Feedback & Reports

Amazing contrast to yesterday - rain and very strong wind. Fished further along by trees which afforded some protection. Some roach to corn. Groundbaited area with swim stim betaine green + micro pellets. First sign of a carp was big areas of the silty bottom being thrown up (it is very shallow). He finally got around to my single piece of corn and turned out to be 5lb common. I was expecting a beautiful untouched specimen but he looked like he'd gone 12 rounds in the local commercial - disfigured mouth, scales missing, a real bruiser. Surprising. Still, he gave a good fight. 20 mins later there was another who wandered in but he wasn't interested in my bait. Then the wind became almost gale force, so time to go. Perhaps worth another visit in summer to tempt the bigger ones.

10 Other

An oddly shaped but pretty lake which is very shallow. As others have mentioned, one bank is not accessible and there are plenty of areas where fishing is not possible. I set up in the bay nearest parking spot. Beautiful clear day. Feeder (hemp-based ground bait) with corn was pretty ineffective although a couple of small roach did take the bait eventually. Stalking the margins with meat/corn yielded nothing, although I imagine it's a great tactic in summer. Plenty of small roach to maggot under the rod tip but it only keeps you interested for a while. I agree there doesn't appear to be a great number of big fish here although it probably wasn't the best time of year to find out. A real change from the usual commercial with just the cattle for company. Great directions and service from the Foundation. I'm back tomorrow as well.

20 Other

Spent the first two thirds of the session stalking carp with meat or trying to catch them on floating baits. Switched to float fished maggots later in the afternoon and caught about 35 roach, half a dozen rudd and a chub.

1 Chub, 40 Other

Fished from afternoon until evening for carp using s/corn , l/meat, floating crust, without any luck. Casting to bubblers and to surface fish but they just weren't interested. Lots of fish showing on surface but only saw 1 fish take 1 of the many free offerings. Better luck next time maybe. Thanks to WUF for the easy booking service and for opening up venues such as this one.

Floatfished bread and sweetcorn to take a good number of roach, rudd, chub and one common of 7.5lbs. The type of fishing we enjoy, you never could tell what the next fish would be and always in anticipation of it being another carp, the only one having come early on in the session.
It was a sweltering hot day but the bites came throughout. Plenty of carp showing on the surface.
We found this a very pleasant, well stocked lake and can't wait to come back.
Again the Foundation's service was exemplary.

5 Chub, 11 Other

Float fished sweetcorn. 2 roach, 1 rudd all in excellent condition. Carp present but not feeding during what was a very hot, bright day. Lovely venue, many thanks.

3 Other

Nil caught today. Plenty of fish seen though...evidence of the carp spawning which I will use as my excuse.

A very frustrating day - really really windy quite cold and the threat of heavy rain. Only one fish seen breaking the water - had absolutely no bites on the float or ledgering - went for a walk around the lake and saw some bubbles close in to the bank - dropped a bit of bread flake into the water and boom - float gone and hooked into a large fish. After a great fight managed to land it - pristine 13 pound common carp. Almost made the day worth it but overall a very disappointing session due to the combination of poor weather and little action. I love the location though and will definitely be coming back for a third attempt!

1 Other

Second visit to the pool. On the first, though my brother and I caught nothing, we did observe a number of carp feeding avidly upon our arrival, though this seemed to end quite quickly with our presence.
With this in mind, planned an early start this time and arrived at around 7.00am. Took a stalking rod and went along the pool; given the somewhat cold overnight temperature it was not surprising that I saw very little activity for an hour or so.
Eventually found carp bubbling, cast to them, after a short while the float slid away and I hooked something that went off like a scalded cat, stripping about 30 yards of line off the centrepin! After an interesting fight in the shallow water, I netted a Common that I estimated to be about 8/9lb.
As the day progressed and warmed somewhat, a number of carp were seen cruising on or just below the surface and at one point I had a group of three fish taking floaters, though very spasmodically. As one of the other anglers who has previously visited the pool commented, I don't think that there is a massive haed of carp in the pool, though given the number of places they can take refuge that might be a dangerous assertion to make. During the day there was a fair amount of activity along the far bank, particularly in the corner, to the left of what I take to be the monk and I also watched one or two fish moving slowly under the overhanging branches of trees on the island. There were a few intermittent flurries of activity at the back of the island, which could have been fish trying to spawn.
My brother fished a small method feeder, across on the far bank where we had seen carp activity and had a 3lb bream mid-afternoon.
Like so many WUF waters this is another venue that affords visitors the ultimate in peace and tranquility - though the main road runs quite close to the estate,you pretty quickly find that the traffic becomes insignificant.

2 Other

Only three carp crashed on the surface all day (tight to the unfishable opposite bank), and only two other carp seen cruising around just below the surface. No bites or any feeding activity seen, despite warm day and perfect viewing conditions. There appears to be very few carp in this shallow lake, and not being able to fish one whole bank is a big disadvantage. Nice place to spend a day though.