moonshine45

Hi, has anyone got any info on how the willow pool is fishing,eg baits and methods please, and does anyone know how many pegs are on this pool,fishing there on sunday,THANKS,all advice welcome.

Dave Rudge

HI Moonshine
Willow pool very peggy at the moment there are 23/24 pegs on the lake but in my opinion only 4-5 pegs that you can win from.
The pegs close to the main car park were up to last weekend the pegs to draw.
23 and if there is a 24 are on the end of the lake and never pegged in our matches
Pegs 1 and 22 are opposite and are good pegs fished long up in the water or to the edge of the pool.
Peg 2 is probably the most consistent peg on the pool pegs 3-7 can all produce and are all good edge pegs ( flat bottom which is unusual here ) from 8-10 towards the other corner have been hard all through the winter and will stay that way until the wind starts blowing towards that end of the lake.
11+12 are at the other end and again never pegged in our matches 13 fish into the edge 14 -21 are mediocre pegs usually the pegs get better as you get nearer to 21/22.
Baits: corn meat or pellet up in the water and maggots down the edge (plenty of them ) Its not unusual to see the fish before the match and can be black in the areas I have described as mediocre but as yet they havent really opened their mouths?
I wouldnt like any more than 14 pegs on the pool 7 per side for a good days fishing, best weights on the matches I have fished are 170 odd pound with ounces less for second place 100lb is easily achievable on the rite day from pegs 1,2,3,4 and 22.
Long pole shallow
Margin
5-6 meter line (only ever caught late on with this)
As all of the pools there are some real lumps so you can put a good weight together quickly.

Good luck mate let me know how you get on

Dave

moonshine45

Thanks Dave, think there is about 23 fishing on sunday so may be a bit tight but will post the results on sunday evening, looking forward to drawing a decent peg.

Dave Rudge

Hi Moonshine
Team match at the jam factory today generally fished hard !
Ash pool and the match was won with 92lb
Willow won with 75lb from peg 22 long pole to the edge of the pool Maggot and reckon I could have won the match with 17.5 meters loads of fish round an outlet pipe,
2nd peg 5 with 60 lb third peg 2 around 50 lb then weights came down drastically.
All of the pools generally fish better on the Sunday if fished Saturday but with 23 on it I think it will be hard mate

Old pool won with 79 lb fished up in the water
Sycamore won with 87 lb 16 meters on the bottom

Generally loads of fish showing on the top but didn't want to feed .

Good luck tomorrow mate I reckon peg 22 will win it again if peg 23 isn't in?

moonshine45

Cheers Dave,hope to draw a peg near the car park,I have copied and pasted the info you posted the other day, Thanks for the info let you know how i do tomorrow .