The winds were light and variable again, the high pressure system stayed over us for yet another week, though what ever happened the lads were determined to enjoy themselves, and as ever the last week always see’s a good bunch of guys!! Luckily we didn’t have the frost of the previous two weeks, 5-8 degrees at night and 12-16 during the days for us.

The conditions ensured the fishing was slow, it did produce some quality fish the ‘’Biggun’’ On Lake 3 has finally made 70lbs plus a few 50’s as well.

I’ll start on Lake 1 Top Rod strangely enough was our very own Zen, who managed to winkle out 11 fish for the session, the best a 41lb common from the ‘West Point’ swim. Most of the carp were still held up down the arms.

Richard Timson took full advantage and set up down the ‘Gables’ end where the fish were crashing all over him, using small bags and Cell boilies Richard soon landed 2 x 30’s up to 39lb’s and a 44lb Common, not bad going for a lad just getting into his carp fishing.

Gary Caunter he moved swims nearly every day took 10 fish for his efforts on the Cell on Zen’s New Grange bait they had been using. Phil Walker ‘Sunset’ also had 4 fish up to 39lbs and a 40lb Common as well on the cell. Darren Raynes ‘all over’ took 5 fish for his efforts on the Cell and the New Grange bait. Finally Jason Caunter had 7 fish up to 39lbs on the Cell and Grange combo.

Lake 2 Joint ‘top rods’ on 2 this week with 18 fish a piece, Vinnie Martin peg 28 had an 18 fish catch taken on the Pulse & Cell boilies which inc, 2 x 40’s a common and a 43lb mirror, the other lad on 18 fish was Kurtis Pottle peg 8 with fish up to 42lbs on Nosh bait!!

Martin Lewis peg 30 had a 15 fish haul with carp up to 39lbs on Scopex/Cell. Ian Norie peg 11 only had a couple but the best however was a 49lb common also on scopex. Sadly the other lads only had a few each if that.

Lake 3 "Top Dog", "Top Rod" and this weeks "Top Bombin" awards gotta go to <<< Matt Wickens >>> who’s first fish was the venues first 70lb Common!

Matt had a total of 6 fish from peg 2 inc a 46lb common and a 52lb common as well on The Cell.

John Evans >>> peg 5 had three out up to 51lbs again on the Cell.

Dale Aldridge peg 8 had 5 fish Inc, 2 x 40’s of 43lb.8oz and 46lbs on the Cell.

Buzz Burrett >>> peg 11 took a total of 8 fish inc 2 x 40’s on The Cell & New Grange baits.

As there wasn’t anyone on Lakes 4 & 5, 3 of the youngsters on Lake 3 moved across as soon as the 70 was caught. The 2 lakes had fished quite well the previous weeks.

Lake 4
Ricky Taylor peg 8 took 6 fish up to 45lbs on the Cell.

Matt Stone >>> peg 3 had 14 fish in commons of 43lbs and 44lbs and 3 x 40lb mirrors as well inc a 44lber and 45lbs the on Nosh.

Lake 5
Father and Son combo Steve & Ryan Furness took the chance to relocate from Lake 1 to Lake 5.

Dad, Steve had 7 fish on the Cell, and young Ryan took 11 fish inc, 2 x 39lb mirrors, and 2 x 40’s of 43lbs and 45lbs on the Cell.

That’s it for this season, we are still open all winter for those who fancy it, there’s already been a few 50’s out as I write, November is a good month. I will look forward to seeing you all again in the New Year until then have a good one.

Cheers, Matt.

P.S. Sorry to disappoint the lads from Lakes 1 and 2 as we are unable to download the photos from Matts' disc. If we can retrieve the data we will upload them at a later date.

The weather could not have been worse for the lads this week. Very changeable 2 cold frosty nights didn’t help things; the sunny days gave way to rain towards the end of the week. Still managed some nice fish though, another biggie from Lake 3 again but for most the weather did its worst.

Lake 1
Paul Sandford “Snags” was “Top Rod” (only just) with 13 fish but did include 5 x 40’s up to 45lbs common, and topped of the week with a 54lb common all taken on the Cell.

Josh Sandford >>> “Slope” managed 8 fish up to 38lbs on the Cell.

Luke Howens >>> “Pads” had a 7 fish catch with fish up to 43lbs on MGM.

Derek Jennings “Sunset” also took a 7 fish catch which included 3 x 40’s on Nutz baits.

Tony Gouldsborough >>> “Chimneys” was back yet again this time Tony had a dozen fish up to 41lbs on Tiger nut boilies.

Lake 2
Jamie Spinks peg 2 took a 15 fish catch using the New Grange and Cell boilies.

Jason Andrews peg 6 had 6 on the Grange.

Ron Pascoe peg 23 had a 15 fish catch on their bait; don’t know what it was though!!!

Top Rod on 2 was Dave Simpson peg 28 who caught a 17 fish haul, no monsters but a few good thirties up to 38lbs on the Cell.

Richard Hardy pegs 9 had 29 had 11 fish on the Cell.

Pete Mann >>> peg 22 caught just 6 the best a 42lb common on Matrix.

Lake 3
Brett Ades >>> peg 2 had 7 fish up to 48lbs on the Active 8.

Paul Gadsden peg 12 had one of the biggies the big common at 69lbs – 11ozs again on the Active-8. Well done mate!!!

Colin Ades >>> peg 16 had 5 fish out including mirrors of 43lb and 45lbs again on the Active-8.

Lake 4
This weeks “Top Bombing” award goes to Russell Rafferty peg 1 with his catch of 29 fish, the best reported this week the best a brace of mirrors of 43lbs and 45lbs no bait mentioned!!

Ron Arnold >>> peg 2 had 15 fish up to 40lbs on Scopex boilies.

Ade Crocker peg 3 also caught 15 fish on the fruit and crab boilies.

Ercan Ali managed to winkle out 11 fish. Lake 4 seemed to do rather well despite the bad conditions, as did Lake 5 seems like these 2 smaller waters are somewhat immune to the cold for some reason!!

Lake 5
Kelvin Dingsdale peg 5 took a 25 fish haul including 5 x 40’s, all mirrors this time on the Cell – A-8 Combo.

Mark Sweetman peg 3, his best a 45lb mirror on the Cell.

Andy Eades >>> peg 7 had 8 fish up to 38lbs.

It’s the last week of the season proper next week and sadly the crap weather is due to continue into next week, but let’s hope for the best.

Whatever happened to those October gales we used to have just a few years ago???

Cheers lads, Matt.

Conditions not to good I’m afraid bit of a frost at nights, sunny days because of the high air pressure at the moment.

Bags and sticks doing most fish, in conjunction with chopped boilies, but despite everything we still managed to bank some large and quality fish inc. 30 x 40’s 6 x 50’s and a 60lber.

Lake 1
Tony Burns “Snags” had unlucky 13, 5 x 30’s, and a 40lb mirror and rounded that lot of with a 51lb – 8oz mirror on Plum boilies.

Danny Burns “Ladies” had 7 fish the best a 40lb common on the Cell.

Ken May >>> ‘3 Steps’ an old face from the past managed to land 10 fish for the session despite the weather. 44lb 12oz the best for Ken on The New Grange and Cell boilies.

Martin Cuthbertson >>> moved from the ‘West Point’ to ‘The Slope’ and caught 6 fish including a 44lb Mirror and a 47lb Common on The Cell and Nosh baits.

Jack Kristiansen ‘Unknown’ only caught 3 fish but at least they were all 40’s, a 43lb Common and a brace of 44lb Mirrors on The Cell.

Tony Warren ‘Beach’ had 4 fish including a 42lb Mirror and 55lb Common. When they're this big you don’t mind waiting hey?!! Tony’s fish all fell to The New Grange bait from MainLine.

Tony Warren Jnr next door in the ‘Bailiff’s Swim’ (Rookery) had an 8 fish catch, no monsters though on his ‘’Live System’’ baits???

Danny Webb ‘West Bar’ had 11 fish out, the best a whacker of 64lbs Common which also fell to The New Grange.

Next door in the ‘Hornets’ Dave Kellerhaugh >>> had a 14 fish catch inc. a 40lb Mirror and topped that off with a 57lb Common, again on that New Grange Bait.

Moving onto Lake 2 now
Andy Codd peg 19 had 10 fish on the A-8 baits.

Spencer Blake peg 15 took 8 fish up to 40lbs on The DreamLake Specials.

Steve Corbett peg 30 just a 43lb Common on The Cell – A-8 combo.

Neil Allen peg 20 had 6 out up to 44lbs on the A-8 baits.

We had 2 Dutch or Danish lads turn up as we had a couple of spare places. They’d been to some other Lake that didn’t live up to its adverts. They really enjoyed their week fishing ‘’English Style’’ as well. They were well impressed with our setup and even managed a 48lber as well on their CC Mores Bait.
Sadly not much more to report this week.

Lake 3
Glenn Brown >>> peg 8 had a dozen fish catch including 4 x 40’s a 43lb mirror a 42lb mirror and a 45lb mirror, and a common of 49lb rounded off the week. Glen used the A-8 – Cell combo.

Tony Fox >>> peg 12 had 7 fish the best a 43lb common again on the A-8 – Cell combo.

Trevor Hayford peg 10 took 9 fish on the A-8 the best a common of 51lbs.

Malcolm Evans took 4 up to 44lbs on Maple-8 from peg 5.

Lake 4
Andy Morgan peg 4 had 16 fish up to 48lbs.

James Morgan pegs 1-3 also took 16 fish no monsters just up to 30lbs on The Cell.

Tony Owen peg 8 had 11 fish on The Cell.

Lake 5
Allan Myers peg 5 took 14 fish for the week on the A-8 boilies.

Sean Little peg 8 took 8 fish on The Cell.

Steve Charters peg 4 had 11 fish out including 2 x 40’s both mirrors and a 50lb mirror on The Cell.

Scott Latter peg 1 had 12 fish out on His Cell boilies.

The lads did well despite the conditions.

It will pay to throw in some extra warm clothes at this time of year!!!!

Cheers Matty

The weather this week was overcast, slightly unsettled, wet and windy too, but with reasonable temperatures.

The fishing was slow to start, but improved as the week went on. Bags and stringers are doing well, again “clipping up” proving O.K. Better to target fish, than large beds of bait.

Lake 1
Top Rod on 1 this week was Neil Thorogood “Snags” who landed 36 fish inc. 4 x 40’s all commons, 2 x 42lber, a 43lber and a 44lber all taken on Premier baits.

Tony Gouldsborough >>> “West Bar” was back again, just for the week this time. Tony managed to land 10 fish inc. 2 x 40’s the best a 46lb common on Tigernut boilies.

Richard O’Phelan “Chimneys” had a 9 fish catch all on the Active-8.

Dexter Hawkes “Slope” had 7 out the best a 43lb – 12oz mirror. Dexter was on the Cell.

Terry Brazier >>> “Cherries” had half a dozen carp but the catch did include 2 x 40’s though on the Active-8.

Brady Wilson “Ladies Lair” had unlucky 13 out on Matrix.

Sid “Beach” wants everyone to know he caught a 53lb mirror on Thursday night. Sid was using Cell he tells me!!!

Danny Overton >>> “Haven” only had 4 but a 40lber as well on the Active-8.

Lake 2
Jason Larosa pegs 17, 19 then 10??? He gets about a bit, took 19 fish for his efforts on a blend of the Cell and Active-8 combo.

Nick Webster pegs 23-26 had a 14 fish catch with fish up to 40lbs on Nash.

Mark Crowthers peg 27, his best a 41lb common on the Maple-8.

Darren Cunningham >>> peg 7 had 5 fish inc. a 44lb common and then a 50lb-12oz mirror all caught on the Cell or Maple-8.

Lee Sutton peg 30 had an 11 fish catch, no monsters for Lee sadly, who used the Cell.

Billy Waiters peg 3 also on the Nash caught 6 fish.

Anthony Burns peg 16 took a 9 fish catch a 40lb common the best, again on the Cell.

John Knight peg 2 caught 18 fish on Nash.

Liam O’Conner >>> peg 22 took a total of 16 fish for the week which included 2 x 40’s a common, the other a mirror on the Cell.

Anthony Rankin peg 5 caught a total of 15 fish and managed to lose 14 as well. I’d have a look at your rigs mate!! Anthony got off to a flyer his 1st fish of the session was a 55lb-8oz common on Nash baits.

Danny Burns >>> peg 14 took a 10 fish haul which included 3 x 40’s all of them commons. Danny was on the Cell.

Lake 3
Top rod this week (at the time of writing) is Alex Rogerson peg 2 with 27 fish which included 6 x 40’s lucky old sod!! Don’t know the weights of these though, all taken on the Cell.

Jason Casey “Bailiffs” took a 24 fish catch on the Cell and A-8 combo.

Jay Titcombe >>> peg 7 had 9 fish out, which inc. 3 x 40’s. Commons of 43lb and 45lbs and a mirror of 44lbs on the Cell.

Duncan Raithby >>> pegs 3-4 had a 12 fish catch the best a 43lb common on the Active-8 and Scopex boilies.

Andrew Gage pegs 14 and 4 only managed 4 fish. Andy usually does really well, alas 37lbs the best he could muster this trip on A1/Scopex, (bet he won’t be using that again!!!)

Morgan Jones peg 15 did rather well, taking a 19 fish catch the best a common of 42lbs on his super duper homemade boilies which appeared to melt after 2 hours!!

Our old friend Roger Meier peg 10 had half a dozen fish which did include 2 x 40lb mirrors. The best and biggest for the week was one of 48lbs; Roger also managed to get hold of some of the much sort after “New Grange” from Mainline, which I believe will be launched in the spring.

Lake 4
Sadly the lads failed to arrive.

Lake 5
Phil Brindly peg 1 had 11 fish inc. 2 x 40’s both mirrors, the best a 48lber then added a 50lb-4oz mirror, on the Cell.

James Brindley >>> pegs 3-8 took 9 fish, the best a 41lb-8oz mirror on the Cell. Finally for this week.

Michael Lynn peg 4 took 11 fish as well the best a 44lb mirror on the Cell.

Thanks a lot for your company this week, you were indeed a great bunch of lads, and for Gods sake leave Barty alone he’s not Gay!! Not yet anyway!!!

More next week cheers Matt.

The weathers still up in the air, warm days, cold nights and no wind, results slowed, but some good sized fish caught though. A 60lber from Lake 2, 17 x 40’s & 4 x 50’s from Lakes 1, 3 – 4 & 5 were slow too, fishing for one fish at a time, rather than heavy baiting for big hits, is the way to go this week. Low pressure front moving in for next week, so things should improve then. Bailiff Barty had a right result with a so & a 68lb from Lake 3.

Lake 1 Top Rod this week with a good catch for the conditions was M. Birkin who seemed to have spent one night in a shed load of swims. The effects paid off with a catch of 27 fish for the week, topped off by 5 x 40’s, 4 x 40lb commons and a 44lb mirror as well on Nash Baits.

Mick Pennington ‘’KingFishers’’ took a catch of 17 fish and 3 x 40’s up to 44lbs on the Nash.

Rob Pratchett ‘’Haven’’ had 7 up to 37lbs again on The Cell, 8kg of it.

S Murph in ‘’West Point’’ had a haul of just 11 fish, on his 1st trip to France, fish up to 43lbs, then a brace of 50’s to finish off 53lbs and 54lbs-4ozs on the Nash.

Mark Keane ‘’Hornets’’ had 11 fish out up to 37lbs on The Cell, Mark used approx 14kg for the week.

James Millward ‘’Slope’’ had 10 fish on the old Active-8, 10kg to be exact!

Mark Barton ‘’3 Steps’’ had a 9 fish haul topped off by 2 x 40’s of 42lbs and a 47lb-10ozs, using just 10kg of squid baits.

Steve Proctor who fished ‘’Herbies Hole’’ and the ‘’Lodge.’’ Steve had 8 out up to 45lbs on The Cell, using just 15kg.

Dave Garner ‘’Ladies Lair’’ had 9 out, the best a mirror of 44lbs on The Cell.

Trev Peachment >>> ‘’Pads’’ had an 8 fish catch, a 48lb mirror, then a 53lb common rounded off the session for our Trev, who used 12kg of The Cell.

Adam Higgins ‘’Sunset’’ had a few fish, 30’s up to 38lbs, a 40lb-6oz common, and yet another 50 of 53lbs a common again, (they nearly all are!!!) Adam used just 8kg of the MainLine Active-8.

John Rockey >>> ‘’Beach’’ winkled out 11 fish for the trip, the best fish being a 41lb mirror and topped off with a lovely 47lb common. Johns bait was The Cell, around 15kg was used.

Lake 2 felt the effects of he crappy weather this week, Ian Wells catch of 18 fish was the best this week, the best just 30’s of 39lbs common & 39lbs mirror, taken on The Cell from Peg 16.

John Daines Peg 12 had an even dozen 12 the best however a nice 51lb common. John was using The Cell and Fusion Boilies.

My old mate Tommy Onslow pegs 1 & 18 normally hauls wherever he goes, but Tom only managed a 12 fish catch on the Active-8.

Martin Fishwick Peg 23 had an11 fish catch with fish up to 39 lbs on the Cell, just 5kgs.

Richard Read Peg 7 had 4 takes lost 3 of them, but managed to hang on to the best one, lucky he did cos it went 60lbs-2ozs. Richard used 2kg of Dynamites Baits.

Nicky Milner Peg 17 had a haul of 11 fish for the week, using just 5kg of Tigarnut Boilies.

Paul Anders Peg 18 used just 7kgs of The Cell to take fish up too 43lb-8ozs mirror.

Ian Grover >>> Peg 10 had them up to 42lbs on the New Grange Bait.

Oops missed one!!! Matthew Wass Peg 20-27 had the Top Catch 24 fish (not the 18 of Ians) being the best. Matts haul included 2 x40’s of 42lb-4oz and 43lbs-14ozs on Vortex, 18kgs.

Dave Jones >>> Peg 8 fished hard for his 6 fish, topped however by 2 x 40’s both nice commons. Dave used just 12kgs of The Cell.

Lake 3, slow going but did some great fish though for instance Liam Russell peg 14 had 5 fish Inc 3 x 40’s commons of 42lb-8ozs and 46lbs and a 46lb mirror as well on The Cell-Active-8 combo, 10kgs.

Keith Trueman peg 6 used his spice pop ups and 4kg of bait to take & fish up to 40lbs.

Lee Hooper Peg 4 used the same tactics, Indian Spice pop-ups on 1kg of bait to take 8 fish including 3 x 40’s up to 45lb-8ozs. Lee tells me he beat his P.B. 3 times in the first 3 hours.

Mick Buckley Peg 7 took 8 fish on The Cell, with his best a 40lb mirror.

Barty fished the week with the lads on 3. He had 14 fish, 40’s of 40lb, 42lb 2 x 44lbs and a 46lber.

At 1am he had just landed a 56lb-4oz common, doing the honours with a photo when his middle rod roared off, and would you believe it, he landed a new record, 68lb-10oz, doubtless the same fish as before that ‘’Nibbler’’ had. Barty was using the New Grange bait from MainLine.

The New Grange had been doing really well everywhere. I may well stock it for next season instead of the Activ-8, ‘’what do you lads think’’???

The New Grange and good old Cell for next year!!!

Lake 4, saw just 2 anglers last week Les Mayhew & Lynne Harding. Les caught 6 and Lynne caught 12, along with 3 cats of 42, 54 and 61lbs, all on The Cell and Active-8 combo.

On Lake 5 Luke Noakes peg 2 struggled a bit, mainly with the 100lb plus cat that he landed on his Cell boilie.

Lake 5 also saw Ricky Pye peg 1 with 10 fish including 2 x 40’s up to 42lbs mirror on The Cell.

Tony Pye peg 8 had a 42lber on The Cell.

Hopefully the wild, wet and windy weather may change things for the better next week.

There’s only a few weeks left now lads, but the Euro has gone through the roof again, so we recommend that only small bits & pieces you need you living with you, as there is nothing we can do with the French side of things. Cheers Lads.

Speak again next week
Matt.