hi mate if its boddington reservoir in northants your interested in my club had a match there recently and the weather did everything snow, rain, wind, etc. I won the match on hairrigged cat meat or sweetcorn (the new bag'em baits scopex) in concunction with a method feeder. The pole can work but mind out for the rocks especially when plumbing up if your plummet goes down between them you won't get it back
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