-8 of silvers the other side of the bridge. My 18 carp, several big F1`s, and a  few accidentals went 64-12 for fourth on the day.  A very strange day with the weather doing all sorts and it deffinately made the fish a bit skittish. Hopefully the weather will settle again soon and the fish might settle down with it. Full results below.