Your own Fishing Lake

[Guest Ferret1959]

chesters1:

16? ok get as many a levels as you can ,go to uni for as long as it takes to become a lawyer or top banker (or politician) put all available funds into offshore accounts or swiss banks ,become head of huge conglomerate (continue hiding funds) become a non executive director of many other companies ,award yourself huge pay rises and share packages retire at 50 with huge golden handshake (or get sacked with the same result) buy nice house with lake then employ me as gardener (quick as poss please) as for the scales keep you eye out at carboots for scales ,weigh the fish subtract the weight of net ,good luck

Chesters

Don't you think you will be past it in 34 years time.

[Hereford_angler]

Its something i would also like to be able to do in later life. At the moment i training my ghost and koi carp in the pond to eat sweetcorn! Im 16 also but im 15 if you have to pay extra for over 16s!

[chesters1]

ferret , yes ,i am past it now but due to NOT having any qualifications if i`m still alive then i`l have to work ,no retiring for the poor

[Dunk Fairley]

Best way to get ypour own fishery? get a large scale O/S mapand an Aviation Navigation Map and start travelling. In Kent for instance, there are hundreds of small lakes and ponds, which were dug for Marble mines by the Romans. These can be very deep, up to 30'. When the sides collapse, they level out to about 5' deep, but the surface area expands accordingly.

 

A lot are totally invisible from the road, but can be seen from the air and are used for navigation purposes (ergo the Aviation Map)

 

Go to the nearest Farmhouse FIRST, ask politely if you can either see the pond now, or who you can write to to explain what you want to do. Either that or ask in the local pub, as there are probably some of the farm workers there, then you're on your way.

 

Start small and don't expect it to happen overnight.

[Steve Burke]

Good post, Dunk.

 

That's how I found Wingham. Took me 15 years looking at every speck of blue above about an acre on Ordanance Survey maps of mid and east Kent.

 

I got permission to fish innumerable ponds and stretches of river and stream - many for free. However, I bid for just 4 lakes, the last one being Wingham.

 

I wanted just the 15 acre pit that's now the Carp Lake. But it was all or nothing and no time for a proper survey. It didn't seem too bad at first as a quick look with a fishfinder showed that, whilst the Carp Lake was empty, the older 40 acre lake was stuffed with fish. However, apart from the very odd big carp we later found, all the fish turned out to be predators.

 

That was a cost I hadn't budgetted for!

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Steve Burke:

However, apart from the very odd big carp we later found

Can we have more details about this very odd carp? Just how odd was it exactly?

[Steve Burke]

Whoops! For odd read old. Peggy reckons I'm both!