{"id":150,"date":"2008-03-25T18:36:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T17:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/readers-query-willow-lake-at-mas-bas-information\/"},"modified":"2013-11-25T15:09:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T14:09:39","slug":"readers-query-willow-lake-at-mas-bas-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/readers-query-willow-lake-at-mas-bas-information\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the bottom like in Willow Lake at Mas Bas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Craig Lea-hair wrote:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">What type of bottom is Lotus at Mas Bas? I\u2019ve been thinking about what type and colour hook link to use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gareth Watkins replies:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Willow cottage 02\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/willow11.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>First off you\u2019ll love <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/venue\/mas-bas-main-lake\" class=\"kblinker\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More about Mas Bas &raquo;\">Mas Bas<\/a>, I went to Lotus with my family last summer when I shot the video. We had a great time; if you look at the DVD, you can see my kids having fun and William catching a fish. We did not fish very seriously as it was a family holiday, with borrowed equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway in regards to your query, the lake has a fairly firm bed, but bearing in mind that it was previously chocker with the lotus lilies there is a fair amount of silt, not deep enough to pose you any real problem.<\/p>\n<p>We found the best tactics were to fish close to the far margins, and lily beds to the far end of the lake. There is a fair amount of cover there for the carp so you can bet that they\u2019ll all be up there once people are around the terrace area.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWe fished mostly with PVA bags cast to the spots and baited up by walking round and using a catapult or by hand. This produced takes on the few days we did fish.<\/p>\n<p>A word of warning: don\u2019t stray far from your rods, as the fish will find cover very quickly on this lake. My son lost a few by not covering his rods properly and got a telling off for it too. There are few big fish in this lake so it pays to fish well to have a chance of landing one.<\/p>\n<p>Finally regarding hooklink choice and colour\u2026 My preference goes for snakebite as it is dark in colour, strong 25lb BS and versatile. We fished it combi-link style with Quest Baits Smokey Fish snowman presentation. This gives the hook bait a certain buoyancy, which is useful over softer lake beds. I would perhaps try a brighter bait too like a pineapple bait on one rod as a contrast to the dark bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your stay in this magical place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Lea-hair wrote: What type of bottom is Lotus at Mas Bas? I\u2019ve been thinking about what type and colour hook link to use. Gareth Watkins replies: First off you\u2019ll love Mas Bas, I went to Lotus with my family last summer when I shot the video. We had a great time; if you look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,1072],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest","category-mas-bas-lotus-lake"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}