Coarse Fishing:
Following the hot weather in April our Carp spawned very early, consequently we closed our Main Lake for 6 weeks to give the fish a chance to recover. Since then the best fish so far has been a 23lb Mirror caught by John Conlin of Leeds off the “helicopter pad” and an 18lb Common. One angler from South Wales fishing very close in had a blinder of a day landing a total of 41 Carp in to double figures. His tactics were to sit well back from the bank with the rod butt on a rest and the rod tip resting on the edge of the fishing platform. He fished 18″ out from the bank in 2ft of water. Best times of the day are early mornings and after 4pm when the “dinner bell” rings and fishing on the top with floating baits, bread or dog mixer pellets, can be awesome. Some super bags of Roach in the 3/4lb range are also being caught with the occasional Tench up to 3lb. Very few Bream have been caught.

The Novices pool continuers to produce plenty of 3/4lb Commons and Mirrors with the occasional heavier fish with the best this year being a 10lb Carp.

Plenty of Carp are being caught in the House Pool with the best around 12lb, best Bream so far weighing in at 3lb. An exceptional Roach bag included 12 over the 1lb mark with the best at 1 3/4lb. In the first week of July a local angler caught and lost at the net a huge Roach estimated at well over 2lbs! Since January Tench have been caught regularly on sweetcorn!

Best bait has been maggots for the Roach, and Paste, Sweetcorn, Luncheon meat especially curry flavoured and Cat meats for the Carp, Bream and Tench with Bread and Dog mixer pellets as floating baits for the Carp.
 
Trout Fishing:
At the end of August 2006 the Weir lake was drained and left empty for some months before replanting it and then being re-stocked earlier this year. Since then Trout Fishing has been pretty good with some really hard fighting Blues and Rainbows coming out mainly on wet flies, buzzers, damsels, hoppers etc and tiny black dry flies during the last hours of day light One angler had a good 2lb+ Blue that went about 2/3rds the length of the lake before it could be turned – that’s hard fighting!

The other two lakes, Pallen and Derwen, have also produced regular sport with Trout in Derwen having a preference for something with a little pink in it! Again, mainly wet flies. Most Blue and Rainbow Trout are in the 2-3lb bracket with the occasional bigger fish. Fishing costs £10 for catch and release (barbless or debarbed hook), £14 for 2 fish, £18 for 3 and £24 for 4. Best bag so far has been 2 x 3lb and a 3 1/2lb Rainbow. Not huge fish but good sporting fish well worth the effort.

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