With generally warmer weather fishing is almost at it's summer best with some great fishing and big catches over the last few days. The ponds and the Main Loch are producing well now with occasional bags up to 100lb on the Island Pond and 50lb on the Main Loch. Sometimes conditions can be Spring like and cool rapidly though so, as always, it's worth a check with Ronnie in the shop for the best advice on where to go and how to fish.

Island Pond

Fishing brilliantly again with some pleasure anglers reporting that they have caught good sized fish all day and their total catches would probably add up to over 100lb.  Carp are now feeding aggressively and big Tench to 5lb are often showing in catches. 

  Ide are also showing well and they have obviously been growing fast with many fish well over 1lb and Darren Ferguson nearly broke the 3-hour match record on the first Monday evening match with Ide.   Carp of 6lb are getting caught daily.

Corn and Pellets are working well now for Carp.  Key at this time of year is how much to feed - still worth taking it easy to start with, but once you start catching it can often pay to step up the feed to draw more fish and get them competing.

In the deeper pegs near the cafe there are always plenty of small fish to keep you busy including Roach, Gudgeon and Orfe. These can be caught close in but be prepared since the odd big fish can move in and surprise you!

Main Loch

Still taking time to warm up to it's Summer peak but some very good bags to 50lb can be had in the right place at the right time.  Carp, including thousands of newly stocked Carp of 3-6oz and many bigger Carp to over 3lb, are feeding well and making up a lot of the bigger catches. 

Skimmer Bream are starting to make an appearance too and should show much better over the next few weeks.

The fish are starting to come closer onto a pole line and fish can sometimes be caught very close in. Maggot and Pinkie are still the most consistent baits at the moment but Pellet and Sweetcorn are working well for Carp.

Top Pond

Top Pond is fishing really well now with new 'stockie' Carp livening up catches and Carp up to 2 1/2 lb showing up.  Orfe are also feeding well with catches over 20lb solely of Blue Orfe !

Maggot and Pinkie are baits that are working well but the Carp will still take Corn and Pellet pellet is starting to work better.

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