1st January 2012

  

  

  

Happy New Year to one and all.  We hope you all enjoyed the festive season and are now ready to try out your new rods!

  

  

Rushcombe Lake

 

This is the easiest of our five lakes but, as always, this is a testing time of year to catch fish.  It was therefore good to pick Pete Sivell’s brain recently when he was here practising for the forthcoming Fry’s series.  Pete always seems to have the ability to catch whatever the weather and he told us that he was using liquidised bread over pinkie to catch a 27lb winning weight.  This was on a day when it was very nice to welcome back Clevedon Angling Club who shared the lake with Fry’s making a total of 28 anglers in all – so plenty of pressure on the lake.  Clevedon’s match-winning weight was 31lb with good back up weights. 

 

The way to go is to fish light and feed very little.  Pete also said if feeding micro-pellets, imagine they cost you £1,000 per kilo – ie you don’t need much!

 

 

Match Lake

 

Regular readers of our report will know that we very recently put 300 specimen tench into this lake (both green and golden) so it’s particularly pleasing to see these lovely fish already coming out.  You need to be fishing light – around a 20 hook with a 1.5lb bottom line with either a single red maggot or a small piece of chopped worm on the hook.  Feed a few maggots or micro-pellets. 

The roach in this lake are also showing well and have been caught with caster on the hook over casters.  Crucians have also been showing out in open water.  The best pegs to head for are 14-25 inclusive.

 

 

 

South Pool

 

We have put some lovely bream into this lake (see the photos and report on our website) which is giving this lake a lovely colour.  The aren’t really showing yet but it’s obvious they are feeding so try fishing out in open water just with a hook bait.  Let us know how you get on.

 

 

 

North Pool

 

This lake is also an excellent colour and as Ben has trimmed the banks, you can go really light in here.  Try using the same tactics as Rushcombe Lake to catch a good mixture of pasty-sized carp and silver fish.

 

 

 

Carp Lake

 

It really pays to walk around this lake before you start fishing.  Fish the areas where you see good colour and you can see the fish moving.  If you do this, fish with a 16 hook and a 4lb line with a variety of small hook baits, you can then expect bags of up to 50lb including some doubles.