Latest Catches: Up to and including Thursday 20/11/09
Re. the KHV outbreak at 'Long Island Lake'. CEFAS have also placed a 'Designated Order' (DO) on our site because we are so close, even though there has not been an outbreak on our site. Our lakes can still be fished but extreme care needs to be taken with nets, reels weigh slings and unhooking mats etc. CEFAS insist that you carefully use our net dips before and after your fishing session. These dips are near the new building on Virginia, in the B-B-Q area of Willow Walk lake and in the second swim down from the first gate on Coot Lake. Also please wash your gear once you get home and leave any piece of equipment outside to thoroughly dry in the sun, before using it again
Please make sure these net dips are used by all our members and everyone washes off the diluted chemical solution in the freshwater bins provided. Also please quickly report any significant changes to us in the condition of our carp.
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************Important notice************
It is clear that anglers piling in the bait are catching well at the moment. So the few anglers reluctant to bait up, who are'nt catching, may possibly see where they are presently going wrong. Heavy ground baiting does not have to cost a fortune. In addition, a good way of maximising your bait is to fire out only 4-5 boilies periodically. This will avoid your freebies fattening up the seagulls rather than drawing the fish into your swim and holding them there. We wish everyone tight lines.
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As well as lots of much bigger fish there have been lots of attractive stockies coming out, which unfortunately seem to upset some anglers (even though they fight really well for their size) but remember a stockie of today is a potential 30 or 40 of the future!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!On the question of stockies, one or two are coming out already with mouth damage. Needless to say this concerns me as I've invested a great deal of time , money and effort into these beautiful little fish, for the long term benefit of the site and the members. They are very distinctive in one particular way, which makes it very easy for them to be identified. When playing these delicate little fish, or for that matter any fish, please exercise great care and make sure all captures are handled and returned carefully and quickly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you are planning a session on Virginia or on Willow don't forget to mix up at least a couple of buckets of ground bait, which needn't cost the earth if you use CSL type sheep pellets, hemp, bread flake, chopped worms, some maggots, a catering tin of sweetcorn as well as a kilo of fresh broken boilies and quantities of carp pellets. If you can scrounge some left over cakes/ bread from a friend who works in catering, or who supplies functions etc, it will all go into the groundbait mix to help you catch those bigger fish. Believe you me there are some superb 20s and 30s to be caught.
2009 Virginia catches:
10/04/09, Bernie Skeels has just come back from an enjoyable carping trip in France. He is obviously still in the groove after banking a 32lb 04oz mirror during the night. It is the first 30 from Virginia this year but I'm sure it will not be the only 30 to be banked from this water in 2009, by a long way. Well done Bernie!!!! He would like the big mirror named 'The Sheriff' as it has one distinctive scale on its right sid
04/05/09, By Monday of bank holiday plenty of freebies had been put in, tempting the fish to feed strongly. Michael Tapp came for a short day session and caught a pretty looking 22lb 08oz common, while I was there talking to him. Gary Maddison was back onto the fish when he landed a 24lb 12oz common and Glen Cooper was not to be outdone as he banked a mirror of 26lb 06oz. Stuart Osgathorpe also produced a 26lb mirror, while the duo Northfiefd and Pryor added mirrors of 16lb 08oz and 28lb respectively.
08/05/09, Darren B. was again into fish, catching a common of 23lb 10oz, a mirror of 26lb 06oz and a linear of 27lb 08oz. Nick Thorpe had an 18lb mirror and Stuart Osgathorpe produced a 23lb 08oz common and a 15lb mirror. As the day progressed Bernie Skeels banked "Allens" at 33lb . This 'Simmo' fish came out two and a half years ago at 27lb 02oz. I was pleased to witness this fish being caught on both occasions. I hope I'm there when it comes out at 40+.
09/05/09, new member Chris O'Dowd quickly got onto the fish with a 25lb 08oz mirror and a 26lb 10oz common. The excellent catches continued with a mirror ('The Sherrif') at 32lb 09oz and a Mirror of 29lb 08oz, both taken by Michael Mead.
14/05/09, Ryan Gibson came for an overenighter and connected with a mirror of 25lb 12oz.
15/05/09, Gavin Brown had a linear of 29lb 02oz, a linear of 23lb 02oz and a mirror of 21lb.
16/05/09, Gavin B. went on to add a 19lb common and a 25lb 02 mirror to his success of the previous day. New member Dan Miles couldn't believe he'd got a new P.B. when he landed a 33ib mirror and Micky Pryor added to his tally with a 23lb 07oz common.
19/05/09, Colin Wilde turned up for a few days and was straight into a common of 25lb 09oz common.
20/05/09, Colin W. wasn't long without more fish as he added a 17lb 02oz mirror and a 30lb 02oz common.
21/05/09, Tony Whittick landed a 19lb 08oz common.
22/05/09, Still on the fish, Colin Wilde landed four commons of 32lb, 29lb 04oz, 28lb 07oz and 25lb 04oz.
23/05/09, Colin Wilde had 'the mother of all fishing sessions' when he caught 19 carp in a 24hour session. His catch saw the following carp visit the bank, commons of 21lb 08oz, 26lb 04oz, 19lb 04oz, 19lb 08oz, 18lb 09oz, 22lb, 25lb 08oz, 22lb 04oz, 22lb 12oz, 31lb 13oz, 25lb and 22lb 03oz and mirrors of 26lb 10oz, 16lb 10oz, 10lb, 24lb 08oz, 22lb 11oz, 14lb 12oz and a linear of 17lb 14oz.
24/05/09, Gary Maddison moved his swim and landed a 23lb 06oz common. Micky Pryor caught a 19lb common and MIcky's mate Dan Northfield banked commons of 25lb 13oz and 21lb 15oz. Peter Ayres chipped in with commons of 20lb and 13lb as well as a stockie of 7lb 01oz. Last and by no means least Gavin Brown produced two commons of 14lb 04oz and 19lb 12oz and two stockies of 3lb 04oz and 5lb 07oz.
28/05/09, Derek Garland was back to catching ways with a common of 25lb 04oz.
29/05/09-31/05/09, Micky Pryor had 11 carp from low doubles to three twenties. Topped by a common of 23lb 08.
09/06/09, Derek Garland produced mirror carp of 18lb 13oz, 20lb 13oz and 23lb 08oz.
11/06/09, Rob Golding did a short overnighter for a half linear two tone of 32lb 06oz. Photo should appear in the 'Gallery' ASAP.
13/06/09, Tristan Frear caught two stockie mirrors of 3lb and 5lb.
14/06/09, Jonathan Few had two commons of 14lb 04oz and 19lb 03oz. Jon's mate Dan Miles chipped in with the 'Italian' at 30lb 04oz and a small stockie of 3lb.
17/06/09, Duncan R. went one better when he caught a common of 20lb 15oz. while Tony Whittick had a similar fish of 21lb.
18/06/09, Tony W. managed another fish, this time a mirror of 16lb 12oz.
20/06/09, Jason Hayden was pleased to report he had caught a 24lb 07oz common.
23/06/09, Alan Thinnesen did well when he was able to land 5 doubles to 18lb 09oz and a 22lb 06oz common. On top of that Alan a P.B. tench of 9lb 02oz.
28/06/09, Ross Willis had an attractive looking zip linear at 20lb 07oz. This is a P.B. for Ross. Bernie Skeels reported the capture of a 26lb 08oz linear. Mark Jenkins missed out on carp but managed a 10lb tench. Colin Wild had commons of 18lb08oz and 30lb 06oz, bringing up his 5th thirty of the year, while Stuart Payne from Wisbech had a 22lb common.
29/06/09, Bernie S. produced a mirror of 15lb 04oz, while Ross W. pushed his P.B. carp up to 23lb 07oz with a good looking 'Simmo'.
03/07/09, Bruce Spencer soon got in the swing with a P.B. common of 30lb 04oz.
07/07/09, Bruce Spencer was pleased to report he had had a 26lb 08oz common and a P.B. mirror of 31lb 08oz.
11/07/09, Bruce S. was back on the bigger fish with a common of 30lb 01oz. Peter Ayres weighed in with a 22lb common, while Stuart Osgathorpe had a common of 18lb 02oz.
12/07/09, Richard Robinson landed a common of 26lb 02oz after a few fishless session
15/07/09 Bruce Spencer, continuing his marathon session, had a 25lb common
1607/09 Bruce had yet another two 25 lb commons
17/07/09 Bruce had a 17lb 12 oz mirror, Michael Mead had a 23lb 8oz common whilst Bernie Skeels had a 19lb 8oz common and a lovely fully-scaled stockie of 7lb 12 oz . but star of Friday's show was Andy Ashby. Friday brought the worst weather of the summer so far with thunderstorms and torrential downpours all day. Andy had four fish - a 17lb 8oz common a 19lb 9oz common an 18lb pike and a 21lb 6oz Wels catfish but here's the clever bit - he didn't get wet once as all were caught during the short dry spells - what obliging fish!
18/07/09 Bernie Skeels had two more commons of 17lb 12oz and 22lb 4oz and three beautifully marked stockies of 7lb 9oz, 5lb 9oz and 5lb 4oz. In a couple of years these will be absolutely stunning fish.
22/07/09 Tony Whittick had a good session with mirror carp of 21lb 13oz, 17lb 04oz and 25lb 01oz. Derek Garland had acommon of 16lb and a mirror of 10lb. Darren Marchant did well landing a fully-scaled of 25lb 02oz and a common of 10lb. Kevin Morris caught a 3lb rudd and Kris Rogers reported catching a very pleasing stockie of 8lb.
23/07/09 Derek Garland had a common of 24lb 6oz and a very pretty stockie of 7lb 14oz BUT determined not to be outdone by his dad, young SPENCER MORRIS, aged 6yrs landed his very first fish - a half pound roach. Well done Spencer and look out dad!!
24/07/09 Robert Golding did a short overnight session for a mirror of 21lb 06 oz.
28/07/09, Bruce Spencer, now into his 5th week banked his 4th 30+ carp in the shape of the well known mirror ' The Sherriff ' at 31lb 04oz, to stamp his name onto this legendry lake record performance. Ryan Gibson caught a 26lb 02oz common and an 18lb 08oz mirror, while his mate Kris Rogers banked a stunning stockie of 5lb 02oz. In addition, Darren Marchant had a 21lb 12oz common and Derek Garland had a 16lb 04oz common.
29/07/09, Bruce Spencer caught his 5th 30lber of his session as he was packing up. This time it was the 'Italian' at 32lb 03oz. and Derek Garland managed to bank a mirror of 15lb 06oz.
30/07/09, Derek G. was again into fish when he tempted a common of 26lb 04oz and a mirror of 17lb 03oz.
02/08/09, Lee Wills had two good mirrors of 23lb 06oz and 17lb 05oz and a plump stockie of 6lb.
03/08/09, Gavin Brown was pleased to report two commons of 21lb and 21lb 07oz and a mirror of 23lb 03oz. and Michael Mead got back to catching ways with a common of 14lb 10oz.
05/08/09, Gavin Brown caught a 24lb 09oz mirror and two other mirrors of 20lb 06oz and 15lb 07oz.
06/08/09, Gavin B. then went on to catch a mirror of 15lb 03oz., while Tony Whittick caught a mirror of 19lb 11oz.
08/08/09, Richard Robinson caught the 'Italian' at a weight of 31lb 04oz.
11/08/09, Tony Whittick caught a nice looking common of 23lb 02oz. and Ian Mac Tullock- Gair also had a common of 22lb 13oz.
12/08/09, Derek Garland was pleased to catch a common of 16lb 09oz and a linear of 24lb 09oz.
13/08/09, Derek G. managed a few more when he landed a common of 2lb 06oz and mirrors of 19lb 10oz and a 30lb fish which resembled the body shape of the 'Italian' but turned out to be a different fish.
15/08/09, Stuart Osgathorpe managed two stockies of 6lb 08oz and 12lb.
17/08/09, Ryan Gibson had a 17lb 15oz linear.
24/08/09, Bruce Spencer is back again producing a 23lb 10oz mirror. Bernie Skeels did a short overnighter to bank a 16lb 05oz
28/08/09, Bernie Skeels picked up two fully scaled mirrors of 22lb14oz and 15lb and Richard R. caught a common of 19lb 12oz and a mirror of 19lb.
29/08/09, Bernie S. had another fully scaled mirror of 20lb 02oz, while Stuart Osgathorpe had two commons of 20lb 07oz and 13lb.
07/09/09, Danny Northfield caught a 19lb 06oz mirror and a 14lb 07oz common and Bruce Spencer added a 19lb mirror.
09/09/09, Krys Rogers also tempted a mirror of 22lb.
10/09/09, Bernie Skeels came for a quick overnighter and went away with the memory of three excellent fish. He was pleased with a 21lb 03oz common and a 22lb mirror but the pleasure level rose considerably when he caught a common of 34lb 12oz.
11/09/09, Colin Wilde banked three fish including a common of 19lb 07oz, a mirror of 17lb and the biggest fish so far from the lake a mirror of 35lb 06oz., while Bruce S. took a lovely looking common of 28lb 06 oz.
12/09/09, Colin W. was in again with a mirror of 23lb.
15/09/09, Bernie S. had a good brace comprising a mirror of 21lb 06oz. and a 30lb 07oz. common.
17/09/09,Bruce S. added to his tally with a common of 19lb 01oz., while Robert Golding had a 21lb 06oz mirror from a short overnighter.
19/09/09 Martin Driver had two stockies of 11lb and 12lb as well as a common of 21lb 08oz.
22/09/09, Bruce Spencer, that well known camper on our lakes had a nice chunky 10lb stockie.
23/09/09, Bruce S. was very pleased to bank a 27lb 08oz common but Ian McTullock-Gair went one better by having a P.B. common of 31lb 02oz.
2/10/09 Lee Willis had a 19lb 03oz common.
3/10/09-6/10/09 Andy Ashby went looking for carp but caught 13 pike with a total weight of 176lb, the largest being 18lb 9oz.
4/10/09 Glen Cooper had a 21lb mirror and Stuart Osgathorpe had a 14lb 08 oz common.
14/10/09 Damon O'Fee was delighted to catch a 28lb mirror - an almost leather in perfect condition.
15/10/09 Damon was awoken from his slumbers at 3a.m. and landed a 20 lb common.
18/10/09 Colin Wilde had a 32lb 8oz common-the same fish he caught in June at a then weight of 30lb 12oz.
31/10/09, Colin W. had two more fish to bring his tally for the year to 40. The smaller was a linear of 17lb 10oz and the next one was another 30. This was a common of 30lb 06oz, bringing his number of 30ies from Virginia this year to 8. Well done Colin!
1/11/09 Colin Wilde had a 35lb 4oz mirror known as 'The Sheriff'. This is Colin's 9th 30lb+ carp of the year. His total so far this year is 41 carp.
However, Bruce Spencer has show everyone that he is some angler taking five different 30s in one session and 12 fish in total, with 10 fish being 22lb 08oz and above (albeit in a session two days short of five weeks). Well done Bruce and maximum respect!!!!!!!!!!!! I was glad to hear from Kev. that you got back to Leeds O.K.
2009 George's Water.
14/06/09, Kevin Morris produced a nice looking mirror of 17lb.
2009 Pat's Pool catches:
13/04/09, Dan Northfield was surprised to catch a nicely proportioned 21lb 09oz common (not bad for a one acre growing on pond). It is appealing to many anglers when you can catch from different lakes and ponds during the same session.
28/08/09, Daemon O'Fee banked two stockies of 5lb 08oz and 3lb and some tench.
2009 Pingree's Pool catches:
21/03/09, Stephen Dear has caught the first carp from this lake in 2009 in the the form of a common of 19lb 12oz.
16/05/09, Adam Tideswell was tempted by the solitude and peace and quiet of Pingrees Pool and was pleased to bank an attractive looking 21lb 05oz common.
24/05/09, Glen Cooper had commons of 16lb 05oz and 12lb 10oz as well as a mirror of 8lb 12oz. Also Glen told me he lost a much bigger fish.
13/06/09, Richard Robinson banked a very attractive 23lb 04oz common.
12/07/09, Richard R. beat his last 'Pingrees' common with a very dark fish of 23lb 10oz.
14/11/09, Dan Northfield was rewarded for hios baiting up with a pretty well scaled mirror.
15/11/09, Dan N. added a 16lb 11oz common to his tally.
I'm pleased to see some fish coming out of this pool. There is no doubt in my mind that it is well worth fishing this water.
2009 WillowWalk catches:
07/04/09, Roly Marsh came for another short day session on Willow and was well rewarded with a 32lb common.
11/04/09, Marcus Wetzl contributed to the cat fish catch stats by having a 28lb 14oz specimen.
13/04/09, Rod Pattison did two nights and almost at the end of his session he caught the 'Shubunkin' at 31lb 10oz. It is nice to see a known old warrior come out from time to time. Also, Phil Hill did a quick overnighter and brought out the fifth wels cat this year from Willow at 30lb 12oz. Well done to both Rod and Phil.
22/04/09, Darren F. is now unstoppable taking the 'Big Mirror' at 34lb 02oz followed by another 18lb mirror.
23/04/09, Darren Francis, this time with a 31lb wels catfish. (The 6th decent sized cat out of Willow Walk, so far this year.)
25/04/09, Michael Brown (snr), during a short overnighter, caught the following; 27lb common, 28lb mirror and a 22lb 04 mirror. Stuart Payne, also came for a short overnight session on Willow Walk and produced a 22lb 02oz mirror.
28/04/09, Marcus Wetzl tempted out a linear of 27lb and a common of 21lb. Adam Fletcher did a short overnighter for the 32lb common known as 'Scar', while his mate Jonathan Nicole had a 24lb 06oz linear.
29/04/09, Darren Francis made the aquaintance of a nicely proportioned 26lb common.
02/05/09, Michael Brown (Jnr.) is having a fantastic year. This time he banked a 29lb common. Graham Canham is also experiencing sack loads of success as he had commons of 25lb and 32lb. Darren Green was again into a fish in the shape of a 25lb common and Stuart Payne produced a 20lb common.
03/05/09, Darren G. came up with the goods again when he brought a 20lb common to the net. A common of 22lb was landed by Pat Cronin and a 'full house' ocurred when Stuart Payne chipped in with a 17lb 08oz common.
04/05/09, Peter Gibbs has attracted a couple of nicknames but he hasn't got time for nicknames judging by the number and size of fish he is banking. This time it was mirrors of 25lb and 28lb 04oz. Peter's mate Jason Canning also managed a 24lb 08oz mirror, while 'Pat the Cat Cronin' had a nice 14lb 08oz mirror.
05/05/09, Phil Lee was back on Willow for a short overnighter to bring out the common 'Blind Eye' at 30lb 01oz. Roly Marsh turned up fior a day session and hadn't ben there long before he had banked commons of 20lb and 14lb 10oz and a mirror of 24lb 02oz.
07/05/09, Neil Morton and unusally for him struggled throughout his three nights and finally ended up with a 19lb 'Simmo'.
08/05/09, Stuart Payne (from March) was rewarded for his eforts with a 25lb 13oz fully scaled mirror.
09/05/09, Graham Canham had one of those all action overnight sessions you can only dream about, taking four mirrors of 24lb, 22lb 08oz, 20lb and 19lb. Ian Harle was pleased with a 21lb common.
10/05/09, Ian H. kept the fish feeding and was able to land an 18lb 06oz mirror and a 20lb 04oz common.
11/05/09, Neil Morton has found the fish in a far from obliging mood of recent weeks but to his credit he has stuck with it and found a 25lb common prepared to visit the bank. Well done Neil!
12/05/09, Roly Marsh came for an overnighter and soon had a 21lb 02oz common on the bank. Marcus Wetzl came for the same length of session and emulated his mate Roly's success with a 25lb 08oz common.
13/05/09, Roly continued in his rich vein of success, banking mirrors of 16lb and 28lb while Marcus W. chipped in with a 24lb 12oz linear.
14/05/09, Darren Francis had a 29lb 02oz common.
15/05/09, Marcus Wetzl is still on a roll taking a mirror of 23lb 03oz, a fully scaled at 25lb 02oz and a leather of 22lb 08oz. Well done Marcus.
16/05/09, Ian Harle had a common of 18lb 12oz and mirrors of 19lb 08oz and 24lb 10oz.
19/05/09, Darren Francis picked up a 25lb linear.
20/05/09, Darren Francis found the fish stayed on his bait when he was able to add a 29lb common and a 27lb 12oz linear. Darren's mate Stephen Keys chipped in with a 25lb 12oz common. Roly Marsh was back again and true to form he had a fish in the shape of a long mirror of 16lb 04oz but unfortunately it had previously suffered a damaged mouth and most people know that this can be avoided by exercising more care while playing fish in open water or by not pulling fish out of snags. Roly's mate Marcus Wetzl made a contribution to the action with a 23lb 05oz linear. Neil Morton will admit he is going through a lean spell but he was nevertheless able to bank an 18lb mirror.
21/05/09, Darren Francis was pleased to make the acquaintance of the common ''Turnscale' at 31lb 08oz.
22/05/09, Marcus Wetzl had a memorable session, landing two mirrors of 34lb 08oz and 21lb 08, a common of 26lb 04oz and three doubles between 17lb and 19lb 08oz. Andy Amory thought he'd come down for a quiet overnighter until he caught 3 commons of 19lb 08oz, 20lb 08oz and the common known as 'Scar' at 34lb 05oz, in addition to a mirror of 18lb 01oz. Darren Francis finished his week's session with 5 commons of 22lb 04oz, 25lb 06oz, 26lb, 27lb 04oz and 28lb 08oz, as well as a mirror of 24lb 04oz.
25/05/09, Peter Gibbs landed a 25lb common, while his mate Justin Canning had a 14lb 02oz common and an 18lb mirror. Rod Pattison had the 'Shubunkin' mirror again. This time at 30lb 08oz. Rod also had commons of 20lb 12oz and 13lb 08oz. Phil Lee put 4 20s on the bank, comprising commons of 24lb 02oz, 24lb and 21lb and a linear of 24lb.
26/05/09, Roly Marsh had thre mirrors of 14lb, 16lb and 29lb as well as two commons of 26lb and 27lb 04oz. Not to be outdone Darren Francis produced mirrors of 20lb and 22lb and a linear of 28lb. Ian Bellows was able to catch a 30lb 02oz and a 22lb common as well as a 23lb 02oz linear and Justin Canning had 2 commons of 25lb 08oz and 19lb 02oz, plus 2 mirrors of 25lb 04oz and 20lb 06oz.
27/05/09, Ian Bellows banked a 26lb wels cat and a 25lb common, while Roly Marsh added four more mirrors of 19lb, 20lb, 21lb and 26lb. Ian Bellows mate Brett Bevan chipped in with an 18lb 02oz common.
28/05/09, Darren Francis had a common of 22lb and a mirror of 15lb, while Roly Marsh produced a 17lb 14oz mirror. Ian Bellows contributed 2 more commons of 21lb and 24lb and Michael Brown (snr) banked 2 commons of 25lb 08oz and 26lb 08oz and a mirror of 18lb 12oz.
Well done to everyone involved in this amazing run of outstanding catches that I've had the good fortune to report on recently.
06/06/09-07/06/09, Pat ''The Cat' Cronin had two cats of 26lb 08oz and 24lb.
13/06/09, Pat 'The Cat' Cronin had two more cats of 26lb and 21lb. Darren Green was fishing for carp but ended up with another big eel. This time his elongated predator was 5lb 08oz.
14/06/09, Adrian Leggett was pleased to bank an 18lb common as 'Willow Walk' is not producing much at the moment.
15/06/09, Rod Pattison managed 3 doubles between 15lb 04oz and 18lb.
16/06/09, Roly Marsh had two doubles out of 'Coot Lake' followed by a 20lb mirror from 'Willow Walk'.
17/06/09, Roly M. carried on catching by taking 2 mirrors of 15lb 08oz and a 24lber.
22/06/09, Rod Pattison turned in another good session banking an 18lb 04oz common and ''The Two Tone Common' at 26lb 02oz. Neil Morton chipped in with a 24lb linear.
24/06/09, Darren Francis had a 26lb mirror, while Roly Marsh caught a 22lb 06oz 'Simmo'.Adam Fletcher had a good session with two mirrors of 17lb and 25lb 06oz and a common of 17lb 12oz.
30/06/09, Jon Nicole had a16lb mirror from a quick overnighter.
01/07/09, Roly Marsh banked a 14lb 04oz common.
04/07/09, 'Pat The Cat Cronin' lost a battle with a cat but was rewarded with three carp of 15lb 04oz (mirror), 21lb 08oz and 22lb 08oz (linear).
07/07/09, David Everitt returned to the water after lengthy break but was straight onto the fish with a 23lb 08oz fully scaled mirror. Jon Nicole banked a common of 21lb 14oz, which gave a good account of itself.
08/07/09, Loz Everitt, fishing with his father got in on the act by banking a common of 20lb 08oz.
09/07/09, Loz did it again with a 'Simmo' type mirror of 22lb 05oz. whilst dad David had a 17lb 5oz common.
10/07/09, Ian Harle had the 'Fully Scaled Mirror' of 23lb 08oz.
11/07/09, Ian H. was on the fish again with commons of 23lb, 20lb and 18lb 02oz. Michael Brown (Jnr.) had commons of 14lb, 28lb 08oz, 24lb 08oz and 21lb 04oz and two mirrors of 16lb and 28lb 04oz.
12/07/09 Super- Rod Pattison had a bumper session with eleven fish. These were commons of 17lb, 18lb 2oz, 21lb 2oz, 24lb and 24lb 8oz and mirrors of 14lb 12oz, 19lb 12oz, 21lb 2oz, 23lb 8oz, 25lb 2oz and 27lb 4oz. Brilliant!
17/07/09 Andy Amory had a common of 18lb.
18/07/09 Andy had a bigger common of 26lb 8oz, Pat Cronin had a 27lb 8oz Wels catfish and Adrian Leggett had a 23lb 14oz linear.
22/07/09 David Everett caught a common 0f 22lb 01oz.
25/07/09, Rod Pattison had two 'Simmo' mirrors of 15lb 10oz and 17lb 08oz.
26/07/09, Rod P. added a 16lb 06oz mirror to his tally.
27/07/09, Rod P. was still firing on all cylinders when he added a 21lb 12oz common to his tally.
29/07/09, Roly Marsh was back to catching ways with a mirror known as 'Boney M' at 23lb 06oz. David Everett had a common of 21lb 08oz. during the same period.
30/07/09, Roly M. struck again with a common of 21lb, while David Everett had a mirror of 23lb 07oz. and a common of 18lb 14oz.
01/08/09, Neil Morton managed a linear of 24lb 08oz.
02/08/09, Rod Pattison had three commons of 20lb 12oz, 21lb 10oz and 27lb 12oz. , while Brett Bevan managed to tempt a 20lb 04oz leather.
09/08/09, Rod P. was back to catching ways with a common of 14lb 06oz, a mirror of 17lb 10oz and a leather of 21lb. Somersham's Stuart Payne banked a good linear of 24lb 10oz.
10/08/09, Rod P. is normally never far from fish and lived up to his nickname of 'super Rod' by banking a linear of 23lb and mirrors of 14lb 08oz and 21lb, followed by the 'Shubunkin at 28lb 06oz. Somersham's Stuart Payne added an 18lb 02oz mirror to his tally.
12/08/09, Jon Nicole connected with a 24lb common during a quick overnighter.
13/08/09, Roly Marsh found it hard but managed to avoid a blank with a mirror of 15lb 12oz. Somersham's Stuart Payne had to work hard but managed commons of 25lb 05oz and 17lb.
14/08/09, Somersham's Stuart Payne kept on the fish with a mirror of 18lb and commons of 18lb and 20lb 02oz.
16/08/09, Stuart P. was still on the fish with the common 'Baby Blind Eye' at 25lb 12oz. and a mirror of 20lb , Adam Fletcher also had a good session withcommons of 18lb 02oz and 21lb and a mirror of 21lb.
17/08/09, After a few fish getting off, David Everett managed to land a 19lb common.
20/08/09, Brett Bevan had a 23lb 12oz mirror at the end of his session while Roly Marsh managed a mirror of 23lb 03oz.
23/08/09, Richard Kirk caught a nicely shaped 8lb common but was then able to bank a 24lb 08oz mirror. 'Super Rod' Pattison struggled with the carp to begin with and even though he had been after a decent wels cat fish for years he said they were like London buses with 2 coming close together at 26lb 12oz and 30lb 08oz. Well done that man.
24/08/09, Rod P. found his touch for the carp by banking a mirror of 22lb 12oz and a common of 20lb. Brett Bevan also had a common of 21lb 12oz.
28/08/09, David Everett was extremely pleased to catch a common of 28lb and two mirrors of 22lb 07oz and 17lb 04oz. Spurred on by his dad Loz Everett banked a 17lb 01oz mirror and a 21lb common.
06/09/09, Peter Gibbs was back to catching ways with a 23lb 08oz mirror.
07/09/09, Stuart Payne from Somersham had a 15lb fully scaled, a mirror of 22lb and a 27lb 08oz common.
11/09/09, Alan Thinesen wasn't long on the water before he landed a mirror of 23lb 02oz.
12/09/09, new member Kevin Welch landed a 25lb common and a 22lb 08oz linear.
16/09/09, Roly Marsh had a 21lb mirror and Brian Tingey, freshly back on the lake after many years managed a common of 18lb 04oz.
17/09/09, Andy Armory's efforts were rewarded withmirrors of 15lb and 23lb, while Brian Tingey was back amongst the fish with a 22lb 07oz mirror.
18/09/09, Andy Armory moved up a gear with the capture of a 26lb linear and Roly Marsh chipped in with a mirror of 15lb 08oz.
19/09/09, Andy A. carried on with his winning ways with a 22lb 10oz common, while Ian Harle contributed a 21lb 08oz common.
2/09/09, Brian Tingey was at it again with a linear odf 21lb 08oz and a fully scaled of 25lb 06oz.
23/09/09, Brian T. caught again with a mirror of 23lb 09oz.
25/09/09, Darren Bray was ecstatic to land a P.B. common of 29lb 04oz.
26/09/09/, Pat Cronin caught a 19lb 04oz common but new member Andy Jennings was more than happy with a 26lb mirror.
28/09/09, Another new member, Ian Hardman had a fully scaled of 15lb, a mirror of 18lb 10oz and a mirror of 15lb 08oz.
1/10/09 Roly Marsh caught a 23lb 14oz mirror.
2/10/09 Bill Gipp had a very nice 25lb 4oz mirror
3/10/09 Pat Cronin had a 31lb 14 oz catfish.
4/10/09 Howard Beckley had two nice fish- a 21lb common and a 25lb 6oz mirror. Neil Moreton had a mirror of 16lb 8oz and Rod Pattison had a 28lb 4oz mirror.
7/10/09 Neil Moreton was into the fish again with a 24lb common and the 29lb common known as 'Scar'
8/10/09 Neil continued his success with mirrors of 15lb and 22lb and a big linear of 26lb.
9/10/09 Graham Canham caught Blindeye at a good weight for this fish 31lb 2oz
11/10/09 Peter Gibbs had a long 29lb common.
13/10/09 Neil Moreton had a 28lb 12 oz common and Roly Marsh a 17lb 12 oz linear and a 17lb Simmo mirror.
14/10/09 Roly had a 24lb 8oz linear, Jonathon Nicole had 'Shubunkin' at 31lb 8oz and Brian Tingey is really getting back into it now. He had a common of over 25lb in the early hours.
15/10/09 Brian Tingey had another common of 23lb 4oz. and Roly finished his session with another linear of 19lb 14oz
16/10/09 Ian Hardman had a 25lb 4oz common and Alan Thinneston had commons of 24lb 4oz and 20lb 4oz as well as a mirror of 28lb 6oz.
17/10/09 Brett bevan had a 16lb 12oz mirror and Kevin Welch a 21lb common.
25/10/09, Rod Pattison only had one fish but it was a good common of 29lb 06oz.
26/10/09, Peter Gibbs had a 17lb mirror.
29/10/09, Roly Marsh got back amongst the fish with mirrors of 17lb 14oz and 19lb.
1/11/09 Darren Bray had a 28lb 3oz mirror and a 19lb 07 oz common and Marcus Wetzl had a common of 14lb 8oz, a mirror of 18lb 3oz, a linear of 24lb as well as two 10lb+ bream.
15/11/09, Howard Beckley and his guest Roy caught eight single figure pike to 8lb+.
17/11/09, Brian Tingey seemed to be struggling until he banked a 22lb 14oz leather.
19/11/09 Brian had another fish , this time a mirror of 24lb 8oz.
R.I.P Turnscale.
Coot Lake:
This lake has fished well during the beginning of 2009 and many multiple catches, including high doubles and low twenties have been banked. It is nice to have a site which contains so many good lakes like Coot Lake and so much potential.
2009 Coot Lake catches:
10/04/09-11/04/09 Stuart Osgathorpe had a run of nine doubles with the best two weighing in at 17lb and 19lb 08oz followed by a pretty stockie mirror of 8lb. This feat was even more impressive than one would at first think as he reeled his rods in from 12 midnight to first light on both nights.
13/04/09, Stuart Payne did a short session on Coot for five carp to 15lb.
17/04/09, Steve Ankin came for a short day session and finished with seven doubles. The best two were commons of 16lb and 17lb 01oz.
18/04/09, James Edwards came for his second carp session of the year with his step dad Gordon Skillen and topped an all action session of more than a dozon doubles with an Italian shaped two tone mirror of 20lb 03oz. Incidentally this fish was a P.B. for James and so far this year is the lake record carp. This is brilliant for James. I'm really pleased for him.
22/04/09, Derek Garland banked two commons of 15lb 03oz and 15lb 11oz.
24/04/09, Alan Thinnesen caught 10 carp in one day, ranging up from 15lb and topped off with commons of 20lb 02oz and 22lb 02oz. This is good fishing by any standards!
25/04/09, Alan Thinnesen added another 16lb common, while his mate Shayne Briggs was rewarded with a 19lb common. Stuart Osgathorpe moved onto 'Coot' and quickly had a 20lb 04oz common on the bank along with three commons of 17lb, 13lb and 13lb and as mirror of 16lb.
02/05/09, Calvin Jones was rewarded with three well conditioned doubles up to 17lb during a short day session. His mate Julian Hines had five doubles.
07/05/09, Darren Francis moved onto 'Coot Lake' for a short day session and had two commons of 19lb and 17lb 08oz.
08/05l09, Jim Edwards caught three doubles of 10lb 02oz (mirror), 14lb 06oz (common) and a 19lb 12oz (linear). Alan Thinnesen had a 19lb common, while his mate Shayne Briggs was rewarded for his efforts with a 20 common.
09/05/09, Alan Thinnesen had another seven doubles including a 17lb 04oz common, an 18lb 03oz common and a 19lb 07oz mirror, while his mate Shayne had six more doubles, including two commons of 16lb 08oz and 18lb.
11/05/09, Jim Edwards had a good day session, taking two commons of 13lb 08oz and 18lb 12oz and three mirrors of 8lb, 13lb 12oz and 15lb.
12/05/09, Jim Edwards came for another day session and picked up 8 doubles evenly ranging in size from 13lb to 19lb 05oz.
14/05/09, Darren Francis moved onto 'Coot Lake' for some extra action, which certainly occurred for him when he caught 6 doubles to 16lb.
20/05/09, Darren F. had anther couple of doubles out of this lake but they were small by his standards, only weighing in at about 12lb. Peter Ankin was also amongst the fish with four commons to 18lb 08oz.
21/05/09, Darren Francis had 4 low doubles.
28/05/09, Darren Francis help one of his boys land a mirror of 12lb. This is a fish which was only stocked two years ago at 4lb.
13/06/09, Stuart Payne, from Somersham, banked a 10lb mirror. Martin Croxon had two good commons of 17lb 04oz and 19lb 02oz. and two bream each of 8lb+.
15/06/09, Paul Chubbock had 6 carp, which were all doubles, topped by a mirror and a common of 15lb.
24/06/09, Adrian Leggett banked 3 carp; commons of 5lb, and 15lb and a linear of 19lb.
30/06/09, Adrian Leggett had 6 commons between 10-14lb.
04/07/09, Adrian Leggett only had one fish this time but it was a good common of 19lb 04oz.
18/07/09, Gary Morton had two commons of 17lb and 16lb 5oz
22/07/09, Loz Everett was surprised to catch a 10lb 05oz koi
27/07/09, Loz E. caught a 10lb 10oz mirror and three commons of 11lb 03oz, 13lb and 14lb 13oz from a day session.
28/07/09,Loz E. fished another day session for a linear of 11lb 12oz, a mirror of 12lb 13oz and a common of 12lb 08oz.
29/07/09, Loz E. had another productive day session taking three mirrors of 9lb 09oz, 13lb 05oz and 15lb 12oz, in addition to a 13lb 05 common.
30/07/09, Loz E. stuck to his day session fishing and after 30 minutes he 'd got a common of 18lb 07oz. on the mat. He followed this up with a number of other commons weighing 10lb, 12lb 9oz, 13lb 05oz, 14lb 12oz, 14lb 15oz and 16lb 05oz.
31/07/09, Loz E. was back amongst the fish, taking mirrors of 7lb 08oz, 10lb 10oz, 12lb 12oz, 12lb 14oz, 14lb, 16lb 02oz and 18lb 12oz and commons of 9lb 08oz, 12lb 09oz, 13lb 15oz and 14lb 14oz.
03/08/09, Kevin Morris did a short surface feeding session and was rewarded with a common of 20lb 03oz.
09/08/09, Kevin M. was back amongst the fish with commons of 12lb 03oz. and 18lb 12oz.
10/08/09, Kevin M. carried on where he left off yesterday with a common of 16lb and a mirror of 18lb. Kev's mate Mick Swan quickly was onto the fish with commons of 15lb and 10lb. Loz Everett started his week's fishing with commons of 15lb and 11lb 01oz.
11/08/09, Loz E. had a really good day when he put a catch together containing a linear of 19lb 03oz and a mirror of 12lb 12oz, together with commons of 13lb 12oz, 13lb 08oz, 13lb 03oz, 12lb 12oz, 13lb 12oz, 13lb 08oz, 12lb 12oz, 12lb 02oz, 12lb 08oz, 12lb 12oz, 10lb 12oz, 13lb 05oz, 13lb 06oz, 12lb 12oz and 11lb 13oz. Kevin Morris did well catching a leather of 19lb 09oz.
12/08/09, Mick Swan was able to stay on the fish with commons of 11lb, 12lb 04oz. 13lb 08oz, 15lb 04oz and 18lb 04oz., while his fishing mate was pleased to catch a19lb 08oz. common. Loz E. was starting to feel the pace as he banked mirrors of 10lb 06oz and 16lb 05oz and commons of 13lb 05oz, 12lb, 13lb 12oz,11lb 13oz, 11lb 13oz and 10lb 11oz.
13/08/09, Kevin M. just couldn't stop catching bigger fish. After taking a leather of 18lb 06oz. he was delighted to bank a common of 22lb 02oz. Loz E. just kept a procession of carp coming to the bank with a leather of 11lb 13oz and a mirror of 13lb 09oz, followed by commons of 10lb 14oz, 13lb 15oz,12lb 04oz and a 14lb 12oz. Martin Croxon came over for a short day session and was rewarded with carp of 18lb 04oz, 17lb 01oz and 10lb.
14/08/09, Peter Atkin had a short day session to take commons of 13lb 03oz, 10lb 02oz and 9lb 13oz.
17/08/09, Martin Croxon had stockie mirrors of 10lb 02oz and 12lb 04oz.
23/08/09, Darren Francis wasn't long before he was landing a 15lb common.
30/8/09--2/9/09 Kevin Morris did a four day session and had seven fish, all commons. These weighed in at 16lb 3oz,18lb 8oz,20lb 7oz, 21lb3oz,22lb8oz,21lb2oz and 23lb1oz.
06/09/09, Adrian Leggett caught a mirror and a common of 12lb, a mirror of 14lb and a mirror of 16lb08oz.
07/09/09, newly returned member Andy Jennings was straight into mirrors of 11lb 08oz and 14lb 08oz and his guest Ian Hardman had two commons of 16lb 08oz and 17lb 12oz.
08/09/09, Ian Hardman carried on catching with a common of 15lb, a mirror of 16lb 01oz, a mirror 16lb 08oz and a common of 16lb 14oz., Steven Keys landed two commons of 14lb and 18lb 06oz.
09/09/09, Steve Keyes had another Coot Lake double out at 13lb.
12/09/09, Alan Thinesen's mate Brian caught a 20lb common and 6 other doubles.
13/9/09 Steve Ankin did a short p.m. session and had four nice fish- 19lb 5oz common,17lb 7oz mirror,11lb 1oz common and a 10lb 2oz common.
18/09/09, Gary Maddison had a 19lb 08oz mirror, a 12lb leather, a 12lb 06oz mirror and a 14lb 02oz mirror.
19/09/09, Jason Hayden caught a common of 25lb 06oz.
20/09/09 Glen Cooper had a mixed bag comprising tench of 5lb and 6lb, a 9lb bream and commons of 15lb,18lb 07oz,16lb 07oz, 15lb 04oz,9lb 08oz,11lb, 12lb, 18lb 04oz and two linears of 14lb and 19lb 6oz. He also had a ghostie of 11lb 08oz and a mirror of 11lb 06oz. Steve Ankin also did an afternoon session for four carp - 17lb 4oz common, 16lb 7oz mirror, 15lb 8oz mirror and a common of 14lb 01oz.
25/09/09, New Member Mick Swan had four commons of 16lb 08oz, 14lb 02oz, 12lb and a 10lber, along with a 7lb 08oz stockie mirror, while his mate Kevin Morris can down for a very short session to be rewarded with a 15lb mirror.
1/10/09 Steve Hicks had a good session with a 13lb 4oz linear, commons of 14lb, 19lb 6oz and 13lb 4oz and a 5lb bream.
25/10/09, Steve H. had another three good fish when he landed two commons of 13lb 12oz and 15lb 11oz and a mirror of 16lb 12oz.
15/11/09, Steve H. was back again taking three commons of 10lb 14oz, 12lb 08oz and 14lb 12oz. He also lost a good fish.
Coot Lake is really switching on, if you are able to find the right swims, introduce sufficient bait and fish it appropriately. Try big method feeders.
Earith Carp Lakes is just north of the village of Earith in Cambridgeshire (near to the A1123) and fishery prices for our annual tickets, which give you a full 12 months, are on our web site (www.earith- carp-lakes.co.uk)Other than annual tickets,there are no day tickets, just a few guest tickets but you have to be booked in beforehand as a fishing guest, by a current member phoning me. A member doing this can only book a guest in on the understanding they will be there fishing with their guest.
If anyone is interested in joining for a 12 month period you can contact me Pat Jones on 07761430034 or Ian Jones on 07759199256 or by email at earithcarplakes@btinternet.com I look forward to prospective new members contacting me. Please do not withhold your telephone number when ringing me, as I do not answer these calls, due to the odd crank call in the past. At certain times we have vacancies but you may choose to have your name on our waiting list for a place in the future. Anyway, you are only a phone call away from speaking to me and arranging to come down and meet me at the site. You can see our site has produced good fish throughout the spring and early summer of 2009. It should continue to produce good specimens throughout the rest of 2009.
All current members and those about to join need to read this:
I would like all members to appreciate that to keep a current membership running, as it comes to a close, you must renew your membership before it runs out. This means allowing a week for a cheque to clear. I'm finding a few members let their membership lapse and still think they can pay late and continue their membership (saving £50) as if it hadn't lapsed. The idea that lapsed ex members can do this will no longer be the case and any member allowing their membership to lapse will find that their ticket will be re-allocated to a new member. Also in future I will give one reminder of a membership coming to a close and then it is the responsibility of that member to ensure that they pay for their next year's ticket before their membership has run out, if they wish to rejoin and save themselves £50. On not hearing from any member I've texted I'll assume they are leaving the fishery once their membership has expired. In addition, it is no good claiming your mobile number has changed, when you haven't informed me of this number change, as like other people on the fishery I'm not clairvoyant. I'm quite happy for lapsed members to rejoin late, if there is a place for them but they have to appreciate they will have to pay the new member rate. As a result of the 'Credit Crunch', I find, as someone running a fishery, all bills have to be paid straight away, as soon as materials are delivered to the site. Also as members are aware we are spending a great deal of money on a new fishery building for the benefit of all members. All I can do is to apologise for the above paragraph but I'm sure everyone will appreciate it is important to run the finances of our business efficiently during this difficult period of world economic recession. In terms of those of you interested in joining, the economic down turn has worked in your favour in some respects, in so far, for instance, that some members are getting loads of overtime at work and feel they haven't got enough time free to justify re-joining.
However, please don't go away with the idea we have loads of tickets available. Mostly we are full, however, the situation is forever changing as memberships are continually coming up for renewal throughout the year, so don't hang about if you are after a ticket.
Extra site information:
If you are prepared to join a work party please contact Glen Cooper on mob. 07887 618 832 or Ian Jones 07759199256 or Pat Jones 07761430034. If you can help, let Glen or one of us have the date or dates which are convenient for you in 2009.
N.B.
The Willow Walk fibreglass boats, which members use for unsnagging fish are being taken for use and are not being returned to the disabled swim. I caugh four children in 2008 (non- members) launching the brown boat into the back channel. They were sent off by me, with a flea in their ear but after I'd gone they were back to play in this boat once again. Members who are not returning boats to the 'disabled swim' are IRRESPONSIBLE in my opinion, as it won't be long before a youngster is drowned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also:- Please wash your nets, weigh slings, reel spools and unhooking mats and dry them thoroughly before coming to fish at our site or any site for that matter. Furthermore, it is everyones' responsibility to pick up every piece of litter and rubbish they come across on the site, including tea bags and cigarette butts. Any litter you find should be taken home and disposed of. Obviously if no one leaves litter this will help to keep the environment of our site clean and tidy and everyone will benefit.
To view some of the latest catches please take a look on our gallery.
