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Anyone ever fished there?

Supposed to be a great pike water only really found by boat though.

 

Anyone fished from the bank?

 

I have passed it many a time and wondered....

 


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I have never fished it Dave but I believe the Pike & Carp fishing was run as syndicates. I am not sure if they still are but it might be hard to get much info on the Pike, you know how secret squirrel synidicate types can be at times. I had heard there are a lot of Pike in it and good sized but that is only hear say and so don't really know if it's true or not.

Stephen

 

Species Caught 2014

Zander, Pike, Bream, Roach, Tench, Perch, Rudd, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Eel, Grayling, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout

Species Caught 2013

Pike, Zander, Bream, Roach, Eel, Tench, Rudd, Perch, Common Carp, Koi Carp, Brown Goldfish, Grayling, Brown Trout, Chub, Roosterfish, Dorado, Black Grouper, Barracuda, Mangrove Snapper, Mutton Snapper, Jack Crevalle, Tarpon, Red Snapper

Species Caught 2012
Zander, Pike, Perch, Chub, Ruff, Gudgeon, Dace, Minnow, Wels Catfish, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Roach, Bream, Eel, Rudd, Tench, Arapaima, Mekong Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Marbled Tiger Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Thai Redtail Catfish, Batrachian Walking Catfish, Siamese Carp, Rohu, Julliens Golden Prize Carp, Giant Gourami, Java Barb, Red Tailed Tin Foil Barb, Nile Tilapia, Black Pacu, Red Bellied Pacu, Alligator Gar
Species Caught 2011
Zander, Tench, Bream, Chub, Barbel, Roach, Rudd, Grayling, Brown Trout, Salmon Parr, Minnow, Pike, Eel, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Koi Carp, Crucian Carp, F1 Carp, Blue Orfe, Ide, Goldfish, Brown Goldfish, Comet Goldfish, Golden Tench, Golden Rudd, Perch, Gudgeon, Ruff, Bleak, Dace, Sergeant Major, French Grunt, Yellow Tail Snapper, Tom Tate Grunt, Clown Wrasse, Slippery Dick Wrasse, Doctor Fish, Graysby, Dusky Squirrel Fish, Longspine Squirrel Fish, Stripped Croaker, Leather Jack, Emerald Parrot Fish, Red Tail Parrot Fish, White Grunt, Bone Fish
Species Caught 2010
Zander, Pike, Perch, Eel, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Mirror Carp, Common Carp, Crucian Carp, Siamese Carp, Asian Redtail Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Rohu, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Pacu, Long Tom, Moon Wrasse, Sergeant Major, Green Damsel, Tomtate Grunt, Sea Chub, Yellowtail Surgeon, Black Damsel, Blue Dot Grouper, Checkered Sea Perch, Java Rabbitfish, One Spot Snapper, Snubnose Rudderfish
Species Caught 2009
Barramundi, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Wallago Leeri Catfish, Wallago Attu Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Mrigul, Siamese Carp, Java Barb, Tarpon, Wahoo, Barracuda, Skipjack Tuna, Bonito, Yellow Eye Rockfish, Red Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, Black Fin Snapper, Dog Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Marble Grouper, Black Fin Tuna, Spanish Mackerel, Mutton Snapper, Redhind Grouper, Saddle Grouper, Schoolmaster, Coral Trout, Bar Jack, Pike, Zander, Perch, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Common Carp, Golden Tench, Wels Catfish
Species Caught 2008
Dorado, Wahoo, Barracuda, Bonito, Black Fin Tuna, Long Tom, Sergeant Major, Red Snapper, Black Damsel, Queen Trigga Fish, Red Grouper, Redhind Grouper, Rainbow Wrasse, Grey Trigger Fish, Ehrenbergs Snapper, Malabar Grouper, Lunar Fusiler, Two Tone Wrasse, Starry Dragonet, Convict Surgeonfish, Moonbeam Dwarf Angelfish,Bridled Monocle Bream, Redlined Triggerfish, Cero Mackeral, Rainbow Runner
Species Caught 2007
Arapaima, Alligator Gar, Mekong Catfish, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Pacu, Siamese Carp, Barracuda, Black Fin Tuna, Queen Trigger Fish, Red Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Honeycomb Grouper, Red Grouper, Schoolmaster, Cubera Snapper, Black Grouper, Albacore, Ballyhoo, Coney, Yellowfin Goatfish, Lattice Spinecheek

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I used to fish it about 15 years ago - for roach. Increasing numbers of bream made a decent catch of roach more and more difficult so eventually I moved on to other waters. If you wanted to (which I didn't) a concentrated assault on the bream would have your catch measured in crans rather than pounds.

 

Also fished the small pond in the reservoir grounds - orfe up to 3 lb if you could avoid the carp.

 

Dunno what the present set-up is, when it attracted carpers and pikers the prices went up, so that was an additional reason for leaving.

 

Here is one of the orfe

 

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PS Just looked at my old records - "15 years ago" was not a bad guess, I last fished it in 2000

 

Roach to not much over a pound, and one thing I had forgotten - hoards of roach-bream hybrids

One other disincentive - bank fishing was pretty messy - Canada Goose crap everywhere.

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World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

Certhia's world species - 215

Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501

 

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Roach to not much over a pound, and one thing I had forgotten - hoards of roach-bream hybrids

One other disincentive - bank fishing was pretty messy - Canada Goose crap everywhere.

 

I had a ticket when it was a trout fishery, superb fishing but I left and "moved on". When I rejoined it was being stocked with fewer but larger fish, 3 pounders and upwards. Not long after it all went tits up and the trout fishing stopped.

 

Several years later I got a ticket to catch the reputed big roach, "loads of 2 pounders" load of b####ks more like, caught hundreds and never saw anything like a two pounder...............but..............it may have changed after I left.

 

there were some huge pike in there. I had one which towed my boat half way across the ressy. I was being followed by 2 other boats who were planning to help net the "monster" , but it got off when the huge white lure I was using (wink wink) came undone. It was very likely one of the forty pounders!

 

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Would agree with that Den, I had a lot of roach, but very few over the pound, and about 1lb 4 oz tops.

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World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

Certhia's world species - 215

Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501

 

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...only things like fresh bait and cold beer...

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Whilst the pike and carp fishing is run on a syndicate basis I believe that general coarse fishing can be had by joining Edenbridge angling club. I used to match fish it quite a bit and there are quite a lot of the decent size Bream that you were after in your other post.

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I recently was invited to join bough beech but 'I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member'....Don't you just love groucho...LOL

 

 

 

Kidding Ken kidding....:)

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