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5 July
Entry posted by Chris Plumb
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Wylies Lake - Newbury
0430 - 1200
Warm and mainly overcast. 10º->25ºC
8 Perch!
Not fished here for some seasons - after it recieved a rather severe scalping which took out all the margin vegetation. However I had heard of good tench catches this season - and even whispers of some half decent crucians showing up. A recent recce confirmed that it hadn't received another haircut recently - in fact it looked just as I remembered it - so with some anticipation I was setting up in a favoured swim of old at first light. I needn't have bothered! The lake looked very quiet and out of sorts - the odd fish topping but very very few bubbles - and those patches which did show looked too big for feeding tench. As for the fishing, I was very quickly between a rock and a hard place. Starting with meat and/or black pudding (my PB tench was caught on this from this pit back in 2003) quickly brought in the crayfish. Maggot was instantly nailed by the legions of perch. I fished most of the morning with 6mm hookable pellets - which at least avoided the attentions of the crays and the perch - and everything else! By the end I was on sub 2lb bottoms and size 18s and still couldn't buy a bite.
Ho hum - can't win them all! 
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