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| Asheldam 04/10/05 |
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Went down
to Asheldam on 04/10/05 at first light to find
the water bubbling with fish jumping all around the lilies,
caught this common weighting in at 11lb 14oz and in
good condition on polony, about an hour after returning the
fish the lake went quite and i didn't bank any more fish,
but still a good day. |
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Caught
at armigers 23 lbs mirror carp top lake on sinking bread |
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Armigers 1/8/05
Fished
Armigers on Monday 1/8/05 from 1330hrs until 1845hrs.What a
session, 35
fish caught , all carp with the biggest being a 24lb 1oz mirror
witnessed by Peter Wilson(Unknown to me until a cry for help
to land the fish), caught on floated crust soaked in pilchard
oil, 12lb line on size 10 barbless hook. A
magnificent fish which was followed by a 18lb 4oz common and
8 further fish over 10lb. Overcast
sunny day from a swim that will only be known to who was there
,but more importantly I also lost an even bigger carp which
came off the hook after a 10 minute fight. Excellent
work by the baliff who has made the fishery a joy to visit.
Keith
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am writing to tell you what a great fishery Armigers is
and what a fantastic job the bailiff has done on the
path from the car park to the lakes. On Sunday I attended
a work party with my mate Vic mainly swim maintenance in
the afternoon we fished the second lake and caught carp from
3lb to 6lb all day including a tench of 4lb that Vic had surface
fishing with crust of all things yes a Tench competing with the
carp on the surface. The following Sunday I visited the venue
again fishing on the first lake this time with my son James
and friend Ken Ewin most of my day was spent teaching my
son how to fish and he had about six carp all from 3lb to 6lb
on float tackle and thoroughly enjoyed himself. My mate
Ken took his new carp gear to gain some experience using it and
this is how his day went. First he started out using hair-rigged
14mm Halibut pellets and small pva mesh bags filled with various
sized pellets which he caught 4 Carp on. After he changed
over to Mainline Pineapple & Banana Response Boilies using
a single boilie on the hair and catapulting about half a dozen
around the hookbait. He then caught 6 more Carp on
the boilies including the 12lb 8oz and the 16lb 1oz all the other
fish he caught that day weighed between around 2lb-8lb 8oz. |
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| Aasheldham |
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Hi,
I thought I would drop you a line on my catch. I am a new member
to the club,and I went for a 15hour session at Aasheldham fishery.
I was well pleased with my catch, I had 6 common carp in all,
from 9lb 10oz to 14lb 2oz. Two fell to strawberry boilies, the
other four fell to rubber sweet corn, fishing to the pads. A
very nice fishery and I will be there again very soon |
| Danny
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| Barleylands
Farm Reservoir |
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14 lb 4 oz |
12lb 8oz |
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Alison's 17lb p.b. |
13lb 4oz |
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| 4lb Bream |
15lb 6 oz |
Damo 19lb 8oz |
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name is Mark Lewis and i'm sending you my photos of some of our
fish that we have caught this season. Crays hill ; myself ,my
wife alison and my sons marc and damion all fish here quite often
as our main venue between us we have caught over 60 carp from
7lb to 20lb.And are happy with the condition of the fish.We have
also caught Bream, some eels and hundreds of roach upto 1lb Both
my sons caught new PB at Crays Hill Bicknacre ; Myself alison
and my sons fished for a weekend in september; My son marc caught
5 carp from 7lb to 13lb he also lost 6 fish I caught 17 carp
from 4lb to a beautiful scaled mirror of 26lb 4oz i also lost
11 carp Alison fished for carp for the 1st time catching 3 carp
of 7lb,13lb and a PB of 17lb she also lost several others my
son Damion also caught a mixture of over 150 roach to 1lb and
perch to 7oz All the carp were caught on home made boilies
with particle and halibut pellets for groundbait |
| Mark Lewis |
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fished barleylands for the day and i caught this 19lb mirror
carp. I was very lucky to catch it as my dad had been there for
3 days and didn't catch a thing. |
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Fished
Barleylands with my brother and dad for the bank holiday weekend, I
was the only one to catch and that was an 18lb mirror carp.
Andrew
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These fish were caught on a 2 day session (2nd
June - 4th June) on the road bank. I myself had 3 Carp, and my
two sons had one each.
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Hi,mark lewis here just
sending in some more photo's of the beautiful carp we caught this
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Fished using light float tactics with sweetcorn and got a
bite a cast with small and medium sized roach. My Dad fishing
on the next swim with same tactics took a double figure carp that
took a good ten minutes to get in after a tour of the bay! Rises everywhere and some carp cruising on the surface. Tried
floater tactics but the birds ate all the loose offerings before
the carp did!
Carl Beech |
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| Dyers Hall 30/08/04 |
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A fish caught on the new lake between Chipping Ongar and Chelmsford by a new member Mr A. Horsnell on his second visit to a Club water. It weighed just under 19 lbs and was caught on ledgered luncheon meat on a size 4 carp
hook on 10 lbs line. It was caught just after mid day on 30/08/04 and
witnessed by another Club member |
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| Dyers Hall 3/7/05 |
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Visited Dyers Hall on Sunday afternoon
(3/7/05) with my dad. We were the only ones on the lake. Weed
was a bit of a problem but I was please to catch this 8lb 6oz
tench on a hair rigged strawberry boilie. If you intend to visit
it might pay you to take a weed rake if the club rules allow
it.
David Bates |
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| Dyers Hall 11 June |
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Fished
Dyers Hall on the 11 June with my friend Vic and son James before
we left Vic had a 8Lb.4 Tench the bait two red maggots using
float tactics just to show the quality of fish in the lake
that has thrived with the help of the weed through the years
David Oliva |
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| Little Easton's bottom
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New
member Mrs Horsnell on the 3rd time she had ever fished at Little
Easton's bottom lake by the roadside. It weighed exactly 20 lbs,
was caught at 10.45 on luncheon meat on 30/08/04. |
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| Laundry Lake 27/6/05 |
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Had
a good day at Laundry Lake 27/6/05. A very hot day with plenty
of fish showing but not many showing interest. Fished with
my dad his friend and my brother. Didn't catch very many but
topped the day off with this 12lb common on a 4lb hook length,
which was my first surface caught carp.
Graham
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| Lunadry Lake |
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I
would like to submit the following catch report, and photo, from
a recent first visit to the Lunadry Lake. The day started off
bad with not being able to catch the surfacing carp around
the lily pads at the car park end. This went on for about three
hours. Very frustrating! I then looked for a swim to set up
my carp rods/buzzers, but was undecisive. Almost to the point
of packing up and going elsewhere. However, I
stayed and set up near to the car |
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boilies, and PVA filled with pellets. Well, what followed was without
doubt my best days fishing ever. I caught 10 carp, ranging from
10lb - 14lb, but the best was this lovely 21lb mirror. This is
now my new P.B. All in, my guess was around 150lb of carp caught
in 12 hours! Shame it wasn't a match really. I'll be going
back there no doubt, and soon.
Darren Harper |
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Passingford
Bridge
Sunday 11 Decembe
Visited
Passingford Bridge on Sunday 11 December. Saw only one other
hardy soul (through the fog) on the stretch. The standard
breadflake and crumb approach yielded 3 nice chub from 3
swims on a 40 yard stretch near where the stream enters the
river, weighing between 3lbs 6oz and 3lbs 3oz. All of the
fish were in excellent condition and very ready to feed despite
the very cold conditions. I tried 3 other swims on the way
back with bread and worm but without success.Fishing was
quite difficult due to the poor condition of the river for
this time of year. It is very low, almost static in places,
and there is a good deal of weed growth still on the bottom
and plenty of duckweed still on the top, however there are
plenty of places to fish. I was fishing at around half depth
to avoid the rubbish and getting frustrated by the amount
of time it took to get a bait through the swim to the "taking
point". This stretch will inevitably improve with more
rain.
Colin
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| Passingford Bridge |
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Thought
I would give another report on the stretch of Passingford
Bridge that we visited again. Still choked up with Soapwort
but getting better. Although our visit was nearly a blank
due probably to our friendly new acquaintances (see above).
My Harold E'll resident son said "I'm not fishing here
Dad" ,but soon warmed to the cattle .By the end of |
the afternoon he decided he wanted
to be a farmer. Although I didn't tell James you would have these
animals killed ! Hoping to have another go at the River this
Sunday (2nd Oct) as Andy the fishery officer phoned to say he
would be at the bank .Who says's that Angling isn't a social
scene!
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| River Roding |
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I
just thought I should send you this photo of a lovely perch
I took.it weighed about two and a half pounds and fell to a
worm.I also saw few more of about the same size but that was
the biggest I had.
Barrie Clayton |
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| River Roding |
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Andy
Banham on the first day at Mitchells Farm, River Roding with
a 2 lbs 2 oz perch caught on worm and caster. |
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appreciation than a catch report to whoever was responsible
for acquiring the large new stretch of water frontage from
Shonks Road to Passingford bridge. Perhaps we can be successful
in getting the Mill side of the Roding next. Last Sunday
the day before August Bank Holiday we (James and myself)
made our way locally to the bridge crossing at the A113.
Initially dismayed at the mass of Soapwort weed choking the
River. I found after a struggling stroll suffering sciatica
a 50 metre stretch unaffected. Perhaps someone on the opening
day (Sat 27th) cleared this .Thanks for that! Although they
were not club members because we found some discarded line
and tea bags left on swim. I left James on the swim whilst
I humped the rest of the gear from the Transit Truck (yes
the old one with the blue cab). In the meantime James had
made friends with the smallest Pike i have ever seen -more
like an overgrown Stickleback. Fascinating creature! Another
slightly larger(7") later appeared. It seems they are
amazingly tame but would not take offered maggots as a gift.
This obviously will be "the" place to Pike fish
later in the year, because a huge one did a Moby Dick impression
later on in the afternoon. We didn't have so much as a bite
after the usual feeding of swim, until I tried a largish
worm. Then after a fashion a 1lb perch was landed. After
that it was dead until the flies came out at dusk when the
roach went hunting. Experimenting with bait again I tried
a lump of cheese with the thought of these large Tench or
Carp publicised. Well we both had takes on either bread or
cheese ,with me being successful in hooking something BIG,
only for the hook end to let go . It was one of those occasions
with both arms aching holding the pole. This is my type of
Fishing- like the natural wild side without all these namby-
pamby platforms and featureless waters. It was rather like
Dyers Hall but River style before all the weed went. Hard
going when you get a big one on, but the fish like the weed
,and the cormorants don't. We / I have yet to visit the Mitchells
farm section or Shonks Mill Road ,but this is great and can
only get better when the Soapwort goes away. There will be
plenty of room for everyone to find a swim then and the M.25
floodlights are handy after dark to see the way back across
the cow field. I was confused about the parking though and
surprised that we were the only ones on bank on the day.
Is the parking the road/layby where the posh houses are ,or
the two small laybys on the A113. If it is the latter I would
be concerned about security leaving a vehicle out of sight
for long periods. Also take care crossing the road. It's
amazing what speed vehicles are doing on that stretch of
road. Lastly on another matter I noticed the complaint regarding
the "surface fishing" at Little Easton Rectory.
On our only visit to Rectory this year I could see lots of
effort had been made work wise. It was sad to have to remove
litter from the waters edge and banks. Then it came to me
that it was strange that there were only two vehicles in
the car park ,and yet the swims were all taken. Perhaps they
all live locally!! More like the water is now heavily poached..I
too witnessed a pair of young lads "surface baiting " ,and
also stalking the fish .Why didn't I intervene! Well the
reason being I was outnumbered by the increasingly awareness
of the persons being the "travelling type"
Nuff said! Anyhow more pleasent thoughts on our new acquired
water!!
David & James
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| Mitchells farm
I arrived
at Mitchells farm around 6 a.m. on the first day of opening-
27th August- intending to supervise all the crowds of members
wishing to try ournew water. Of course I only saw one other
member plus our fishery officer Andy Banham all day. Walking
upstream from the farm towards Shonks MillI dropped in anywhere
there was a pool or even a small hole in the weeds, and almost
all of these held fish. Some members may be put off by thevast
tracks of weed which cover the river at the upstream end. However
this situation only serves to push the fish into small areas,
where they can be caught in numbers. I made a point of moving
out of each swim after catching five fish. Having my normal
Roding tackle of an 18ft rod plus 4lb line direct certainly
helped. A bag of shredded bread plus a few new slices is all
you need. Dropping, literally, into these quite deep swims
yielded 20 roach to 10oz, six
chub to 2.5lbs, and a nice perch on my octopus rig - four redworms
hooked in the middle. Andy Banham pointed out the swim with
the barbel, not only some 5lb fish but smaller ones which get
to the bait before their parents! You
may find lots of farm machinery in the yard, but please park
away from them sensibly. We met the owner who is quite happy
for members to park on
the hard standing near to the field, as long as the machinery
can move in
& out and he can drive down his track towards the M25. After
fishing I called in at Passingford Bridge. The bottom
end is unfishable at the moment due to duckweed, but walk
upstream and you will eventually find clear
areas. Andy did this on Saturday evening and took plenty
of roach plus a nice 2lbs 2oz perch. As always
with the Roding, you are now seeing it at its most difficult,
it only gets better towards winter, so pray for a deluge to clear
the duckweed, dig those
worms, and put those cheap loaves from Tesco in the Moulinex,
travel light, and catch truly wild fish. The owner appears
happy at the moment, please
do not give him any reason to be upset, such as bad parking,
wrongly applying our padlock at Shonks Mill, or abusing his
animals, and we will have
this water for years to come. Please
keep me informed of any notable catches, especially if you
find those barbel!
DEREK A. HOWARD |
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We
all fished here on two occasions 1st trip 8lb common,7lb2oz
tench,40 roach and my wife alison also caught a hungry 4lb
8oz jack pike with two maggots,size 20 hook on 3lb line 2nd time 10lb common,6lb
tench,over 100 small roach and 64 perch.
Mark Lewis |
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| Straits Mill 9th September |
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I
fished Straits Mill on Sunday (9th September 05) with my Dad
and Uncle, it was really quiet all day with none of us having
so much as a bleep on our buzzers! At around 6pm the people
in the swim next to ours left and I decided to try my luck
in there, as it was so difficult to cast where I was, due to
the trees. I had only cast in about 5 minutes when the line
started stripping from my reel, about 10 minutes later I had
this 21lb 12oz Carp on the bank! The fish is a PB for me and
is also bigger than anything my dad and Uncle have caught!
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Caught
these two lovely carp (10lb common – 13lb mirror) on
Saturday 03/07/05 on a short afternoon session – both
fought like demons!
Bill Day |
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HAD FIRST AND ONLY THREE DAY SESSION WITH MY DAD FIRST
WEEK OF AUGUST HAD 14 FISH TO 18LB ATTACHED ALL ON BOILYS ON
PIT 1 AT SOUTHMINSTER
Lisa Foster |
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I
fished southminster for the weekend with my brother and my
dad. we fished pit 6. all three of us done well my dad catching
other 20 carp, me catching other 10 and my brother catching
about 5. but i caught the biggest fish and that was a carp
weighing in at 10lb's (as shown in the picture).
Daniel
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went for a 5 day trip to southminster (6/6/05-10/6/05), my wife
myself and my son.we had 22 carp in all, although under 10lbs,my
son had a 8lb 14oz mirror and my wife had the biggest carp at
10lb 10oz on float fished maggots.all in all a good weeks fishing.
We were fishing pit 6
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fished pit one at southminster on 01/06/05 catching carp to 10lb.
All the fish i caught were on maggot (sweetcorn and boilies being
ignored) and were in excellent condition. Attached is a picture
of the 10lb common carp I caught (on 2 1/4lb line and took over
10 mins to land).
Michael
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Me and
my dad went to willow mere on the 18th of july. I caught a
14lb common carp, 13lb 8oz common carp and a 9lb 8oz mirror
carp and my dad caught three fish between 8-9lb.
Andrew
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| Windmill
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I am a new member having joined
with my wife in April 2005 (Receipt No.0133) and must
send this email to say how much my wife and I have enjoyed fishing
the Swan Lake, on some occassions catching Common Carp of a good
size between 5lb and 11.5lb. The venue is well maintained and
pleased to say very little sign of debris left by other anglers.
On odd occassions I have noticed anglers using two rods and as
I understand it, the ruling is 1 rod per person on this particular
lake. Whilst not wishing to invite an argument, should I remind
these anglers of the ruling or should I just leave well alone
and just concentrate on our own fishing. We are both in our 60's
looking only for a quiet life and a good days fishing. I
have attached a photograph of one of the mirror carp I have
had the pleasure of landing with considerable fight. |
Colin B. Hill |
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lake sat 27 aug
We
fished swan lake sat 27 aug had 11 carp biggest 15lb 10oz and
two bream 6lb each also had tench to 2lbs in margins
Colin Noller |
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I
am a new member having joined with my wife in April
2005 (Receipt No.0133) and must send this email to say
how much my wife and I have enjoyed fishing the Swan Lake,
on some occasions catching Common Carp of a good size between
5lb and 11.5lb. The venue is well maintained and pleased
to say very little sign of debris left by other anglers. I
have attached a photograph of one of the mirror carp
I have had the pleasure of landing with considerable fight.
Colin
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Windmill lakes on the 13th
June
Had a good
day at windmill lakes on the 13th June. I arrived at around
6am with my dad and fished in the far corner of field lake.
My dad stayed until lunchtime and went home a happy man after
having 3 carp on corn, fished in conjunction with a chopped
down pineapple pop-up. I stayed until around 5pm and had a
total of 7 carp, including a common of 12lb and a mirror of
11lb. I fished with lt94 boilies over small beds of multiblend
pellets, all made by VISION baits. We both kept our tactics
simple, semi-fixed setups with basic hair rigs.Also, on a quick
note, congratulations to a younger member who had himself a
14lb common on Swan lake. Just one of a few doubles in the
day, well done mate!
Joe
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Windmill lakes
Been to windmill lakes
a few times now and found most people on field lake and hardly
anyone on Swan lake. At times had it to myself! Fished
sweetcorn on lift method with a small crystal float and 6 pound
line. With small a small amount of corn as free offerings
little and often, on one occasion I had 5 good sized bream ,
1 tench and 1 good carp in 3 hours. The next two times
I was only there for 3 hours and took 2 double figure carp both
times.
On each occasion this was right in the margins almost straight
under my rod tip, all under single or double corn.
Carl Beech
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Fished
Field or Swan (the first one !) lake on a Saturday afternoon,
with my wife and son (pictured)
action slow but steady resulting in some roach, rudd, carp and a couple
of
great bream (3-4 lb) on the float rod whilst I had a couple of carp on
heavier rigs (5lb & 9lb). We lost a double figure carp on the float rod.
All in all, an excellent family water – and within a short drive from
my home
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