ner ner ner ner to you aswell! lol
Anyways, Buddliea is my favourite pool from all three, the average peg is 16m wide unless you start going towards the low 60s where it is only 13-14m wide and bare clay bank on the islands.
Its for want of a better description a canal pool, but the fish go from oz to 15lb in there, you can catch down the side but now its gone cold i would expect the weights to come from the high 80s or low 50s where the reeds come out from the island some 4ft now, you will have around 4-5ft of depth by these reeds and if your not quick the carp will bury you in them aswell.
the pegs to be are something like 83, 73, 63 all these pegs have corners of the islands and 73 has no reeds, so fish tight to the far bank clay.
Without doubt the best bait is pellet, but corn will also work very well. The best hook bait for the far margins is corn, although an expander will work but is also more likely to be snafulled by the voracious rudd and roach.
There are hordes of silvers aswell to aim for but you will get beaten by carp weights.
Rig wise i would have 4×10 floats up the far bank with 0.14 line and 14/16 hook, then down the shelf (around 3ft) I would use 4×12/14 if its windy, again .14 line 16 hook.
The middle doesnt really throw up that many fish from my experiance, but it would be worth setting up a line for this.
Margins well whatever your comfortable with.
I should imagine 60lb will win, but the middle and first island will be more likely to throw up the bigger weights.
Something that is well worth trying is fishing half depth by the reeds whilst catapulting the feed pellet over, corn or expander or small banded pellet will work very well.
You have to use his feed pellets which are around 4mm, they are only £1 a bag and you will nedd around 2-3bags just in case.
I would reccomend that unless your on the reeds start off by putting a tosspotof bait over and fish strait over the top and dont worry bout the other lines for 5 minutes and see if you can bag a bonus early.
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