Barford Lakes News

Day Ticket Catch Report

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 15th September 2006 09:00AM

Day ticket regular Malcolm Joyce caught these fish from the Pleasure Lake.  The Tench was caught on cat food in August 2006.  The elusive golden koi carp caught again on cat food on 11th september 2006 which weighed in at 10lb and as far as we know hadn't been caught this year..
The carp was a persnal best at 17lb 4ozs and caught at 8 metres on a pole and again on cat food.
Malcolm Joyce - 17lb Carp from the Pleasure Lake and an elusive 10lb Koi

Bream Bagger

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 15th September 2006 09:00AM

Day ticket anglers are enjoying some good sport at the moment, and its not just the carp that are putting a bend in anglers rods. Thomas Radford from Norwich fished the pleasure lake (peg 5) and had numerous skimmers and bream as well as a few carp during the day. Fishing the pole at around 6-8m out he caught on sweetcorn hookbaits loose feeding pellets constantly during the day.

Thomas Radford with a Bream

 

We're going to be on TV

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 8th September 2006 09:00AM

A couple of weeks ago Kev Green (Editor of Improve Your Coarse Fishing and presenter of Carp Crew) came along to our lakes and had some tuition from Bob Nudd on fishing up-in-the-water on a pole.  This may not sound unusual but being an out and out carp angler Kev hasn't picked up a pole for 15 years!  The session was on Willow Lake and went well - so well in fact that Discovery Real Time decided that they would want Kev to put this master class into practice on one of our matches (he hadn't fished a match for 18 years!).

After a quick call to Alec Davison of St Andrews Angling Club I had Kev guesting (along with Alan Tuck and Mike Whittiker) on their match on the Match Lake.  My remit for the day was to come along and take the mick out of Kev during the match!  Something I found I could do with ease - sorry Kev once I started I couldn't stop... I was even taking the mick when the cameras weren't rolling!!!  All of which he took very well.

The film should be quite comical - I'm told it's edited quite well and Kev's result wasn't too bad.  He held his own (improved performance once we had him holding his pole properly and feeding better) and he didn't come last!!  I'll leave the rest to the film.  Carp Crew 2 starts around 24th/25th September and we are the 2nd episode. 

Listings can be found on http://www.realtimetv.co.uk/_listings

Carp Crew 2 - Kev Green and Sarah Thomson from Barford Lakes Carp Crew 2 - Kev Green and Camera man in the thick of the action

Bob Nudd Takes Ross Fishing

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 8th September 2006 09:00AM

Back in May there was a charity match on our waters in aid of the RNLI.  One of the raffle prizes was a day's fishing with the former World Champion Bob Nudd.  The lucky winner was a delightful young man called Ross Warren who is a 9 year old budding angler and drummer! 

Ross came along with his Dad, Carl and they met Bob on our Pleasure Lake a couple of weeks ago.  Dad fished next door on peg 4 whilst Ross set out his stall on peg 5.  Bob spent the whole day sitting next to Ross giving him his wistful tuition and helping out when the bigger carp tired him out!  Ross had a brilliant day and had 2 Barbel to 2 and half pound, Crucian carp, 2 skimmers and a bream to 3lb.  He also had some clonking carp (Mirrors and Commons) with the biggest being a 12lb 10ozs Common Carp.  All fish were caught on corn, maggot, pellet or paste. 

Dad, Carl had 5 carp the biggest a 10lb 5ozs Common.  So Ross did beat his Dad on this occasion but I don't think Carl minded as you can't get a better coach than a four times world champion.

Thanks to Bob I think Ross had a most memorable day!

Bob Nudd spends a day with Ross Warren

Day Lake Catch Report

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 7th September 2006 09:00AM

Alexandra Bone has had two good sessons on Peg 2 of the Pleasure Lake taking a number of carp up to the 14lb mark. Fishing between 10-15ft from the bank Alexandra kept the fish feeding using a small handful of pellet every other cast and used corn and spam lite as hook bait.

Day Lake Catch Report

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 7th September 2006 09:00AM

This wonderful 16lb common carp was caught on the causeway on the Pleasure Lake.  It was caught by Ryan Cornwall (age 11) on catmeat and corn on the bottom.  It was a good test for his friend's new pole (Tom Radford) on which he caught it on!

Ryan Cornwall with a super 16lb Common Carp from the Pleasure Lake

 

Day Lake Catch Report

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 3rd September 2006 09:00AM

The Cronin family visited us for the first time this year.  They are from Newmarket and Rebecca Cronin (age 11) fished the training lake and had about 70 fish and really enjoyed it.  Mr Cronin is pictured with one of his quality carp he caught too.

Mr Cronin with a nice Carp Rebecca Cronin enjoyed a days fishing on the Training Lake

Day Lake Catch Report

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 2nd September 2006 09:00AM

Among other fish Mark Shubrook had this carp from peg 5 on the Pleasure Lake on corn.  His friend was fishing the recent 2 day festival and came 5th overall.  The two friends didn't do too badly over the weekend!!

Mark Schubrook