Lymm dam, lymm, Warrington area

[riks]

Hi peeps , anyone on here fish or are familiar with lymm dam ? It's a large still water near Warrington greater Manchester. I've fished it a few times and I'm a member of Bay Malton angling club which runs the syndicate . 

Cheers

Riks

[kevtaylor]

On 12/09/2026 at 11:47, riks said:

Hi peeps , anyone on here fish or are familiar with lymm dam ? It's a large still water near Warrington greater Manchester. I've fished it a few times and I'm a member of Bay Malton angling club which runs the syndicate . 

Cheers

Riks

No idea sorry, but looks a lovely setting, I guess nuisance species might be an issue with all the roach etc.  I guess hard hookbaits and/or bigger baits will help.

[riks]

8 minutes ago, kevtaylor said:

No idea sorry, but looks a lovely setting, I guess nuisance species might be an issue with all the roach etc.  I guess hard hookbaits and/or bigger baits will help.

It's teaming with fry , it has its fair share of bream as those beggars keep waking me up during the night but I figured that spombing chilli hemp was the cause of that.  I use 16mm krill boilies with a corn pop up on top with a hair rig which has been good most of the time on other waters but the carp there are hard to catch and that's why I like it other than the views . Definitely gonna go up a size in boilie next time , managed to get hold of a session pack of nash citruz cultured 20mm pop ups as I had great results with the pink citruz boilies back in the day, will try a different spomb mix too 👌

Edited 17 hours ago by riks

[kevtaylor]

2 minutes ago, riks said:

It's teaming with fry , it has its fair share of bream as those beggars keep waking me up during the night but I figured that spombing chilli hemp was the cause of that.  I use 16mm krill boilies with a corn pop up on top with a hair rig which has been good most of the time on other waters but the carp there are hard to catch and that's why I like it other than the views . Definitely gonna go up a size in boilie next time , managed to get hold of a session pack of nash citruz cultured 20mm pop ups as I had great results with the pink citruz boilies back in the day, will try a different spomb mix too 👌

Good luck fella, I'd be having a go for Perch on lures with all those fry you mention it must have some big ones. 👍

[riks]

Just now, kevtaylor said:

Good luck fella, I'd be having a go for Perch on lures with all those fry you mention it must have some big ones. 👍

You know what I've never thought of going for the perch 😕 nice one 😜 👍

[Serenity]

Uncooked prawns (greyish) at this time of year, deadly for perch - and carp

 

[riks]

24 minutes ago, Serenity said:

Uncooked prawns (greyish) at this time of year, deadly for perch - and carp

 

Funny you mention that , I have quite often given that some thought over the years . I've never tried it as never thought the prawns would stay on the hair ? Also thought of muscles too . For the prawns as they differ in size would I need to make a rig to suit the size of the prawn as in hair length? 

[Serenity]

Yes, they are fragile. This should not be  a problem when float fished near the marginal reeds where perch lurk.

For carp, mount a prawn on the hair with its tail closest to the hook. For anything other than short range, it can be cocooned in PVA to withstand casting. Prawns are outstanding until into October when the carp change their food preference.