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

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.

Rod thanks, i take it your not a gooner

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.

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 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.

what peg did u fish on both lakes scott?

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

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

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

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.

the back lake carp are on the feed had 4 out tue.

Jim, what sort of weight were youre carp?

fished peg 17 thursday 4O'clock till 7 O'clock caught 7lb of roach and disabled gary was fishing in peg 11 and he was catching some nice bream and tench on the method.
Also jimmy price was over there agian and ha had another carp before i left.
It's really picking up now,shame that the cold weathers gonna probly put a stop to it for the weekend though

fish weights 20lb 8oz common a new one for me.
19lb common, 17lb mirror, 16lb common, 16lb mirror, 8lb mirror, 7lb common and i lost two and had two tench. all over 3 nights total of 12 hours fishing. now thats not bad !

jim is there ane chance of tellin me ya secret coz i mite be goin ova tomoz