ReadingRich Posted March 10, 2015 Report Posted March 10, 2015 Hi all, Last summer I started to fish a lake on my local club ticket and had great fun catching 9lb lumps under a float with paste. By all accounts the fish go to 30lb but I'm happy with smaller doubles for the moment. I am interested if any one has any info on the lake as I hardly see any carpers on the it and the club site is pretty vague apart from a ban on nuts and boillies. Many thanks in advance. Rich Quote
newmarket Posted March 10, 2015 Report Posted March 10, 2015 Hi all, Last summer I started to fish a lake on my local club ticket and had great fun catching 9lb lumps under a float with paste. By all accounts the fish go to 30lb but I'm happy with smaller doubles for the moment. I am interested if any one has any info on the lake as I hardly see any carpers on the it and the club site is pretty vague apart from a ban on nuts and boillies. Many thanks in advance. Rich Hi Rich , i have no knowledge of the venue mate but theres a possibility you may have answered your own question .The words 9lb , by all accounts , ban on nuts & boilies .....hardly any carpers , .... Just a thought ReadingRich 1 Quote
ReadingRich Posted March 10, 2015 Author Report Posted March 10, 2015 Hi Rich , i have no knowledge of the venue mate but theres a possibility you may have answered your own question . The words 9lb , by all accounts , ban on nuts & boilies .....hardly any carpers , .... Just a thought The sound of a dream shattering ;( Quote
newmarket Posted March 10, 2015 Report Posted March 10, 2015 The sound of a dream shattering ;( Im sure somebody will be along with some positive noises Rich . Even I've heard of Tockenham Quote
ReadingRich Posted March 10, 2015 Author Report Posted March 10, 2015 It's a lovely lake very pretty and the fish are stunning all commons so far. Rich Quote
mactabilis Posted March 23, 2015 Report Posted March 23, 2015 Hi Rich, I fished Tokenham years ago and recently (2 years ago) joined again as I wanted a lake to teach someone else who was just getting into carp fishing and it is perfect for that. I only fished it at the start of last year before I moved off to where I was focusing my efforts for the year, not very successfully may I add. I was using boilies, not nuts though, but I was unaware that both baits were banned, can you let me know where on the website it states they are banned. I even let one of the baliffs try some of the boilies I was using and never got told not to use them, so I am hoping they aren't recently banned as I am predomantly a boilie fisherman. The lake does contain mainly commons, I get about 1 mirror for every 10 / 15 commons I catch. The average weight of fish I catch is normally around 12lb, with the occasional 9lb and the occasional 15lb fish. One of the bailiffs told me of the 30lb fish that was caught and where it was caught from and when, although pictures were taken and were going to be sent to me and put on the website it never did appear. It may be because there are so many small carp in the lake that the big one never comes out as they pounce on the bait but my personal opinion is that there isn't a 30lb carp in the lake. I have seen fish to 22lb on the bank with my own eyes so I would only be willing to say they go that big in there. I find that near the start of the old fishing season you get a few carp anglers on the bank because they want to get out on their syndicate lakes but they aren't open yet so go to Tokenham for weekend or two to get back into the swing of things. I may be one of them again this year..... Feel free to PM me any specific questions you may have and I will try to give you a response - as you can probably tell by ho wlong it has taken me to respond to the message I don't check this site every day - but will make an effort to do so over the next few days to see if you have PM'ed me. Thanks Lee Quote
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