spicychickenballbag

Hi jack...take some ant powder to put around ur bivvy. Not been to dream lakes but went crete lakes last year.

Guess what? I am back!!! Well I see the owner of Weeley was im the Angling times last week for rushing around on his quad bike warning people that the EA had just turned up and that if you did not have a fishing licence, you had better pack up quick or you will get fined!! I have always had a rod licence and I think the owner of the lakes should be fined for warning people!! I must admit to trying a 48 hr session at weeley a few months back with a friend......The fist night I had a 4 lb common and a bream from the preditor lake and my mate had a 6 lb common. There must have been 10 other fishermen on the lake that weekend and nobody had a big fish out. The owner still tells you that there are over 45 carp all bigger than 15lb in the lake, oh that last weekend someone had a 31 lb catfish and a 28lb mirror out? But after talking to two blokes fishing there....They said that they where there the weekend before and they did not see any big fish come out??? I do know the lakes have suffered from many fish deaths this year and that he was shut down by the EA for a few weeks! A Big Hi to all the carp.com crew...lov ya all Keep up the good work! Spicy

I have heard from 2 different people now that the new lake at weeley has got to be drained because proper planning was not applied for Has anyone else heard this? Anyone can see when they drive past the lake it is much higher than the road. The banks are only made from clay and dirt, just wait till the summer when they dry out and then it pours down on dry clay Does anyone know if you have to have a licence to stock a lake with catfish? Spicy

Well the farmer seems to be spending some cash on a new lake!! I wonder if he is going to put any new fish into it? He will proberly net the other lakes and swap a few fish over to the new one which looks the same as the last lake he dug...feature less the same depth all the way across and no pegs to fish from? BORING Spicy

To be honest there is not to much to pick from, unless you join a club. I joint CAPS last year and will renew my membership this year, also want to join AAA this year. Rayne lodge, which is close to Braintree is OK for a day ticket water. PM me if you want to go to a CAPS water for the day I could sign you in on a guests ticket for a day for a fiver. Spicy

Well done!! I am glad someones catching from there. I know I put the place down, but I have never blanked so many times over and over again and also spoken to so many other people that have done the same. There just is not as many fish in the lake as the farmer says there is. Spicy

Silly Question, what bait was you using? Spicy.

Well I did it again, I did a 18 hour session at weeley! What is wrong with me? I did not blank in the preditor lake.....I caught a duck at 3am on a double boilie rig off the bottom right in the middle of the lake! There must have been about 100 ducks on the water first thing in the morning. I also caught a small rat in my boilie bucket the place is over run with them and I have never seen any rat poison boxes about. The grass around the lake was about a foot high and about 6 inch's high where you have your bivvy, it made finding a dropped bait needle almost impossible in the dark. I did have a very intresting chat with an old boy that was fishing there and he told me about how much time he has spent fishing the lake in the last 12 months, he is sure that there are only about 10 - 12 carp in the lake that are over 15lb. He aslo said that his friend had been asked by the farmer when he was fishing the old lake next to the road/bridge that if he caught the 30lb'er to give him a ring so he could move it to the preditor lake I thought you had to get a permit to move fish from one lake to another? My last grumble is the amount of rubbish that was everywhere, this is why there are so many rats. Even where I was fishing, there where tin cans in the water Oh and no loo roll in the toilet Spicy

I could sign you in on a day ticket that would cost ya a fiver, but only members can night fish. I cant wait to get back there Spicy

This thread is more like a personal blog now for you and me. Anyway, I went to Houchins for two nights and I caught 1 carp about 5lb 3 kittens (Baby catfish) did not weigh them and 12 large slimey bream. Yesterday morning I had a screaming run and had hooked a big cat, I played it for about 20 mins and then it managed to get into the roots of a willow tree over hanging the lake...Lost it...Gutted, this morning the bloke in the swim next to me caught a 28.5lb catfish and quess what was still in it's mouth? My hook link..It had snapped or come undone on the knot to the swivel. Nevermind. My only complaint was that there must have been a massive wasp's nest near by, there was hundreds of them and they all seemed pretty unhappy too. I got stung right on the back of my neck, I told the baliff and he was amazed at the amount of wasps flying around but did not want to do anything about it. He told me that he had flicked 2 wasps of another guys back that he was talking to as he went around the lake. I got stung from just standing still watching the water, not from franticly waving my arms about like I was having a fight with the invisable man. Spicy

Does anyone fancy fishing next week? I want to go for a two nighter, not weeley I looked around Houchings lakes(C.A.P.S) last week....I saw some fat looking carp. Spicy

It's just b'coz it's so close and there is a chance of catching a big fish, well sort of I am a member of CAPS but if I am just doing a quick over nighter it's to much hassle to travel further and then get stuck in all the traffic coming back home in the morning b'coz I have to be back in time for my wife to take the kids to school, My car has died. I only went and did another night there on the preditor lake with no fish under 15lb and caught a 10lb 2oz carp. The bloke fishing oppersite me had a 5 or 6lb'er out in the night. I also stuck a rod in the match lake and caught loads of small tench a 2lb carp and a pretty big roach, but I got bored of my bite alarm going off every 20 mins in the night just for small fish. Spicy

I could not agree more, luck plays a massive part in fishing at weeley and you would be really, really lucky if the farmer bought some new fish or spent any money on the lakes spicy

Well done it's a hard water to catch on I know that I am always putting the place down and stuff, it's just they charge so much money for a lake with no swims, features and a very small stock of fish. They really need to put alot of that cash back into stocking the lake, maybe even plant some trees around the place, sort the dirt track roads out...Ohh and did I say "buy some fish" Spicy

Oh no, if you keep fishing there your going to catch up with my PB blank record Spicy