A small rectangular pool with a central island running down the spine and 20 well spaced pegs, Willow Pool is popular with pleasure anglers.

Stocks were supplemented early in 2012 with a further 300 comons and mirrors making Willow a predominantly carp water.

The most recent of the three Pipehill Fisheries waters having been completed only four years ago, Willow has fewer features than either Alders or Hollybush and is stocked mainly with a mix of carp and roach.

To ensure the fish are of a decent standard, the pool is netted every year and the smaller fish removed.

Willow has banks which slope to a four feet six inches deep central track and the island can be reached easily with the pole.

Because the banks are more open than the other two waters, this is popular with groups of two or more anglers as they can see each other and converse more easily.

Again a popular pole and waggler water, Willow holds commons and mirrors averaging between 5lbs and 6lbs with the odd fish to 9lbs, a good head of ghosties to 6lbs and a large number of stock carp to about 1lb.

To improve the fishing, all the roach which were previously in Willow Pool were removed and transferred to Hollybush in Winter 2011.

Most anglers going for the carp again tend to use luncheon meat, sweetcorn or soft hooker pellets fished over a bed of feeder pellets as the fish in Willow are well used to feeder pellets because they are fed regularly with them when the water has not been fished for a day or two.

Good baits for the roach are sweetcorn, casters, maggots and tail end of worm.

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