Nestled in the tranquil countryside of West Wales, only 4 miles from Lampeter, Celtic Lakes Resort offers a massive 75 acres of outstanding virgin water fishing, superb fishing holidays and the warmest of welcomes. Choose from 6 well stocked lakes, each landscaped to perfection with stunning native and tropical plants and waterfalls. Each lake is brimming with coarse fish including bream, perch, roach, rudd and tench, as well as carp to 30lb+ and catfish to 50lb. Celtic lakes resort is one of the few fishing holiday destinations in Wales to stock catfish so if you can handle a huge cat, Celtic Lakes Resort is where you’ll find it.
With the introduction of 40lb+ specimen carp and 50lb+ catfish in October 2007, Celtic lakes Resort is set to become one of the premier “big fish” waters and fishing holiday destinations in the whole of the UK. More information at: http://www.celticlakesresort.com
Recent Catch Reports:
Celtic Lakes has been producing some truly excellent catches this week. The Wales carp record for a 48 hour match was broken recently during a qualifier for the Wales Carp Masters with the winning pair banking 609lb of fish. One of the catch reports we received this week puts their estimated catch weight for 48 hours at over 1000lb – staggering !!
1. Anthony Budd – 29th July 2007
Summary:
Weather was mainly dry except for 1 night of rain
Notable Fish:
Mirror carp to 17lb 12oz, commons to 17lb – over 75 fish landed between 5lb and 17lb with a big percentage of them being doubles over a 48hr session.
Tactics and bait:
boilies over spodded area
2. Phil Norris – 29th July 2007
Summary:
This was my first time on Celtic Lakes, myself, Anthony Budd [3 visits] and my son Jess. I was physically knackered. The rods never stopped going off. I pulled my rods in during the night to get some sleep [lol]. My son had about 60lb+ of small fish. I had about 40 fish, Anthony Budd had between 70 to 80 fish. On Sunday morning Anthony had 20+ fish off one rod.
Notable Fish:
Too many to say. We had about 100+ fish from 6lb up to 17lb [lost count]
Tactics and bait:
boilies, pva bags
3. Ian Oxley – 29th July 2007
Summary:
This was my first time on Celtic Lakes, myself, Anthony Budd [3 visits] and my son Jess. I was physically knackered. The rods never stopped going off. I pulled my rods in during the night to get some sleep [lol]. My son had about 60lb+ of small fish. I had about 40 fish, Anthony Budd had between 70 to 80 fish. On Sunday morning Anthony had 20+ fish off one rod.
Notable Fish:
We had about 20 fish in total.
Most were around 8-10lbs and Keith had a small catfish around 10lb too.
Tactics and bait:
Feeder tactics using Keith’s special method mix, size 6 hook to a tigernut boilie. PVA bags and pellet combo’s as well
4. Keith & Thomas Supple – 22nd July 2007
Summary:
This was our first visit to the fishery as I wanted to do a report for my web site www.nutsaboutcarp.com. This was a fact finding trip but we enjoyed it so much were coming back really soon! Weather was a mixture of heavy showers, blustery winds and some sunshine. About 16 deg c.
Notable Fish:
Common carp 14lb 5oz, 12 lb 8oz, 12lb 2oz, 12lb.
We also caught a further 17 commons and mirrors between 8lbs and 12lbs.
Tactics and bait:
3 rods were placed on the ledge of the island in around 4 ft of water. These were baited with a new greengage boilie we are currently field testing. This was placed into a PVA bag of mixed pellets. The other two rods were placed just the other side of a weed section about 25 yards out and featured a hi viz snowman pop up on a long shank size 6 hook to 360 rig on one rod and a bottom fished Tiger nut bait on the other. 4-5 kg of my own spod mix was trickled in to this spot over the whole day.
Tom Supple
Keith Supple
