As Ronnie says, the carp ponds are 'fishing their head off'!  The Top Pond is on top form and the Island Pond continues to give big catches with 30lb catches not unusual.  The Main Loch has been up and down in the last week but good sport is surely 'immenent' given the expected warm weather to come.

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!

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