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Post by robmac on Aug 31, 2014 10:15:38 GMT
Had a lovely day fishing yesterday. Me and my mate Cookie have found an old resevoir built to supply a farm. Cookie approached the farmer with a view to setting up an angling syndicate to pay to fish the lake. The farmer said that he is only allowed by covenant to run 3 businesses on his land, so he could not run it as a fishery, BUT me and Cookie could fish it whenever we liked for free, as long as we kept it to ourselves!
The lake is about the size of a football pitch, and absolutely packed with small Tench and Carp up to about 15lbs. If anything, there are too many fish in there and it could do with a Pike or 2 introducing to thin down the numbers.
We caught loads of Tench and Cookie had 2 small Carp, the lake is very deep, and with a bit of thinning down of the fish population, I reckon they would grow to a fair old size, although to be fair, there is some predation as there are Perch up to 4lbs.
This was my first time fishing the lake, although Cookie has been a few times, catching up to 50 Tench on each visit, so things look very promising.
The farmer and his wife and daughters chatted with us whilst we were there, they are a lovely friendly family, and will be getting a decent xmas box from me and Cookie!
This is a dream come true for a couple of dedicated anglers and it's only 5 miles from home and in a lovely location!
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Post by n brown on Aug 31, 2014 10:50:33 GMT
sounds like your christmas came early mate |!
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