Fishery News

April 2009

Recently a carp was caught out of the Traditional Lake with a barbed hook and line still in it's mouth. The Coarse Lakes are barbless hooks only, any one caught using barbed hooks will be asked to leave. If anyone is unsure of the rules they on the back of your ticket and are downloadable from this site.

April 2009

The 1st of April see's the start of the foxearth trophy which runs from the 1st of April to the 31st of October. Entry fee is £10 and you have to be registered to enter, there is a three rod maximum and each catch has to be witness with picture to count.
The prizes are as follows:

1st Prize: Largest weight of Carp. £500.00
2nd Prize: Most Carp in 24h consecutive hours. £250.00
3rd Prize: Biggest Carp. £100.00 worth of fishing.

Dont forget you have to be in it to win it.

March 2009 

The fish are now starting to move around. The Carp have been on top in the Carp lake with a 27lb 14oz leather mirror caught from zone 1 and the same day an 18lb common from zone 8 as well as on Saturday Bruce stalking one of the new mirrors, which he managed to catch on a zig rig weighing 14lb 4oz.

Phil had a good day Saturday on the traditional lake, catching a mixed bag of around 30 fish with none under half a pound. He had 14 carp with the biggest being 6lb 8oz.
On Sunday another good mixed bag from the traditional lake with a beatiful 6lb 8oz tench amongst them.

October 2009

The Traditional Lake has been fishing really well throughout the year with a Tench touching 9lb and other 5lb, 6lb and 7lb plus making an appearance. Now the weather is turning some nice 2lb plus perch are starting to get caught with a usual assortment of carp coming out as well as nice sized roach and rudd.
We have decided to wake up the Pleasure lake and create some competition for the nicer sized fish we know are in the, so we have introduced a large number of smaller carp to get thing going.

For the Pleasure and Traditional Lakes to encourage people to submit more photo's we we are starting to run photo of the month. If you submit one of your traditional or pleasure lake catches in digital form (email, disc etc) and it gets picked for photo of the month you will get a free day's fishing.