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Just thought I would pop down to the lake for a quick session as no one have taken me up on my offer for exclusive use for a week for upto 4 anglers for only £600 in June or July 2010. Anyway what a session 3 hours fishing 2 fish lost 2x 30lb plus and a 40lb plus all the fish were in swim 1, 3ft from the rod tip on our squid scopex and red robin boilies with a handful of Carpquarry pellet. 1 x 31lb 1 x 34lb 1 x 41lb Have done a bit of a video but like a true professional batteries run out so hope we have got a bit of all the fish, the video will be on the website later today..

Top pic the brace Ivan 37lb7oz and John 25lb2oz Mid pic Ivan 28lb4oz Bottom pic Rob 40lb13oz

We had Ivan,Rob,Simon & John from Surrey and Kent for a short mid week break and what a time they had 78 hours fishing, 3 new PBs, 19 takes and 10 fish landed all the runs came on our squid, scopex and red robin boilies capped with a piece of plastic corn except Simons which was on Solar club mix and all on a small bed of Carpquarry pellet.Detail of the fish and times are - Swim 1 - Ivan Swim 2 - John Swim 4 - Simon Swim 5 - Rob Tuesday 25th Ivan 13:20 28lb 4oz Ivan 18:35 37lb 7oz New PB John 18:40 25lb 2oz Ivan 21:00 24lb 12oz Wednesday 26th Ivan 04:00 27lb 8oz John 06:15 24lb 11oz John 11:40 28lb 12oz New PB Thursday 27th No fish landed Friday 28th Rob 06:30 31lb 9oz Rob 06:45 40lb 13oz New PB Simon 11:00 26lb Well done guys thats a good 78 hours fishing and who know when you return you might land that monster of the deep Rob that tried to pull you in and straightened your size 4 hook.

Lets hope they can keep it up 7 fish in the first 24hours smallest 24lb110z

This week we have Ivans Group of 4 doing a short week,What a start for them 3 hours fishing, 3 fish landed from 25lb8oz to 37lb7oz, 2 new PBs and a couple lost, the fish have the munchies they could be on for a great week at this rate.

Catch report 15thMay-21st May 2010 This week we only had two guys fishing Gary and Sean from London, Again it wasnt the easiest weeks fishing but saying that the guys caught fish from the smallest 25lb8oz to early 30s,again none of the larger carp over 35lb were caught they seem to be more interested in eating the millions of tadpoles that are present at the moment.Well done to Gary and Sean who both had fish over 30lb and I hope you had a good 50th Gary and we look forward to seeing you again at Carpquarry. All fish and lost fish was on there own bait T1 boilies and all runs came from the far side. www.carpquarry.co.uk

A few pics from a recent trip by Tony,Steve & Nick to Carpquarry Just love that wildie www.carpquarry.co.uk

Carpquarry catch report w/c 1st May 2010 This week saw the return of Tony,Steve and Nick for there second visit after falling in love with the place back in the Autumn last year.This week was much colder than the last few weeks so no suntans this week. The change in the weather seemed to stop the bigger fish putting in an appearance but they still done quite well with the smallest king carp at 25lb8oz and the largest at only 32lb8oz. Well done to Steve with his lake record wild carp at 12lb.All the fish were caught from the far side tight to trees/cliff face on pop up foam on a chod rig or squid scopex & red robin boilies topped with a yellow pop up plastic corn or foam to form a snowman type bait. Nick swim 1 Mirror 28 lb, Mirror 31 lb8oz and 2 lost/missed fish. Tony swim 3 Mirrors at 25lb8oz,27lb,27lb,27lb8oz,28lb8oz and a wildie at 8lb, 4 lost/missed fish. Steve swim 5 Mirrors at 27lb,29lb and 32lb8oz Wildies at 8lb and a lake record wildie of 12lb. 3 lost/missed fish Pics will be on the website soon www.carpquarry.co.uk

10/4/10 – 17/4/10 We have had our first guest over from Cornwall Sid and his wife Lesley and there friends Ron and Viv. This was not a hardcore fishing holiday, It was a holiday with the ladies with some fishing aswell. Sid and Ron both done well smashing there PBs and also a French friends son who popped over for day for a BBQ beside the lake also done well catching the biggest fish within an hour of being there. Carp were caught from the smallest at 25lb up to 35lb8oz all the fish and missed runs were from tight to the far side cliff face from swims 2 to 4 using a baitboat with a couple of handfuls of Carpquarry pellet with a few freebe boilies and the same type on the rig. All the runs were on the Carpquarry Scopex,squid and red robin boilies. Well done on your new PBs and we look forward to seeing you again soon. Sid 32lb8oz Ron 25lb Nicholas 35lb8oz We still have plenty of availability left for 2010 holidays www.carpquarry.co.uk

Well here we are looking forward to the 2010 season, 2009 was a busy time at Carpquarry, The lake itself was very little fished mainly because we were still finishing off works to it and the house, we had a few groups over mainly friends and overall they did quite well with the average fish at just over 32.5lb and the largest caught at 44lb. The fish are putting on weight at an incredible rate this is mainly due to the feeding programme, perfect water quality together with no real angling pressure this is why we are expecting our first 50lb plus fish to be landed in 2010 and the first person to do it I will buy them a bottle of bubbly. With this in mind there is still plenty of dates to have your holiday with us. Once our first guests come I will keep you up to date with latest catches,pictures,locations,baits etc. Hope you all have a great season. Regards Gordon Carpquarry.

Never seem to hear about anyone using freeline any more, Am I the only person who uses freeline with a cube of meat or bread. I still think it is a very overlooked way of fishing close in and around the margins. It catches me a lot of fish. Why dont more people try it on one of there rods when fishing they may be suprized just how good it is, a cube of meat on a size 8 hook on a bed of soaked mushed up bread.

Dan popped over for a long weekend with his girlfriend Charlotte. To be fair after just having the first frosts of the year the fishing was hard going, I know Dan said the fish were topping and jumping like mad but they were having none of it, well Dans bait anyway.The weekend quickly passed and still no joy, Dan was starting to pack up think he had blanked when his bobbing shot up and his alarm was screeming at him.He hit it and hooked into a big fish from the far side of swim 1 on chilly tuna boilie after a good fight the fish was in the net and on the unhooking mat it was a very large mirror that was all shoulders a bit like Frank Bruno and it weighed in at 44lb breaking Dans PB by 10lb. Well done Dan I hope it was worth the wait, it just show you dont give up till the fat lady sings because you never know she may be just about to take your bait. Its a great pic but dosnt show the real size of this one.

10/10/09-17/10/09 Tony Nick & Steve arrived from Plymouth and Bournmouth after drawing straws on the boat Tony had the pick of swims and went for swim 1 the rock, this was a good choice as within 3 hours of being here he landed a 37lb8oz mirror beating his PB by 6lb this was caught on boilie in 12ft of water only 3ft from his rodpod, Nick replied in swim 5 with a 32lb mirror breaking his PB by 2lb. After all the excitment at the start the lake went quite for a couple of days the carp now know there are anglers after them.After a little bit of advise Tony was in again in swim 1 at 2am with the first frost of the year and he was rewarded with a little mirror of 25lb after lossing a few he landed another mirror at 30lb. In the early hours Tony was out in the frost landing another mirror at 29lb Nick was also up playing a good fish but only to loss it at the net.Later that morning just to let the boys know the start of the fishing wasnt luck Tony landed another long original mirror at again 37lb8oz. Nick wasnt having any of that and was into a nice carp that came in at 31lb8oz from the far cliff face on pineapple boilie followed by another at 29lb8oz. At last Steve rod was of and he landed a cracking mirror at 34lb from crab boilie,Plenty of fish were missed/lost but it wasnt bad with the first frost etc. Well done guys. Nick 29lb8oz,31lb8oz and 32lb PB. Steve 34lb. Tony 25lb,29lb,30lb,37lb8oz,and 37lb8oz PB Ave fish from the trip just over 32lb.[/img] Tony 29lb8oz Nick 32lb Tony with one of his 37lb8oz mirrors Tony with his other 37lb8oz