Back to basics and lessons learnt

This is where I fished at Lakeview. One of the first pegs, nearest the first car park and on the pleasure lake.



A place that I have ignored over and over again, until I fished the pleasure lake last year with PC as all other lakes were full.

Anyway the long and the short of it was, fished just three sections out under the trees. Caught around 30lb of small chub and carp up to 3lb. At points it was a fish a chuck. Eventually they were all up in the water to the extent that they were going for the end of my pole and pole cup!! Could easily have caught a huge bag full. Only fished in this peg from 10.30am-1pm. Started in a different peg but the wind was just too much, pole snapping a risk, so had to moved around the lake. Would liked to have had two swims across to the island and the margins for full bag up. All on corn. Only one other person on the lake - strange for a bank holiday.

Bottom line a day on the pleasure lake, without gale for wind, is worth a session. Caught crucians, rudd and as many chub as carp. Some really nice pegs on the lake which could be feeder to the island, defiantly too far for even a 16 metre pole. Belief is that the pleasure lake is not hit as hard as the match lakes, where larger fish are wising up - perhaps we have been going wrong for some time here! Also many of the pegs you need to have at least a 14 metre pole to reach the island so less pressured. Enjoyed it just needed some competition with nets in.