fished backlake swim 16 over night on saturday.After a snowy start at around 9:30 my left hand rod which was being fished by the branch to my left on 10mm pellet on a bed of mixed sized pellet stormed off.By the time i hit into it the fish had moved infront of me, unfortunately the hook popped out of its mouth.Back to bed we went.No more action untill around 2:00am when my friend went out for a toilet and found both sets of our rods on the floor and one of his missing.Pulling the rods in slowly luckaly his missing rod was attached to the line of one of my rods (BLOODY SWANS!!!!)As it was so cold we left the rods out till morning.No more action throughout the next day so we packed up and went home.Maybe next time ill take back leads.

Fished back lake today had 2 x carp to 5lb and a roach all on swimfeeder with maggot and sweetcorn hookbait

27/2/2008
fished the back lake today peg 8 didn't get a bite and it's still quite weedy,moved round to peg 5 agin at 1 oclock and had 4 tench

20 on the front to start with and then i fished peg 5 on the back

what peg did u fish on both lakes scott?

fished the front lake today up to 2o'clock didnt catch a thing so i went over to the back lake and got snapped twice snagged twice and caught 2 tench and a 7.5 pound commom carp all on caster.

I fished peg 6 (back lake) again yesterday 11am to 8:30pm. Ledgered a hair rigged luncheon meat cube to the edge of the lily pads close in (15 feet out). I used very little ground bait just some 3mm pellets. I started catching around 3pm and caught nine tench in all; the biggest was 5lb 4oz the smallest was about 3lbs. I discovered that perch don't eat 1cm cubes of luncheon meat but they will happily take a shot at anything smaller.

What is with all the perch in the back lake this year?

FISHED back lake swim 13 on 24th after 1 hour had a screemer on the carp rod using lunchion meat over the back lots of perch in between that and a bream of about 5lb after falling on my carp rod and snapping my bite alarm in two DOH! then lots of perch after that.

Rod thanks, i take it your not a gooner

Edited by author 07-20-2007 04:30 PM
I've been fishing peg 6? (second swim down after the bridge) on my last couple of visits. I fished from 11am until 9pm on Thursday (19th July) I caught two nice tench both about 3lbs. I lost 5 or 6 and was snapped up 3 times. I've dragged the right hand side around the perimeter of the lily pads (but only on the right) so it's nice and clean. There was loads of activity at the top end of the lake all day but it's weedy on the bottom and you pretty much have to drag where ever you want to fish to get any sort of bait presentation. I caught on pretty much everything in my bag (maggots casters corn) but they didn't fancy my home made vanilla and maple syrup bollies. Philistines! I also caught a bag full of perch. Brave the showers this weekend and benefit my hard work and let us all know what you catch. I might take a shot at peg 5 on Sunday.

Terry,
Nice crucian, shame about the shirt though mate Lol

front lake july 15th
4 1/2 lb tench (corn)
dozen roach op to 8oz (Corn)
loads of little perch(maggot)
and a cracking 3lb 1oz crucian a new PB well chuffed,never had one over a 1 lb before.

fished saturday 14th july on the back lake 4pm-7pm swim 13 using a carp rod with a cage feeder attached and a bunch of maggots on the hook had a few knocks on it but no bites.My second rod was a quiver tip using a small cage feeder and a size 14 hook full of maggot after 10 minuets of the rod being out i got a rod bending take hooking a 4lb 8oz dustbin lid.1 hour later and it bent round again hooking another bream of about 5lb after releasing the second bream and casting the rod back out i put it on the rest and off it went again landing a 5lb 8oz bream unfortunatly i had to help my lil cuz after that.

Fished back lake (peg 10) Thursday 4pm - 6.30pm. Fished with my son Mitchell (5 yrs old) and between us we had 8lb mixed bag of perch and roach all on pole / whip between 2-6m out on double red maggot on hook and a few freebies put in every 2-3mins

Fished back lake (peg 13) Sunday 8th July 10am - 3pm. Pole fished next to some lilly pads about 4m out using double red maggot as hook bait over groundbait mixed with micro pelletts. Good bag of perch topped of with a PB for me of a 6lb bream :-)

Scott,fishing 6 metre whip on the bottom 5lb main 4lb hook link,few free-bees and a little bit of strawberry flavoured groundbait