North Pool
Young Charlie Harris (unfortunately a Bristol Rovers supporter – not that we would hold that against him!) stayed with us recently along with his Dad for a Bullocks break – camping and fishing. Each day he fished peg 21 and poled sweetcorn and paste fishing 6 meters towards the island. His best bag was a fabulous 106lb of crucian and common carp – the biggest fish being 10lb.
Carp Lake
Chris Heading caught a personal best 18lb 4oz mirror from peg 8, following this up the next day fishing pegs 20 & 21 with his mate, Dan, to get a total bag between them of 304lb! The smallest fish of their 40+ carp was 4lb and the largest were 15lb. Chris used a method feeder with groundbait and pellet on the hook.
Lots of 100lb bags coming out of this lake. All the usual baits are working: luncheon meat, paste, bread and dog biscuit. But the bait of the week has got to be strawberry flavoured sweetcorn which has been consistently catching big bags from all pegs on this lake.
Rushcombe Lake
Chris & Dan, mentioned above, fished this lake for the first time in a 5-hour head to head match. Dan had 42lb and Chris had 35lb and between them they used a kilo of pellets, half a pint of maggots and caught commons to 6lb.
Our younger fishermen are doing really well at the moment as proved by Luke Nix who has caught the largest fish so far from Rushcombe Lake – the first double-pounder. A picture of Luke with his beautiful 10lb common is on the photo gallery of our website. Luke fished on the pole with a size 16 hook and luncheon meat from the margins of peg 5. Overall he finished up with a lovely 90lb bag of fish.
South Pool
Keith Firks fished peg 5 of this lake for an excellent pleasure bag of just over 50lb, which included 34lb of roach, mirrors to 6lb, fantailed crucians to 0.75lb. Keith used catmeat on a size 12 hook with a 5lb line and 14 elastic. He fished 7 feet out from the right-hand margin and caught best when he used no feed at all.
Good to see this lake producing again.
Match Lake
Rafal Rybarczyk has sent us some cracking photos of fish caught on corn from the Match Lake – on the gallery of our website proving that both lovely tench and carp are being tempted.
All areas of this lake are producing good pleasure bags with paste, pellets and sweetcorn being the most consistent baits.