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Weston Lakes, Peakirk, 19th March 2011

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For Satuday, Mark and I decided to try Weston Lakes just outside Peakirk in Peterborough. We arrived at around first light, but had difficulty finding the lake.  Turns out it is behind a large house on Thorney Road, just as your leaving the village of Peakirk, indicated by the red circle.  What a great looking lake/large pond, would love to have this behind my house. We fished adjacent swims indicate on the map.  My swim had an underwater hazard of a lilly bed which wasn't showing yet!!! Approach for the day for me was pole, Mark went for waggler and method feeder. It was a beautiful day and the big winter jackets came off, I even got a bit of sun burn to boot.  I never took the camera out which was a mistake, sorry. Very early in the session I opted to use Daiwa Hydro Blue (5-8 rating)... big mistake!  I hooked a couple of roach on pellet and then the float buried and I was into something decent.  This is where my lack of local knowledge and the submerged lilly bed c