Island Pond
Some fantastic fishing over the last week. On
Tuesday Mr McMillan had an estimated 50lb of carp from the far end and
Brian Docherty & John Elder had mixed bags well over 20lb.
Mick Ezard took the biggest fish of the week with a beautiful 4lb
Ghost Carp that took him 20 minutes to land on a small hook and size 4
elastic!
On Wednesday Chris Hughes estimated around 40lb
including 3 carp over 3lb and lots of big F1s to 2lb all taken on
sweetcorn from a peg far down the right side. Again today Brian
Docherty & John Elder (the most consistently successful pair on
the pond) had between 20 & 30lb.
Joe Molloy has also been catching well with carp
and tench on every visit (sh***y shoes to his friends) again doing
consistently well with his 'short-rod' method.
Jelly Pellets are very successful just now but
sweetcorn and worms are starting to pay off when the carp have seen a
few too many pellets. Lots of small tench are also showing along
with lots of ide approching the 1lb mark.
Top Pond
Pumping some fresh water through on Sunday has
transformed sport which was flat on Saturday. Now everyone is
catching lots of the newly stocked carp and if you fish it right you
will catch one every cast. F1 carp are the bigger fish,
between 12oz and over 1lb. The biggest carp recently was
2lb 14oz.
Pinkies & maggots are still good but pellets and sweetcorn are working
well now and picking out the better
fish.
Main Loch
As the water gradually warms up, the pole is
starting to catch more fish as the fish come closer and up in the
water. Feeder and slider tactics still produce consistently well
though. The pegs in front of the cafe down to the tree are still
most popular and successful in matches but pleasure anglers are taking
good catches all over.
Skimmer bream are showing up much more in catches
with the odd bigger bream to over 2lb. Maggot is still the most
successful bait for bream and carp. Be ready for some of the bigger
carp to 3lb, most are getting lost at the moment!
Previous Reports
3 April 2004
18 March 2004
18 January 2004
26 December 2003
17 November 2003
27 October 2003
7 October 2003
29 July 2003
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