25th April
I've attached a picture of a type
of carp I've never seen before, should you want to put it on your photo
page. I was wondering whether it was one of John's specialised carp?Caught
it on the Willow on the far bank and thought it was one of the nicest fish
I've seen! Weight: 6lb
Date: 24/04/2011
Thanks,
Paul
18th April
Thought I would send
you a picture of a roach I caught on the Horseshoe lake last Thursday. I
fished the lake on the same day as Paul Woods (Tuesday) and had my pole rig
destroyed by a monster that must have been a carp.
On the Thursday I came back and fished opposite the no fishing area. The
temperature had dropped appreciably from earlier and initially things were
slow. I persevered with caster / corn and eventually I was getting a lot of
skimmers, roach, tench.
Towards the end of the day when I was alone on the lake I landed the roach.
You can just make out the triangular landing net arms to give the fish some
scale. Must have been over the 2lb mark, but I had no scales!
Thanks for the day, most enjoyable.
Jon
Ackland
12th April
Attached are
pictures of the 11 lb carp I caught yesterday (11/04/2011) with a pole
on the far bank of the Horse Shoe Lake, which I thought you might like
to put on your website's photo page.A few moments later I landed
another 9 lb common carp and I lost count of how many Bream and Tench I
caught, overall it was an excellent day!
Paul Woods
7th April
I
thought I had broken the lake record Sunday with this Carp, (see picture page)
but it turn out to be 5lbs short at only 15lbs.
I caught it about 30
minutes after you left me and it took about 16 to 20 minutes to get it in the
net.
David Betts
3rd April
Walking round the lakes with
Jon this afternoon we saw a lot of movement, carp enjoying the warm weather,
rolling just waiting to be caught. The new season "Summer evening matches"
will start shortly, watch for dates on the "Match Page" We also saw the
first Kingfisher of the year darting over the lake, summer 's on the way.
I know I have quoted it before but have
you seen the "Caught by the river" web site;
www.caughtbytheriver.net
put together by members of
the bands, Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream etc on
the joys of fishing......cake making....blogs and
general articles on fishing, check it
out. Below is a quote from their site, and watch out for
their book of the same name
“In an age of blackberrys,
mobiles, and time is money, fishing is an increasingly
eccentric sport. We often sit for hours and nothing
happens. There really is no point to it. Coarse
fisherman don’t even ever eat their catch. However, if
you fish, you have the time to think again, to
appreciate and savour the moment. Fishing enables you to
take stock, gain perspective, remember great books, hum
a tune you haven’t thought of in years. It makes you
human again. Sitting with your own thoughts is good for
the soul, and you never know, a float might go under, an
alarm sound and there’ll be a flurry of activity. Then
again, maybe not. It doesn’t matter, you’ve taken time
out of the rat race. That’s the key.”
Mike A
31st July 2010
Hi, had a super day on Tuesday fishing Willow, plenty of
reasonable roach and tench topped by a pristine 7lb carp, hope to return later
in the year.
Philip
16th April 2010
Dear Sirs,
Please find attached a picture of a large Roach / Rudd [(not sure which) Jon
thinks it's a Roach] that my son Harry Sparrow caught during our session
today (15 April 2010).
I think it is about 1.5 - 2lb and it was caught on double red maggot using
waggler tactics.
The session brought us about 20lb of fish including a couple of small carp,
some small tench and numerous silvers.
All in all an enjoyable session. Many thanks,
Simon Sparrow
21st March 2010
Hi All, Just thought I would drop you a
line. On Sunday before doing the family duties I managed to sneak in a few
hours fishing and take advantage of the 1st warm day for what seems like
years. I had a feeling that the fish may well be in a feeding mood. I was
right, I lost a lump 1st put in, & then continued to land 5 carp between 2 &
4lb in the next 45 mins along with a couple of small Tench. All was going
well until Cliff dropped by. His presence seemed to put the fish off for a
30 mins or so. After a little more feed the fish turned up again and I
caught steadily even a dozen or more of the new Skimmers, for the next 2
hours or so until it was time to pack up. A great days fishing. Can't wait
to have another crack.
Cheers Jon. See you soon.
Matt
Sunday 13th February 2010
Hi Jon/Cliff
We thought you might like to see a few pics taken on Wednesday in the snow!
Considering the weather conditions, the Roach still put in a good appearance –
around 50 in all – the biggest about 1lb and a similar sized Rudd.
We will be coming again (providing lake not frozen of course) next Thursday 18th
Feb – is 7 a.m. start OK?
Tammy & Andy
Monday 18th January 2010
Just
wanted to say thank you for a great days fishing
today. I never expected to get many bites let
alone 10 lovely carp that pulled out the elastic on
My pole and gave Me that buzz I only normally get in
the warmer months. The willow is a great lake for the
pole fisherman and even on a cold January day when
the lake had only just thawed I still got some great
action.
Can't wait to come back !
Thanks again.
Garry Cullum.
Ipswich
Just wanted to say had a lovely day
fishing at your lake pulled out some nice ones a 15+
common a 9lb mirror two 8lb mirrors and a couple or
2-3lb also a lovely ghost which was about 4lb thanks
again we will be back soon
