muftyboy Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Evening all ,has anybody any experience of Chipstead lake?. It's in Kent near Sevenoaks. Had a look on the website but my phone doesn't have Flash player so can't look properly. Cheers guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalthegooner Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 (edited) Chipstead Lake, also known as Longford Big Lake, is an Holmesdale Angling Club water. It's 74 acres and has depths between 3 feet and 40 feet. It's by no means an easy water, but there are carp in there up to mid thirty and there are rumours of bigger and even unbanked fish. It's more a mixed coarse fishery over a pure carp fishery and there are (As far as I have heard ) massive shoals of bream (As well as roach, tench, eels etc.) in there which could plague you; but if you get through them the rewards are there. I had a walk around there a couple of years ago with a view to joining and found all of the swims to be cut into a crowded (With foliage) bank with nowhere to fit a bivvy. If you want to do only days there then you'll be fine, but for session fishing it's not up to scratch, in my opinion. The water is also used by the Chipstead sailing club for various water sports. Edited October 27, 2015 by dalthegooner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muftyboy Posted October 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 Chipstead Lake, also known as Longford Big Lake, is an Holmesdale Angling Club water. It's 74 acres and has depths between 3 feet and 40 feet. It's by no means an easy water, but there are carp in there up to mid thirty and there are rumours of bigger and even unbanked fish. It's more a mixed coarse fishery over a pure carp fishery and there are (As far as I have heard ) massive shoals of bream (As well as roach, tench, eels etc.) in there which could plague you; but if you get through them the rewards are there. I had a walk around there a couple of years ago with a view to joining and found all of the swims to be cut into a crowded (With foliage) bank with nowhere to fit a bivvy. If you want to do only days there then you'll be fine, but for session fishing it's not up to scratch, in my opinion. The water is also used by the Chipstead sailing club for various water sports. Cheers dal, since I posted this I have done a bit of digging on Google, apparently less than 200 carp in there , so not really what I'm looking for , just won't have the time to put in. Been looking at the lark field complex on the medway valley syndicate now,also have a few other lakes worth thinking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul_S Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 It's actually a bit deeper than 40ft, the main body of the water is 75-80 ft and drops away from the margins so is a very hard water to crack. Not for the faint hearted at all.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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