Island Pond
Fishing has been excellent with great catches of Ide and Carp
showing strongly now and catches over 30lb are common. Bobby Marshall
had the best pleasure catch last week, estimated around 70lb including
at least 40 carp over 1lb, Ghosties to over 4lb and Tench to over 4lb.
Sweetcorn was the best bait and spring is a time when corn starts to
works really well.
Tench are also 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 with
Caster working better 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.
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.
The pole is working well now and should become the best method over
the next few weeks. Feeder and Slider methods are still working 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.
Previous Reports
18 April 2005
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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