Bullock Farm Fishing Lakes

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Len Selman, a retired director from Yatton, recently fished peg 20 using luncheon meat over sweetcorn, a size 10 hook, 10lb line, close to the island to take, amongst others, this lovely double-figured carp.

Scott Webber has sent us further photos since his last visit (see below). Among his haul this time from peg 20 were 14lb, 12lb & 10lb mirror carp all falling to catmeat close in the margins on a float and hair rig with a size 10 hook. Scott had 11 good-sized fish in his bag.

Scott Webber from Sea Mills, Bristol had a great day fishing and sent us these photos:

Scott mainly used a maggot feeder with red maggots but caught some fish on a float on the bottom again with red maggots. He used three maggots on size 12 & 14 hooks and fished to the far side of the carp lake due to the wind direction on that day. The fish did vary in size but the tench was Scott's first-ever weighing in at approx 5.75lb, the mirror carp pictured was about 8lb, the hybrid was 1.75lb and the common carp was about 5.5lb. The rest of his fish were all around 3-5lb. He was gutted to lose a mirror carp estimated to be around 11-12lb having fought a hard battle for approx 10-15 mins.

Les Headington, a retired concrete worker, fished peg 1 of the Carp Lake recently and had this lovely 14lb 5oz linear mirror – a personal best. Les used a 7 hook and a 10lb line in the left-hand margin with luncheon meat on the hook and no feed at all. He had a further 2 x 12lb fish on the same day plus a scale-perfect 3lb 2oz crucian fantail.

Shaun Collins a Field Service Engineer from Bradley Stoke, caught this beautiful 14.5lb mirror on 23rd October 2007 using a piece of cubed bacon grill from peg 4 of the Carp Lake in the margins.

Wayne Chapman, from Hartcliffe in Bristol, caught this beautiful tench from the Match Lake on a 16 hook and single sweetcorn. It was a 5lb personal best for Wayne.

Mike Barber sent us this great photo of his Uncle Reg, 88 years young, who caught this twelve and a half pounder on the North Pool on 6th September 2007.

Tony Coombe of Clevedon brought his 13 year old son Tom fishing to Bullocks Farm on 24th August 2007. He fished from peg 6 on the carp lake, was feeder fishing and used corn on his hook. Throughout the day he was catching 6lb and 7lb mirror carp. At about 2.30pm he caught a 12lber, which is the biggest fish he has caught. Tony and Tom only took up fishing just over a year ago and were kind enough to say that Bullocks is an ideal location for them.

Richard Latham sent us this great photo of his son Robert with the 8.5lb mirror carp he caught from the North Pool. Robert is 11 years old, from Portishead, and has only just taken up fishing. Earlier in the session he caught a 3lb common carp, his first fish of any size, following up with this beauty. Robert was fishing with luncheon meat on a size 14 hook, 6lb line and legering in open water. As Richard says "the look on his face says it all".

Jon Palmer from Bristol hadn't been down for a while but tried the North Pool fishing peg 14 on the pole with a 3lb line, size 12 hook, using bread on the bottom with pellet and bread on the surface. He was rewarded with 112lb of carp to 8.5lb! Mate Roy Salmon fished peg 9 on the pole with bread on the surface to take 122lb of carp to 8lb. Cliff Salmon fished peg 24 with rod and line to the left-hand margins looking for crucians and tench - caught 51lb plus a few bonus carp for another 22lb. Jon sent us this great photo of 75lb of fish which made up part of his catch of 112lb.

Thomas Williams, aged 10, told his Dad, Pete, he wanted to try his hand on the Carp Lake as a change from the North Pool. He managed to catch his best fish ever - a 9.5lb mirror from peg 14. He also sent us these pictures of two lovely 8lbers caught from peg 10, using luncheon meat float-fished on a size 10 hook. As his Dad says “despite the nervous smile, he's as happy as a Bristol City fan in the championship!”.

We’ve also had these fabulous pictures sent to us by Wayne Locker from Essex who brought his family to stay with us on holiday. Wayne’s Mum, Chris, caught a lovely 13lb carp with a 4lb line, size 14 hook on a float rod. His son, Joe, 7, had great success with several fish weighing in between 8lb – 11lb but his best was another 13lber caught on a size 6 hook and 10lb line on meat.

Here's Blake White, aged 15 from Failand near Bristol with a beautiful common carp from peg 19 of the Carp Lake. He fished tight to the reeds with luncheon meat ledgered on a size 6 hook over hemp. (This picture isn't a thumbnail, you can only view it like this).

Sajjad Gani, aged 15, sent us this pictures is of an 11lb 9oz mirror carp. He caught it from peg 7 of the Match Lake using floating bread.

This is a super 15lb carp caught from the Carp Lake by George Mundell staying with us on holiday in the Six House. (This picture isn't a thumbnail, you can only view it like this).

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Ryan Pople, aged 7 years and 9 months sent us this super little report and photo:

"Fishing on Saturday 16th June 2007, peg 13 (unlucky for some but not for me). When we arrived it was raining for the first 3 hrs then the sun came out for the rest off the day. Fishing approx 3 and a half feet deep, using 8 pound line straight through to a size 16 barbless hook using sweet corn as bait and loose feeding 4 mm sinking pellets little and often, fishing 1 foot from the bank under the tree on the left off the swim, I hooked my fish at 12.30 a ten minute battle followed - the fish managed to get under a tree root but I got him out. My Dad netted it for me - it weighed 11 pounds 2 ounces (my first ever double). My dad was jealous as he has never caught a double! This formed part of a 12 fish catch, the others were all around the 2 pound mark. My Dad did catch his first ever fan tail which, although very pretty, only weighed 6 ounces! Thank you for a fantastic day, we will be back soon. From Ryan Pople aged 7years and 9 months .

Well done for beating your Dad Ryan!

Here's an e-mail we received from Ian Arthurs:

"Had a cracking day, caught 20 good decent sized carp (8 - 10lb) from the North pond. All caught of small pieces of meat fished in the margins, over pellet. Took my friend Fred Barber with me Carp fishing for the first time, and here's a pic of the first carp he caught".

Paul Cooper, Jordan Cooper & Tom Burton fished on the carp lake using strawberry luncheon meat. Here are a few of the fish they caught:

Here's a recent e-mail from Jason Ashley:

Hi, here are a few I caught on Saturday 26th May on the Carp Pool, peg 8 - all on dog biscuit off the surface. I had a good afternoon's sport. The ghost koi was 8lb and I also had several more mirrors and commons ranging from 5-7lb. All in all a good afternoon. Also my Dad caught a 7lb mirror on light tackle and centre pin reel - well done Dad!

Michael Mitchell, one of our season ticket holders, let us have these super photos of some of his recent catches:

Sajjad Gani, 15, from Long Ashton caught his first ghost carp from peg 21 of the Carp Lake on a hair rig with some luncheon meat on a size 10 hook.

He also caught these 2 carp from pegs 7 and, 8. They were caught on luncheon meat on a ledger. The biggest weighed 11lb 11 oz and the next one was 9lb 6oz. They were also caught on a size 10 hook with luncheon meat on hair rig,10lbs line and they fed on sweetcorn and pineapple pellets.

Blake White, aged 15 from Failand near Bristol, caught this beautiful 14lb mirror - his personal best - from peg 1 of the Carp Lake. Blake tempted the fish with luncheon meat ledgered on a size 6 hook.

Alan Moulsdale & son Theo of Brislington in Bristol sent us this cracking report and photos:

I felt I must write and send my appreciation to you for a fantastic days fishing at your complex on Sunday 24th April. I arrived with my 12 year old Son Theo, who was very eager to try out his first ever fishing licence (he was 12 in February). We fished the South Pool, which had always produced a good days fishing in the past. Within 10 minutes of casting out my son's first rod, we were into a fish! A lovely 6lb Common Carp! (a personal best). Five minutes later we were in again, this time a 5lb Mirror. Then a series of commons and mirrors were to continue to fall to our pepperami hair rigs all afternoon, the sizes between 3 and 5lb! My son Theo decided he wanted to try a different tactic. I switched him to a maggot feeder on his brand new rod bought with his own pocket money at the NEC Go Fishing show recently (a staggering amount of £4.00)! Before long he was catching again, 2 x crucian carp, a fantail crucian, an immaculate rudd and then the icing on the cake, a tench! This was a first for both my son and I. We had tried several times in the last year to bag a tench but they had eluded us. At the end of the day we had a total of 11 fish caught. He and I were absolutely thrilled! I hope you like the photos and are able to use them. Keep up the good work and we hope to see you again soon.

Jason Ashley sent us these super photos of his daughters Kimberley (8.5) and Caitlin (5.5) on their first ever fishing trip. They caught using maggots in the margins of Rushcombe Lake on Easter Sunday afternoon.

Russell Oliver, retired builder from Bristol, caught a beautiful 9lb 3oz common on his favourite peg 16 of the North Pool.

He has now bettered this with this lovely 16lber from peg 13 of the Carp Lake which made up part of a 100lb+ bag - his personal best.

Here's a great report from Ian Hughes of Weston super Mare: "Hi Phil, fished on Tuesday on the North Pool, thought you may like these shots for the web page. Over 60lb of carp, crucians and fantails caught on North Pool the day it was bitterly cold." Ian has also kindly put reports on www.maggotdrowning.com aka poleboy101 - go to the forums 'where you fished'.

Brothers Shane & Scott McLoughlin from Bristol fished pegs 5 & 6 of the Carp Lake and caught 11 fish, all over 8lbs in weight. Scott's biggest was a 15lb 8oz mirror and Shane's biggest were 13lb 4oz & 11lb 6oz mirrors. The brothers fished close to the island with 10lb line and 15lb hair rig - all the fish fell to luncheon meat on the hook and they fed sweetcorn and hemp.

Paul Worrell and friends stayed here on holiday again this year and ended their stay with a match on Rushcombe Lake. Paul won the contest with 59lb and there were excellent back up weights too as you can see. Here are the lads with part of their catches:

James White fished the Carp Lake with his friend Dan and younger brother Oli and all had a great day as can be seen from these fantastic photos. They used pellet over pellet on the bottom in the morning and went on to dog biscuit later in the day. James finished up with 80lb including fish to 8lbs, Dan ended up with 90lb which included a common of 12.5lb and a super ghostie weighing in at 8lb. Oli, who's only 13, had a magnificent 92lb including two doubles to 13lb. The pictures speak for themselves!

Chris Kibbey and Jon Rudd fished pegs 3 & 4 of the Carp Lake on their first visit to Bullocks in June. Chris' largest fish was a superb 16lb mirror caught using luncheon meat. Jon's largest was a lovely 9lb mirror using a squid/mussel paste. They had regular bites throughout the day and are already planning their next trip here. Chris on the left, Jon on the right.

How about this for a lovely photograph and e-mail sent to us by Ivon Maslowski:

“On the 30th May 2006 I came down to your lakes with my daughter Hannah Maslowski, aged 5 from Bristol. When I said we were going fishing all she wanted was to catch one carp. As it happened she caught 14 carp from Rushcombe Lake. She fished with a pole using light tackle and maggots. It was her first-ever fishing trip and she was delighted with the results. She will definitely be coming again, in fact she cannot wait to come down. I cannot thank you enough for letting her fish at your complex.”

Jensen Mannings stayed with his Dad and younger cousin on our Camping & Caravanning Club site at the beginning of June. This is a lovely carp he caught from peg 6 of the Carp Lake. Jensen says: “I fished with my top 3 sections in the margins when suddenly my float disapeared under. The elastic I was using was a 12 so it went mad I had the fish on for about 30 mins when it went on a wild run to my left. I thought I was snagged because I could no longer feel the fish pulling, I pulled my pole up wards and a twig started to emerge then completely out of expectation the fish was still there. It took me a good 20 mins after that before landing it. As soon as I got it in the net I was relieved”

Husband and wife team, Neil and Carole Thomas both recently achieved their personal best here at Bullock Farm. Carole managed to beat Neil with this beautiful 11lb 12oz mirror from peg 4 of the Carp Lake. Neil's equally beautiful (but not quite so heavy!) mirror, weighed in at 9lb 6oz from peg 2 of the Carp Lake.

Carole has since topped this with 'Mike Tyson' (the fish fought hard!) who weighed in at 12lb 4oz - her report and photo appear below:

And now... their godson, Fergus has caught his personal best from the Carp Lake. After one that got away in the reeds, he had a take from this lovely 6lb 14oz mirror carp. Fergus had only fished on Rushcombe before, last September, catching 46 small carp in a joint effort with Carole, but he managed to catch this one himself with just a bit of guidance. Here’s a photo:

Here's Gary Worlock from Bristol with a lovely 16lb 4oz mirror caught in October from the Carp Lake on a pole with 16 elastic, 12lb line using prawns as bait.

On his first visit to Bullocks, Stu Goulding, 39, builder, retired jet ski racer from Bristol, caught this super 22lb 4 oz beauty on a hair rig, tiger prawn bait, 12lb line.

The Rogers family from Devon recently stayed here on holiday. They sent us these fantastic photos:-

Roy Salmon has broken the North Pool pleasure bag record with this fantastic 134lb bag:

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He fished with rod and line with a 12 hook, 3lb line with sweetcorn over meat and sweetcorn on the inside margins. He had mirrors to 4lb, commons to 3lb, crucians to 2.75lb, tench and roach.

His mate Jon Palmer came 2nd to this bag with 109lb which also beat the previous record of 104lb. Here's Jon's catch:

Paul Worrell and the lads from Hertfordshire recently stayed in our holiday cottages. They sent us a great collection of photos of which this is a small selection:

Here's Malcolm Trent with a beautiful 10lb Ghostie from peg 9 of the Carp Lake caught on dogmeat:

This is Dave Townsend from Weston super Mare who caught his personal best 11.5lb mirror from peg 5 of the Carp Lake. He was on a 4lbs line and size 10 hook and fished to the inside right margin.

Gordon Morrison sent us this photo of his mate Nirmal Gill with a beautiful 8.5lb ghost carp from the Carp Lake.

"I had a great day last week. I fished peg 12 on the Match Lake and had a twenty pound bag of mainly of small carp and crucians to about 8 ounces but I had one good carp weighing about 3.5lb and a small goldfish. I used a pole tight to the island and down the margins using pellet over pellet".

"I came down on Saturday and had another great day with my brother, dad and friend Dan. I fished on the Match Lake with my Dad and Dan wile my brother Oli fished on the Carp Lake. We all did well and had a little competition going between the 4 of us. Dad won with a 33 pound bag from Match Lake peg 8 on catmeat and corn over pellet, I came second on peg 12 with 25 pound on casters, Oli came next with shallow catmeat on the Carp Lake, swiftly followed by Dan with 11pounds from peg 13 on pellet."

Martin Greene of Clevedon caught his personal best 16lb mirror carp from peg 1 of the Carp Lake recently. Martin, a keen Everton fan, used an 8lbs line, an open-ended cage feeder full of liquidised meat and crushed hemp, size 14 hook with double sweetcorn to tempt this beauty. This fish was witnessed and photographed by Phil and keen Liverpool fan Darren Vowles helped him land and weigh it!

Luke Morgan had an 87lb bag from the Carp Lake including mirrors to 7.5lb, commons to 7lb and even fantailed crucians to 2lb. He caught using a size 14 hook, 18 elastic, 6lb line and used bread. His haul included this lovely mirror carp.

Baz Simpson sent us this photo of a recent haul from the Rushcombe Lake - super fish in super condition

Roger Inglis of Nailsea had 108.5lb from peg 12 of the Carp Lake at the end of March 2005. The light was fading but here are some photos:

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To comply with our rules, Roger kept his smaller fish in a separate net from the larger ones. His haul included this lovely 9.5lb ghostie.

This is 14 year old Nathan James from Weston super Mare with a superb 15lb mirror carp caught on 29th October. Nathan managed to tempt this lovely specimen from peg 2 of the Carp Lake fishing on the pole, 16 elastic, size 12 hook, 6lb line and dog biscuit on the top.

Carlo Starsk caught this fantastic fish weighing in at dead on 15lb from peg 18 of the Carp Lake. Carlo used pineapple paste and fished to the edge of the reeds in the margins.

How about this for a personal best! Paul De-Vanney, aged 11, caught this super 15lb mirror carp from peg 11 of the Carp Lake. He used a size 14 hook, 6lb line, no groundbait and borrowed paste from his friend Tom Duckitt to achieve his personal best. His bag totalled 45lb and also included fish to 8lb and 7lb. Well done Paul.

Luke Cox of Kingston Seymour had this nice mixed bag during the school summer holidays.

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This is Paul Leonard from Bristol who fished 2 metres out from peg 18, using a size 16 hook and single white maggot, to catch this beautiful 16lb mirror.

Josh Forrester, aged 11, had a super day catching a total of 35lb on his first visit to Bullock Farm on 12th June 2004 with his Dad, Andre.

Alan Toogood

This is Alan Toogood from Hartcliffe, Bristol with a lovely 10lb common carp caught from peg 14 of the Carp in April 2004.

Mark Walsh

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This is Mark Walsh of Clevedon with a gorgeous ghostie weighing in at 10lb from peg 11 of The Match Lake.

Mike Hill

This is Mike Hill with a 7lb 4oz mirror that he caught with floating bread on The Match Lake

Robert Kingston of Kingston Seymour, April 2004

Roger Trent of Bristol, January 2004

Here's Roger with a superb 15lb common carp caught on catmeat from peg 9 of the Carp Lake.

Darren Vowles of Clevedon, November 2003

Daniel & Mike Brock, November 2003

Father and son Daniel & Mike Brock recently fished The Match Lake: Guess who won?!

Mike was fishing on peg 29 and Daniel on peg 28. Daniel broke his previous personal best with this lovely 10 pounder.

Allan Kabot

Allan Kabot caught his new personal best: this beautiful 9.5lb carp from the Carp Lake, using crabmeat paste in open water.

Bristol PSV

Matt Coombs of Bristol PSV Fishing Club kindly sent us these great photos of Dean Malin (left), James Creech (centre) and Shaun Gardner (right). The photos were taken during a match earlier this winter.

Laura Usher Aged 8

Proud Dad, Jeff Usher, sent us this photo of Laura with the first fish she caught at our fishery. She fished with a whip on peg 11 of the Match Lake using a single maggot to catch this lovely mirror carp. To quote Jeff "the look on her face says it all".

Stuart Graham with a superb bag of fish

from peg 7 of the South Pool.

Stuart fished on the pole fishing with a size 20 hook with a 1.5lb bottom line. He used maggot over maggot in open water to net Mirror carp to 5lb 13oz, commons to 3lb, tench to 1lb to make a total bag of 59lb 9oz.

Kev Perry Series

Kev Perry (far left) and regulars from his series of 6 matches which runs from March - June

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