Cook farm (oak lodge fishery) Benfleet.

[newmarket]

I dont normally like to ask these sort of questions , preferring to find out for myself but i've just come across this place on the internet .

Its quite close to me in Benfleet essex but i've never heard of it and wondered if anybody else knows anything about it ?

 

It has a pretty poor website and a few , what i would consider to be , silly rules .

No stocking information or whether night fishing is allowed although it states £15 for 12 hrs which i consider to be quite expensive so if it was days only i wouldnt be interested anyway but it looks quite nice on google earth and wondered if anyone out there has any experience of this gaff ?

Thanks in advance fellas

[bivvystreet]

is this the place aka joke lodge that was responsible for the catfish record being abolished?if so avoid like the plague and dont believe the quoted stock

[newmarket]

Maybe mate i dont know but it sounds like it cos theres a couple of photos of a large Catfish on the website but no quoted stock levels .

 

Its under new management and been renamed cook farm fishery .

Maybe to try and lose the stigma of what you mentioned .

Whats the story there Bivvy , i must have missed that one ?

[nealjt]

Do you mean the place near thetford bivvy? Called Oakwood with big cats, Google says a 14 year old lad caught a 122lb!! I'd be interested to hear the story as well

 

NM - I think the place you mentioned has a Facebook page... http://www.oaklodgefishery.co.uk of this is it there is a FB link at the bottom of the page

[newmarket]

Im hetro neal so i dont do facebook

 

It wont let me on there

[nealjt]

Ask your Mrs to have a look

[cyborx]

Im hetro neal so i dont do facebook

 

It wont let me on there

do you mind mr nm, im hetro, im married And im buff but i do facebook, its the new pink dont ya know

 

ps, it lets me on

[bivvystreet]

garlic munching cats and fish being removed on the qt ,all this was a few years ago but mud sticks.perhaps the new owners can turn it around   

[bivvystreet]

actually here is a vid from some mug who fell for the owners spiel (by the way this goon is giving carping lessons now) just watch their bayeswater vids then ask yourself what sort of moron would take lessons of these

[bivvystreet]

just to add. i am a new noddy carper who has been carping for about 7 years,but even so i'm not a deluded noddy who cos i may fluke a few kippers would think i was ever gonna be good enough to try and give carp tuition no wonder all you old carpers wonder what the hell has happened when there are goons like the salt brothers

[newmarket]

Hahahahahaha that is the biggest load of old tripe i've ever seen ffs .

A 50 & 8 x 40's ????

 

Lived in essex / east london all my life , been fishing for more than 40 years and i've NEVER heard of this place ....

 

Toot .

[bivvystreet]

get yer carping lessons only  £100 with special emphasis on fish handling/juggling/chasing and keeping the fish out that long that it may need a week in the icu unit

[bivvystreet]

sorry to take the thread off track mate but there is no way this pair of chancers have any sort of angling coaching qualifications at all.can any old tom dick or harry give carp tuition cos i wouldn't have thought so in this day and age

[newmarket]

I dunno , fudgey suggested i did it when he found out my situation bless him

 

Threads not off track at all mate its about the fishery where those chancers were .

 

There are worse affected threads than this one

[christiancarper]

A friend fished it before changed hands and had nice 22llb common, I do believe there is a video of the place near enough empty water wen doing work on YouTube

[Darrensimpkin]

Oak lodge is a waste of time mate! Best of fishing else where! If your from benfleet message me up on here! I'm in Basildon and could give you a few decent places!