Island Pond
Fishing has been super recently with great catches of Ide and Carp. Double figure
bags are the norm and catches over 30lb are common. Tench are
feeding strongly and Malky Ward had 4 averaging 4lb in a great catch
estimated between 40 and 50lb.
Ralph Farrell also has a big 40lb catch including big Carp and
tench to 5lb. Pellet and Corn are working well for Carp now with individual fish
to 5lb. Gus Brindle broke the Island Pond match record
with 38lb 12oz (report
here). 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 still being taken. Caster
is coming into it's own and is catching loads of Ide now.
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.
The biggest fish recently was a 4lb Mirror Carp that Milo and Jamie
fought for 15 mins (both of them!) on a light elastic. 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 ponds to warm up in the Spring. This
means that we are still in a transition period from Winter to Spring and the
fish can be unsettled. So one day can see great catches like
Davie Duncan's 40lb of Carp and Skimmers last week including fish to
3lb, then the next day the fish can seem to switch off
completely. The fish can be to be up and down and difficult to
predict. My late April with better weather things should improve considerably.
Feeder is still catching along with the Slider in deeper water but
on wamer days the fish are inclined to rise up in the water and have
been caught as shallow as 4ft deep and less. 10 to 12 ft deep
has been most consistent recently. The pole is working well now
and should become the best method over the next few weeks.
Previous Reports
25 March 2005
28
February 2005
22
January 2005
18
December 2004
25 October 2004
27 August 2004
26 June 2004
25 May 2004
27 April 2004
21 April 2004
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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