02.07.21 - Willows
Perhaps I should have expected it. After a week of vets bills, repeated hitting of my funny bone on the elbow with tendonitis, breakdown of my newly serviced hedge trimmers mid job, followed by multiple bee stings when disturbing a subterranean bee hive while clearing up the few leaves I'd severed, a second consecutive quiet session at Willows was almost inevitably on the cards.
Knowing the carp would be in the upper levels, I experimented with a zig-based rig once the morning winds had eased, suspending a pop-up just under the surface from a bomb. Surface fishing with the Bonio would have been preferable, but there are so many bloody birds it's just too stressful (at one time I counted 24 birds in my sector of the lake (4 mallards, 6 shelducks, 1 grebe, 3 Hawaiians, 4 coot, 1 moorhen, 5 Canada geese).
Results: inconclusive: the popped-up pop up induced some suck-and-spitting before connecting with a rather gormless looking 6lb Common, to top up a hard-fighting, pristine, beautiful, yet only 2lb 4 Mirror on the method feeder in the morning.
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