South Cliff Farm Fishery ( A15 North of Lincoln )

South Cliff Farm Fishery ( A15 North of Lincoln )

My second visit to South Cliff farm fishery.....a week after my first trip rewarded me with 6 carp to 14Ib and 2 bream of about a pound each. I decided to fish on the nearest bank to the car park, the opposite side to the week before.

I set up two rods to fish with boilies on the bottom and one rod was used to present dog biscuits on the surface; which was very successful a week earlier.

The carp started taking biscuits from the surface straight away and the reel on my dog biscuit rod soon burst into life as the baitrunner began peeling off line at great speed. The result was the first fish of the day......a 10 Ib 8oz mirror carp.

10 Ib 8oz mirror carp taken at 9am

I re-casted the dog biscuit rod to a similar position to the first take and 10 minutes later the baitrunner burst into life yet again with another mirror carp.

11 Ib mirror carp

The next two takes on the surface rod yielded two bream, both around the 2.5 to 3 Ib mark.......and for a while the bream in the lake were messing around with the dog biscuits, but they were quite difficult to hook on the size 10 hair rig.

Add caption3 Ib Bream

Time out to take a few pictures of the venue, the latter showing the three rod set up.....

Looking south at South Cliff

 

Looking straight across to the far bank.......you can just about see my red/orange float with the dog biscuit rig.

The rod held vertically was used to present a dog biscuit directly on the surface, with a hair rig hanging down from the main line to the float. This enables you to present a floating bait with NO line on the surface around the bait......this really enhances the number of takes due to helping to increase the confidence of the fish. After a short period of mis-takes the reel screamed off again and yielded a 18 Ib common carp...

Fin perfect 18 Ib common carp

The 4th carp, smallest fish of the session, and the only one taken off the bottom on a boilie. A 6 Ib mirror carp.

I had literally just unhooked the small mirror carp when the surface rod screamed off yet again......the reward, the 5th carp, the biggest carp of the day, weighing in at 18 Ib 4oz

18 Ib 4oz, fin perfect common carp.......I was happier than I looked!!

The next few hours led to 6 more carp being taken off the surface on dog biscuit, the boilie rods had no more takes at all.
Here are the pictures of the fish......

13 Ib Mirror Carp

8 Ib Common carp

10 Ib 7oz common

8 Ib 12oz common

12 Ib 4oz Mirror

13 Ib tiger striped, fin perfect mirror carp

A fantastic days fishing......11 carp to 18 Ib 4oz and 2 nice bream.

Eight of the eleven carp were doubles, with two of them being 18 Ib.........I will be definitely hunting for a twenty pound fish on the surface in future weeks, and it will be interesting to see how this lake fishes during the winter, when the carp get their heads down.

South Cliff Farm Fishery ( A15 Lincoln )

South Cliff Farm Fishery ( A15 Lincoln )

My first time fishing at South Cliff Farm fishery on the A15 just North of Lincoln. I had walked round this venue the day before and seen a few carp taking bait off the surface and on the drop, so I decided to go back the next day and target the carp with surface baits......dog biscuits.

I arrived at 8am and quickly set up a carp rod to present a dog biscuit about 20 metres from the bank. Once I had got the carp taking a few loose offerings, they started to become much more bold and I got a few mis-takes. After leaving the bait out there for a while I had my first proper take which resulted in the 14 Ib Mirror carp below.....

14 Ib Mirror Carp

More fish soon followed and I managed to take a total of 6 carp and 2 Bream. The carp were......14 Ib, 7Ib 12oz, 12Ib 12oz, 9Ib, 8Ib and then another double of 12Ib 2oz. The bream were both about 1.5Ib.

12 Ib 12oz Common Carp

9 Ib Common Carp

12 Ib 2oz Common Carp

12 Ib 2oz Common Carp

I might have to try coming back here next week and try fishing boilies on the bottom as well as biscuits on the surface.......apparently the carp go up to around 27 Ib in here !!!

Langsdale Lakes ( Willow lake ) at Langworth

Langsdale Lakes ( Willow lake ) at Langworth

So it's nearing the end of September and I decided to have a few hours back on Willow lake, one of the lakes at Langdale lakes near Langworth. My friend and work colleague Megan popped to visit me.....apparently she has fished before.....I fished close in against some lily pads using a waggler, 6Ib line fished straight through to a size 16 hook. Bait : Sweetcorn and maggot.

I caught a number of very small carp; the pics below show the three biggest fish of the day....even though they are still small !!

The first fish of the day....Megan holding still a 3.5Ib Mirror Carp

Just unhooked the 3.5Ib Mirror carp

3.5Ib Mirror Carp

Megan demonstrates her fishing skills......NOT

Second fish of the day.....1.5Ib Tench

1.5Ib Tench

2.5Lb Mirror carp to finish the session

Blue Lagoon ( L&DAA Water )

Blue Lagoon ( L&DAA Water )

I decided to have a few hours down at the Blue Lagoon. As you can see from the pictures that I took the surface weed was still a massive problem and many anglers have been avoiding this small lake for this reason alone. ( Even though there is some nice fishing to be had if you can find the fish, as it can be hard to fish on certain days )

The surface weed covering the majority of the lake

The view to my right, showing the odd patch of open water that is still fishable.

My swim.....pole fishing 11 metres out next to the big lily pads

My swim.....one of the only open spots of water available to fish on the lake

A nice pair of tench.....3Ib and 2Ib, plus a few roach, perch and rudd

The best fish of the session, a 3Ib Tench

Blue Lagoon ( L&DAA Water )

Blue Lagoon ( L&DAA Water )

I managed to get a few hours after work to pop down to the Blue Lagoon on the quest of finding the tench their. I fished on the pole at 11 metres next to a Lily pad in Peg 2. Using sweetcorn and maggot on a size 16 hook, I managed to tempt this 5 Ib tench, my best tench of the season so far.

5Ib Tench

5Ib Tench

Best Tench of the season as far

Just before release, the fin perfect 5Ib Tench

Blue Lagoon ( L&DAA Water )

Blue Lagoon ( L&DAA Water )

A two hour session after work at the Blue Lagoon produced two small tench using double maggot. I also lost a couple of bigger tench......thats the danger of pole fishing at the very edge of a big lily pad!!

3Ib tench

A nice brace of tench....3Ib and 1.5Ib

Blue Lagoon ( L&DAA Water )

Blue Lagoon ( L&DAA Water )

I got home from work at 3pm and thought, I know, lets have a couple of hours pole fishing at the Blue Lagoon. So I quickly got my tackle in the back of the car and set off. Since it's a 3 minute drive down the road, I was fishing in no time.

Double red maggot on a size 18 hook accounted for two nice Bream.....3Ib and 2.5Ib, plus a few small perch and rudd

3Ib Bream

Brace of Bream.....3Ib and 2.5Ib