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Rules reminder

A reminder for those new to the lake, you must bring an unhooking mat and a landing net and these must be available in the swim of each angler. Janet is walking the lake every day now and is taking no prisoners. Three anglers were asked to leave on Saturday because they had no mat and one landing net between them. We are strict on the rules because we care about the fish and we only want anglers that are going to look after the fish that they catch. There are signs on the gate also reminding people so there are really no excuses. Please check the Rules page here or the board in the lake car park.

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All kicking off!

A few days of warmer weather and the fish are suddenly much more active. A number of anglers have been enjoying good sport and on a variety of methods. Method feeder with pellet hookbait has been catching when fished against the islands, as has the usual pole tactics.  Young Ellie from Fleggburgh has been fishing short sessions and has had several carp to 6lb fishing sweetcorn in the margins, great fishing! I had two short sessions of just an hour and had several carp off the surface. Feeding and fishing floating trout pellets I had some quite big fish queuing up. The biggest I managed was about 9lb, but I will be having another go soon!

Spring Catch up

OK, so it has been a while since the website has been updated for which I apologise. We will try and post current news and catch reports on a regular basis over the coming months. The main task this winter was replacing a number of swims. It was hard work lugging the timber around and breaking up the old swims. I tried to do as much of the work as possible when no one was fishing, which inevitably meant when the weather was being unkind! Still at least we had no snow and precious little ice this winter. In the early spring Janet and I spread a tonne of chalk over the lake. The chalk is intended to improve the water quality through helping micro-organisms that live in the silt to thrive, reducing the amount of silt, improving oxygenation and providing calcium for invertebrates. Spreading the chalk is a bit of a nightmare! Dragging forty 25kg sacks around and loading them into the boat was back breaking work and the chalk gets everywhere as the pictures show.

On the fishing front things had been slow up until a week or so ago when the sun managed to raise the temperatures enough to get the carp moving. Last Thursday after a sunny day I fed a whole bag of floating trout pellets to some very hungry fish. I had carp rising in every swim in the lake as I walked round. A few carp are now being caught, but they are not yet giving themselves up. Try fishing in the margins near cover and move swims if you don't get results. Bait wise luncheon, bread and pellet are all catching fish. The silver fish and tench are feeding avidly and small baits such as maggot and sweetcorn will guarantee bites nearly all day long. (26 April)

Winter Update

The mild weather this winter has certainly kept the fish moving. Throughout the mild, windy, wet weather the carp fed well in short spells. The trick, as always, was to find out where they were. Even in a small, well stocked lake such as ours it is important to be in the right swim. A couple of times I started in one swim and had no bites, watching the water closely I would spot some bubbling or a fish roll and move to that area. Once in the right spot bites would come stright away. On two occasions in January I landed 14 carp up to around 6lb. Depending on how well the fish are feeding I would vary the set up. On harder days a couple of maggots on a size 16 hook to 2lb hook length would be needed to get the bites. On busier days a size 12 fine wire hook on 4lb trace with a big bunch of maggots would work. Feeding maggots and small pellets regularly is required, again on harder days literally 3 or 4 every 5 minutes and on busy days stepping it up a bit. Look out for the low pressure mild weather fronts and give it a go.

I am working on the swims at the moment. Some are being completely replaced, others just tidied up a bit. Please be careful and avoid the work in progress areas. (January 2014)

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