This was
my first return to Willow park for about six years so it was going to be
interesting to see how it had changed, my day started well enough, I was up
before the alarm, on the road early, managed to get a brekkie on the way and
tipped up with plenty of time to walk around the well-stocked shop and enjoy a
coffee from the really nice café, I also ordered my lunch to get delivered to
my peg mid match.
The draw
took place and I pulled out peg 7, as I walked out I was asked if I had packed
a flask? I was hoping that he was joking but I had only heard bad things about
the lakes on a whole so we would see.
As you can
see from the picture the peg had a number of features to aim at and I set up a
pellt rig to fish 14.5m under the tree and in open water, a small feeder, a
shallow wag (after the previous days practice with Tony) and an in close rig
that I fished meat at 5m to the left and corm at 14.5m into the corner.
Long story
short the best bite I got was when my sandwich turned up mid match, I managed
to lose a roach on the wag within 5 minutes of the start, then a skimmer on the
tip halfway through the match. I did land a roach and small skimmer on dead
maggot on the tip but that was my day, 8oz. I only weighed in as they gave me
the board.
Peg 6 won
it with 12lb mostly taken in 2 fish in the last half hour, it was a shame as
the facilities are great but until the fishing improves I do not know if I will
return. Sorry Willow Park, I did see
some fish splashing in front of pegs 3-5 but they did not come out.
To cap my
day off my phone packed in that evening so I have probably lost all my pictures
that I took!! Arrgghhhh
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