With the weather now warming up following the recent cold spell, many fish can now be seen rolling on the surface. Here on the coast in mid-Wales it is now very mild and signs are that the fish are already beginning to get ready for spawning.
Many anglers are catching good bags of roach, bream, carp and the occasional Tench. Best fish recently from our House pool has been a 3lb Roach followed by a 6lb Tench. Both caught by Mr Pickering of Swadlincote in Derbyshire, caught well out into the pool using a mixture of particles and maggots.
Several families have had great fun fishing in our Junior Pool with plenty of kids catching some fine roach, carp and skimmers. In the Main Pool plenty of quality fish are being caught on all baits with luncheon meat, bacon grill and bread being the staple baits. Maggots and sweet corn are also doing well.
Recent catches have included 3lb Bream, 4lb Tench, 1lb plus Roach and plenty of Carp between 2lb and 8lb. Relative new comer to coarse fishing Stuart Hudst of New Quay (Wales) had a 6 1/2lb Common from the margins using bacon grill and a newcomer trying Nineoaks for the first time, Paul Wells of Burryport, Llanelli had a 10 1/4lb common as dusk was closing in after having caught many Carp and Roach during the day. Many other anglers have been catching up to 34 carp using floating bread or stalking with bread. We had suspended our monthly Coarse matches with the long cold spell, they will be resumed from May.
On the Trout side, we have had many anglers catching their limit with plenty taking 3lb fish regularly. Although plenty of fish are being caught it is not easy fishing with anglers working hard for their catch. All fish are in superb condition, fully finned and clean. Most fish have been taken about 3 feet down on a mixture of buzzers, montanas and fry imitations, mainly using floating lines. No large fish have been taken although several anglers have reported being broken. All three pools will be back in operation in the next week or so. We had suspended our monthly Trout matches with the long cold spell, they are being resumed from May, so do come along and have a go.
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