Island Pond
Continues to give fantastic fishing. Even when
temperatures cool down (it is Spring after all) the carp are still
obliging and the F1 carp are feeding strongly backed by lots of fish
of all different species, especially Ide.
In the last few days a number of catches around 30lb
have been taken. Brian Docherty has been doing consistently well
again and had approaching that weight yesterday. He found
feeding a fair amount in a pole cup very regularly got the best
response. Like others, he also found that though Jelly Pellets
are very successful, maggot can often fool the bigger carp when they
get wary of pellets.
Stuart Black also had a great catch including 66
carp for well over 30lb including many F1s over 1lb and one beauty of
2 1/2 lb. Jelly Pellets are very successful just now but maggot,
sweetcorn and worms can pay off when the carp have seen a
few too many pellets. Lots of small tench are also showing along
with lots of ide approaching the 1lb mark. Young James Woodrow had a
2lb Tench on Sunday.
Top Pond
'Fishing it's head off' for both common and F1 carp.
If you get it right you can catch one every cast. F1 carp are the bigger fish,
between 12oz and over 1lb. The biggest carp recently was
2lb 14oz. Pellets now catching best with maggots and sweetcorn are
as backup baits.
Main Loch
Has been up and down in the last week. Some
nice catches for pleasure anglers but matches were hard at the
weekend. Good colour in the water bodes well for the predicted
warm weather expected this weekend.
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.
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
12 April 2004
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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