John Bailey – The Kingfisher Diaries
July 30th 2010
July Round-up
Can I just reiterate that the shop now is up and running under the excellent management of Kelly, site manager Matt's wife. I think she's done a brilliant job and I'm sure it will be really useful in the years to come.
I'd also like to highlight the fact that more people are actually fishing Willow Lake with serious success. The tench that have been coming out have been really great fish, several over six pounds in weight. And I mean quite a bit over.
The key to fishing Willow, as I've always said, seems to be all about putting in bait. There are
vast amounts of silver fish in there so you've got to bear this in mind. Small boilies, smaller pellets and anything the roach and rudd can't get their mouths round seem to be favourite. Quite a few of the anglers I've talked to report serious bubbling activity after bait has gone in and I guess the more people that do fish, the more the tench begin to make an appearance.
Talking to our holidaying anglers, it's apparent that quite a few of you like to think you stand a chance of bigger carp in the three smaller lakes. Let me assure you, there are a handful of twenties in Lily Lake. Not many but they are there. Equally, in Willow, there are a few very big fish still present. It wouldn't surprise me at all if a thirty-five pounder came out sometime in the summer. Wow!