Bristar68

Well, it took me a few weeks to get down there but I have to say we had a great 24 hours at Dog Lane Fishery, my son landed a cracking 15lb gold bar common within 20 minutes of having his rods in the drink. I found the first 12 hours tough going but got going in the afternoon with 3 fish in total, starting with a lovely 18lb common, followed quickly with a PB 23lb 10oz mirror from the margins, and finished with a cracking looking ghosty at 16lb odd.. Lovely place with huge roomy swims, friendly people round the banks, can't wait to get back down there and try for a few more. Cheers for the tip off's Bri & son

Hey Newmarket, I'll look forward to recieving some pointers from him then, deffo gonna give the place a whirl... 24 hours I reckon to start with.... Cheers Bri

Hey Cyborx, Thanks for that, certainly interested in Doglane looks decent, already fished Bishops Bowl once last year, my pal had 3 fish towards the end of the day all 20lb plus, found it tough going myself as the water seemed mega deep. Plus when we arrived we got told we couldn;t fish the lake we wanted to as all pegs were taken (Mitre Pool) so we went arounbd the complex to look at the other lakes and I have to be honest I was caked in mud by the time we'd had a look around and was not happy taking the drive around the very rough tracks to the other lakes. Bit of a messy place if i'm honest. Mitre Pool is cracking though which was the oriignal water we wanted to fish and in the end after wasting 60 mins walking around we found two pegs that were free so we fished it anyway lol. Lovely fish my pal had though. My lad caught a cracking tench too. I'll give the Doglane venue a go though and report back as to how we get on, cheers for the tips mate. Regards Brian

Hi guys, Got back into Carp fishing last year after a 15 year break, usual story had kids and the missus and having a busy life stopped me fishing, now however I have a 14 year old son who is keen keen keen. Took him out and about to a few local and not so local waters, mainly day ticket venue's last year and he really enjoyed it. We had some lilited success, annoyingly he beat me last year with his PB being 18lb mirror and mine being a 15lb common... I have now managed to accumilate all the required elements for us to go off and fish overnight, new bivvy, couple of bedchairs etc etc.. I can't quite afford to join the two main known syndicate waters around here as they want £300 plus to join and I need somewhere that is friendly to the idea of my lad fishing with me too. Essentially i'm either looking for a water with night fishing that's not over fished, or preferebly a members lake that's not ridiculously priced, not after massive fish just somewhere with a decent chance of a 20lber would do us fine for now whilst we build up our confidence and experience. Happy to travel a reasonable distance from m42 J2, obviously that gives me easy access to m5, m6, m40 ,m42 so anywhere with say 40-50 miles is ok with me. Sorry it's a bit of a rambling thread but i'm quite new to forums... Any help would be gratefully recieved... Cheers Bri