Onto my session, on arriving at Weston pools I realised that I had forgotten my Barrow so had to carry my gear to the lake on this I picked peg 1 on belvedere being pretty close to my car. The lake it's self is stunning with beds of lily pads excellent margin features and a massive plus point for myself the pegs(platforms) were more than big enough to accommodate my seat box, side tray and still room to get on and off my box safely. I started off fishing shallow will 6mm fishery bought pellets using a dibber style float 0.2 to 0.15 mainline and 0.11 hook lengths.

 There were plenty of fish in the swim but bites were few and far between so having remembering something Ian Jones had mentioned to me I switched to maggots shallow. I caught a great amount of Ide averaging around the lb mark so soon built up a great weight on Ide alone. Whilst fishing shallow I also managed some impressive mirror carp up too 12lb great fun fishing shallow. But another reason I decided on belvedere was an elusive Barbel the other team members know this species is my nemesis I just couldn't catch them. By around 1 o'clock I still hadn't landed a Barbel so quick text and some more info from Ian.

 On his information I started potting in large cups of just maggots right tight to the near margin within minutes at long last had my first Barbel in my landing net at long last. From there on I proceeded  to catch plenty of Barbel up to around 6lb, outstanding sport from these fish and I still managed some decent sized carp and a few f1's. Margin rig consisted of again 0.15 mainline to 0.11 hook lengths to s16 B911 hooks. This was an outstanding session I really enjoyed the day from catching loads of Ide in open water to Barbel down the margins.