fishing report week ending 29th April, 2007

Hello everyone what a wonderful Spring we are having. The weather has brought out lots of anglers to enjoy some sport. Here is the fishing report.

Main Lake (Carp)
What a cracking week we had carp wise. Some of you will already have heard that David Coup caught a lovely 39lb 8oz common from peg 24/25 last week. We have put the picture in the gallery. This fish has caused quite a stir and I am waiting with baited breath for a 40plus to emerge. As you all know a 40lb 8oz carp was caught by Chris Boyle some time ago but sadly this was not verified by one of our bailiffs. We do have a photograph of this catch. We now have a ruling that all fish over 30lb must be verified and photographed by one of our bailiffs. David Coup's tacic was a small bed of corn and hemp with a home made boilie on a short hair rig with a long hook link. There have been lots of other carp caught too. Mark Richardson caught a nice 29lb mirror from the dam wall using a single boilie with a few loose baits. Successful pegs have been 24/25, 71/72, 61/62 and the dam wall. The following other carp have been reported as caught. 10lb grass, 17lb mirror, 13lb koi, 11lb grass, 13lb common, 15lb common.

Doughnut Lake (Pleasure)
Again good results from this lake. Mr. Taylforth recorded a nice 50lb bag of fish using pole with paste over pellet with a size 16 hook. Other anglers have reported bags of 20 to 30lb, whilst some anglers struggle to get through small silvers into the bigger fish.

Main Lake (Pleasure)
Still on top form with Jack and Bob (two of our regulars) catching 40lb bags of skimmers and silvers. Both anglers fished round the 40 yard mark. Ryan our resident trainee fisheries manager fished and caught a nice 97lb bag of bream and skimmers. Ryan was using feeder tactics. He prebaited his swim with ringers dark and special ground bait along with chopped worm fcaster and pinkies used as offerings on the hook. Ryan used a hook link (B911 Kamasan) and a three foot leader.

Fly Lake
A little up and down at present. Cats Whisker, buzzers and damsel are getting the best results. With the weather getting warmer the rainbows and browns tend to go into deeper water. However, early morning and evening is seeing flies fished just under the surface. Here are the averages.

Monday 1.6
Tuesday 2.0
Wednesday 1.3
Thursday 1.4
Friday 5.4
Saturday 2.5
Sunday 2.0

GENERAL
Philip and I keep getting asked by a number of people "IS THE FISHERIES UP FOR SALE?"
We have always tried to be as open and honest as we can. So I would like to use this opportunity to try and explain the current situation. Originally the fisheries was bought as a family consortium. Some of you may recall that Sue and Tony lived on site in the company house up until a year ago. Tony and Sue decided to retire last year and move back to the South of England. At that time we had sold the fisheries and two days before we were due to sign contracts the would be purchaser (for whatever reason) decided not to proceed. In the end Philip and I decided that we would look after the fishery and continue to talks with any other interested parties. In effect, we are "caretakers" and whilst we want to carry on all the good work and effort that has been put into the fisheries, we are mindful that we cannot do it forever. We would like to think that some day we will find a safe home for the fisheries, and perhaps someone that will take the fisheries and make it even better than it is today. Whilst we have not appointed an estate agent or the like, there are some details about the fisheries posted on the businesses for sale website, so that interested parties can get at the basic information. Our staff know that we cannot carry on forever and are aware that we are often approached from time to time by interested parties.

Well folks its Bank Holiday this weekend coming (so lets hope the good weather continues). I look forward to seeing some of you on our banks.

best wishes

Lin at Pendle View