Willinghurst Old lake

[tournament_pro]

Whats the old lake like?

whats the score on here, big carp? target weight etc

cheers

[TF_Dishyfish]

Tournament pro= Are you booked on this Sunday? If so I will be there on another match. Just ask for Del. I would say 99% of the time, the wider part of the lake is where you want to draw. Pegs used here are normally 1,3,5 and opposite which are 26,24,22. These pegs can produce to method, tebag, waggler. Coming out of the wides peg 19 is a good one and 14 can throw up, if wind blowing down that end. In short if you draw in the wides, you have a good chance of framing. Just fish with what you are happy with. Most baits work, but the wides do dominate most matches. Good luck and if your there Sunday see you there.

[TF_toplights]

Or you may just blank.~shh

[TF_Dishyfish]

Toplights massive lol!! That maybe correct you could blank lol. See you Sunday mate. No more loose feeding poles though.

[TF_toplights]

Delbert.I shall be on the bank with two (shorter)refurbished,long top twos,that bl@@dy Joe has still got my float,to add to the injury of keeping the allmost double figure carp that would have won me the section.You imagine how i felt to loose another just as big.they cost me points bigtime.Not for the first time,and it wont be the last. ~naughty ~naughty
Edit Must get some more Diawa CTK 10s,anyone out there got any for sale?,they have a white band round em.

[tournament_pro]

yes im on the open

It is nearly all rod and line work then?

Jason reckons 150-170lb to win

what do you guys reckon?

[TF_teabag]

@tournament_pro wrote:

yes im on the open

It is nearly all rod and line work then?

Jason reckons 150-170lb to win

what do you guys reckon?

Maybe in the height of summer, more around 80/100lbs at present. Carp around 6-8lbs will be the average.
Did a couple of hours late afternoon last Saturday, sat on peg 19 and fished sweetcorn 5 meters to the right down the edge and caught well, lake was quite – be a bit different if a few are booked on a match.

Old Lake link

[tournament_pro]

cheers for that mate

Are those pics old? he said theres 26 pegs but it shows 30 on the photo

looks a bit tight with all pegs in

every other peg though should give plenty of room?

hoping the sudden warm weather has got a few stirring about

[TF_teabag]

pegs 1 to 26 only are used during matches.
the picture is a few years old, but the pegs are the same and a bit more vegitation round the lake.

if struggling on pole line – feeder/teabag to the sunken island right down the middle of lake.~shh

[TF_Pikey]

When you get more than 12 anglers on the lake it tends to switch off completely except for a couple of pegs.

[TF_toplights]

If i had 60lb i would hope to be in the frame this time of year.170lb i would say is a tad optimistic.

[tournament_pro]

its come mega warm

gotta be optimistic lol

ill probably blank now

[TF_toplights]

TP,If its that warm,all the fish will be wanting to do is spawn and you’l catch sweet FA.lol.
Anyway,you’l meet a load of lunies at Willy, so your day wont be compleatly wasted.~clap ~clap

[TF_Pikey]

I wouldn’t think that Old lake will have warmed up enough yet for the fish to spawn.

I think there are 10 booked in at the moment so assuming that nobody else books in then it might be quite good.

[tournament_pro]

what I meant is when places suddenly warm up at this time of the year they usually go crazy if its sudden

like 250lb at tunnel barn etc,
300lb at rolfs suddenly

who knows…..

sounds a good craic anyway, 6-6.5 hours so plenty of time to fish badly

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It was said tongue in cheak Pikey~think,are you booked in then?

[TF_toplights]

TP,you woulden’t catch 300lb if you fished it for a week.~hand
It’s not like it was in the good old days. ~shh

[Method Man]

I have had 187lb on the pole from peg 18, but that seems like a lifetime ago, i think a ton should do it !

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Where you living now MM(Tony)?Cookoo land?Big Chortle.

[TF_teabag]

Day ticket lads caught plenty today, one of the lumps at 25lb has been moved – so that’s one less to worry about.

places were capped at 14 for tomorrow ~clap
for which Jason has had a bit of flack from others trying to book on today.

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@toplights wrote:

TP,you woulden’t catch 300lb if you fished it for a week.~hand
It’s not like it was in the good old days. ~shh

If any lake could it would be old, last years top weight was around 250lb, and a few more 200+ wins.

[TF_teabag]

@tournament_pro wrote:

what I meant is when places suddenly warm up at this time of the year they usually go crazy if its sudden

like 250lb at tunnel barn etc,
300lb at rolfs suddenly

who knows…..

sounds a good craic anyway, 6-6.5 hours so plenty of time to fish badly

With it being that long, a few of you will be going home pretty red after sitting in the sun.~hand

[TF_Pikey]

14 is too many on Old !
They could have taken a few more and put a section somewhere else.

[TF_teabag]

Yes they could have but with Mosley taking 2 of the other lakes up and day tickets/nights in full swing, they are going to shut another whole lake and lose money for what would be a small section.

Any news on the results ????

[TF_Pikey]

Wouldn’t need to have closed a whole lake – coul dhave just pegged the back spit and bomb hole.

Todays Result and guess where the weights came from !

Ben Emery………Peg 24…….84-14-0
Lance Buckle……Peg 1……..84-2-0
Hayden Woods……Peg 26…….82-12-0
Glenn Wills…….Peg 3……..70-10-0
Andy Quarmby……Peg 22…….67-0-0

The far end was rubbish, I had 13-10-0 from Peg 12, Ross had 2 carp from Peg 14 and Plummers had 2 carp from Peg 17- what a waste of a day and It was bleeding hot on our bank !

[TF_teabag]

So are saying all the descent anglers drew the other end. lol

The place is keeping up as per usual then, sounds like you had a day like I did last Saturday on Pittance.

[TF_Rossn]

Rumour from yesterday, I can’t possibly comment 🙂

Jason / John caught well on beef Coshida on Saturday from pegs around 5 – 7

Fact is that although the pegs in the “wides” always produce top weights when there’s a few anglers on the lake, those pegs had a blank peg each side of them but pegs 5, 6 and 7 were all in the bag.

John and Jason drew pegs 5 and 6 and were the first two to pack up. The pegs in the wides produced the first 6 places

And….all beef Coshida had disappeared from the shelves of the on site shop…it will probably be back later today ~clap

[TF_toplights]

I cant quite grasp what your saying Rossn.A bit less criptic for us numptys please.~think ~think

[TF_MICK THE BOOKIE]

Malcome….If you really cant see what Ross is inplying,i think you should go back to bed mate…lol.
10 tins of Beef for me please…..Nah..not really i will be emptying Llids my self today,if Brian Wallin and Don Garnish have left any ….that is..lol.

[TF_teabag]

@Rossn wrote:

Rumour from yesterday, I can’t possibly comment 🙂

Jason / John caught well on beef Coshida on Saturday from pegs around 5 – 7

Can honestly say the Saturday bit is wrong, John was not there all day and Jason spent the day in the Cabin and the only gear he got out was his old carp gear to sell off.

Believe it or not I actually spent saturday pleasure fishing for silvers on Horseshoe, now that is somthing which is hard to believe. lol

[TF_Rossn]

Malcolm , Yeah, it doesn’t read right, I’ll try again

The rumour was that John and Jason had fished it on Saturday and caught on beef flavoured Coshida. Yesterday that flavour had disappeared from the shelves, It was suggested that it had maybe been removed ~think

My main moan was about the pegging. I spoke to them before the match and said that whenever there are loads of people on the lake that all the fish move into the “wides” i.e. Pegs 1 – 5 and 21 – 26 opposite. I was told that they knew best and they pegged 1 3 5 6 7 10 12 14 17 19 20 22 24 26.

I have no idea why they would peg 5 6 and 7 together but leave out 2 and 4, unless of course they’d been practising somewhere around pegs 5, 6 and 7…who knows ?

As we expected, pegs 1 3 24 & 26 filled first 4 spots, pegs at the other end of the lake struggled for a bite.

[TF_Rossn]

Believe it or not I actually spent saturday pleasure fishing for silvers on Horseshoe, now that is somthing which is hard to believe. lol

Mark…were you moving the silvers for Paul ?

I do agree that it’s hard to believe that the king of the teabag was fishing for silvers, whatever is the world coming to ??

[TF_teabag]

started the day off on the pole and was catching a silver a put in, everyone else were struggling for carp so I stuck with it, did not know they wanted some moved till around lunchtime and that’s when I put a net in, moved around 40 decent size Roach/Rudd and one F1, all the small silvers were put back in Horseshoe.

Actually enjoyed the day and might have another go next week.

[TF_Rossn]

Actually enjoyed the day and might have another go next week.

Be careful mate, you’re drifting towards the dark side ~naughty

[TF_toplights]

Got it Ross,shall wait for the comments with interest,most regulars will have loaded up with CM,i have to say i havent,i hear Aldi are now doing it,must get down there.(before the Don).~shh

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