Island Pond
Fishing has been excellent in the last two weeks and anglers who
fish well are consistently getting great catches. Double figure
bags are the norm and catches between 30 and 50 lb are common.
Mr Hughes has had some super days recently topped by a catch on Sunday
estimated around 70lb including 35 Carp.
Pellet and Corn are working well for Carp now with individual fish
to 4 1/2lb. Tench are also feeding well the best recently being
the 4 1/2lb Golden Tench caught by Sinclair Yates last week, a
spectacular fish. Chopped Worm is a good bait to pick out the
Tench and is also good for Ide.
Good catches of big Ide to over 1lb are also happening.
Maggot is still good though Caster will become more important soon and
Worm is taking plenty of Ide too.
Top Pond
Warm weather has really switched the Carp on and the pond is
'fishing it's head off'! Many people are catching a Carp every
cast with F1s up to 1lb feeding ravenously. Pellet is by far the
best bait for Carp but Maggot is also good and will catch the Ide and
Orfe too.
Main Loch
Because of the deeper water the Main Loch usually takes around 3
weeks longer than the Carp pond to warm up in the Spring. This
means that we are in a transition period from Winter to Spring and the
fish can be unsettled. So one day can see nice catches like
Chris Hughes 25lb of Carp and Skimmers last Saturday including fish to
1lb, then the next day the fish can seem to switch off
completely. The fish appear to be up and down and difficult to
predict. My mid April things should improve considerably.
Feeder is still catching along with the Slider in deeper water but
on warmer days the fish are inclined to rise up in the water and have
been caught as shallow as 4ft deep and less. The pole will
become more and more successful in the coming weeks.
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