Well a good season finished with a real bang with John Worker, a regular guest from Leicester, banking 82 carp during his week. Good conditions plus some good fishing saw John bank 9 nice 30’s and a stack of good 20’s with some doubles to back them up. Average weight was approx. 24lb and considering there were around 18 carp between 15 and 19lb it shows how the 20’s are coming along. Once again though the bigger carp and cats failed to show and we are expecting a few big suprises in the 2008 season.
A pleasing aspect this year is that the carp we can identify have all shown fabulous weight gains and we fully expect a few new 40’s in 2008 along with a good many extra 30’s. The higher doubles that have featured this year should all be pushing the 20lb barrier as well so there will be plenty of good fish to go for. We are in the process of netting Poplars at the moment and any 20lb+ fish that we find will be added to the main lake.
I would like to thank all our friends/anglers that spent time with us this year as it turned out to be far better than we could have hoped and we have a great many memories to carry us through the winter. One very pleasing aspect is the amount of you that will be returning in 2008 which, business aside, once again gives us plenty to look forward to. We are working hard between now and then improving the fishery with upgrading of swims, tree planting and the liming of the lake to keep us occupied. The en -suite guest room is almost completed and straight after Xmas we will be starting work on the new anglers dining room/kitchen which should be ready for our first guests at the end of March.
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