Now the weather has warmed up, cats have started to put in an appearance, like “Marmite” you either luv em or hate em, most don’t mind the 100lb+ monsters on the odd occasion, we have tried on numerous trips to thin out the cats on netting parties.

Lake 3 has seen major improvement in fish size when we took out 1.5 tons of cats. This leaves a massive hole in the bio mass, which is instantly filled by carp, who now have 1.5 tons of growing to do, it seems the forties went to fifties, and the fifties went to sixties. As much as we tried on Lakes 1 and 2 to net them, the snags, bars and undulations on the bottom meant that the results were useless, all we can ask is if you lads when you catch any of the smaller cats you could put them in the keep nets provided, so we can remove them. Likewise any big cats, just give Matt or one of the bailiffs a shout they will be more than happy to put them in our tree lake, I really do appreciate your help on this one lads. Cheers.

Now I would just like to run a few simple rigs and tactics by you which have proved to be rather effective lately. Pic 1 shows 3 good set-ups using no-knot knots, the middle one is the K.D. version, the hair length ranges from 1” and half inch, the right hand rig we christened the “T-Bone” it uses two Mainline dumbbell hook baits, available on site, the K.D. set-up has the “Butterfly” boilie, that uses a bait cut in half and the two halves put on back to back, the plastic corn is used as a visual aid.