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Past News from 2008
20th October 2008
It's nearly the end of our season and its much quieter around the lake
now. The fishing is steady and last week a
typical net for a day was between 20-30lb. This would have contained a
lot of fish with many being only small bream or roach; some bigger
bream featured plus crucian carp. I have been busy fencing at the back
of the lake and the camping field and this is so we can move towards
the keeping of livestock next spring and also stop potential predators in the depths of winter. The next job is the removal
or pollarding of a number of trees that are close to the lake and are
either spoiling the swims or depositing too many leaves into the
water. I've updated the customer gallery
with fish pictures recently received; many thanks to all who have sent
in your photos. I don't expect to be updating this news page again
until next year so if you are planning a late holiday and want to know
the latest please give us a call. Our 2009 price list is now
available, see our tariffs page for
details. We will be sending a copy of our 2009 price list to all our
existing customers between now and Christmas.
2nd Sept 2008
Unfortunately the fishing during August was not as good as we had seen
previously. The change coincide with the unsettled
weather we were suffering. It became necessary to revert back to
tactics not needed since the start of the year and use maggots and
small hooks. Another change was the methods needed to catch carp; they
are often seen basking on the top but rarely caught with floating
baits. One customer tried floating dog biscuit and was rewarded with
several carp from 5lb up to 13lb. This week has seen our biggest carp
a 22lb common again caught on dog biscuit but by fishing just below
the surface. (11th Sept -
I've now been sent the photos and have
added to the customer gallery) Right now customers are all catching on double maggot for
roach & perch with a single maggot working best for small carp, soft
pellets for bream and tench and meat or dog biscuit for carp. The lake
is in good shape, I estimate the water is only about 4 inches down from
full.
There has been a problem with email addressed to fishpics@tetfordcountrycottages.co.uk
and so I haven't received them. It turns out that I can no longer use
this address and so I have created a new one which is fish-pics @
tetfordcountrycottages etc. (notice the dash in fish-pics and when
entering the email address please ignore the spaces and end with .co.uk).
My apologies to anyone who has tried to email photos without success,
please resend them to the new address if you can.
17th July 2008
Last week was a good week for carp with a variety of mirror and
common carp being caught ranging from 5lb 1oz to 11lb 2oz plus our
biggest this year a common at just over 19lb caught in the margins on
luncheon meat, with a 14 hook on 10lb line. It wasn't just carp
being caught we saw some lovely mixed nets of silver fish plus tench.
I've been sent photos of many of these fish and they've all been added
to the customer gallery. The fishing this week has remained good for
roach, rudd, bream and tench (biggest 5½lb), but no crucians and not
many carp. A variety of baits are working well: green paste on no 14
hook while cup feeding small pellets, also worm with groundbait in
mesh feeder and bread on the hook while feeding a mixture of hemp and
small pellets. Maggots still work but too often attract small and
greedy perch which will happily down a hook loaded with three maggots.
The recent carp have been caught on small tiger nut boilies. I've just
installed net dip tanks by the tackle store and there's a new fishery
rule to soak and rinse all nets on arrival and after visiting any
other waters. We haven't had a disease or parasite problem but
obviously want to protect our fish the best we can and follow best
practice.
New net dip tanks in front of tackle store
24th June 2008
I've been updating the pictures on the main web pages and so the
photographs of the lake and site that you see are have all been taken
over the past week or so. The fishing is still good for silvers, tench,
crucian & small carp. As usual larger carp can all be seen on the top
but are not easy to catch. I've added some very recent fish photos to
the customer gallery and so you can see
a selection of what's being caught right now. Below are some pics of
carp and rudd on the top and a few or our recent customers in action,
you can click these to enlarge. A variety of baits are being used
successfully including pellets, sweetcorn, worm, & maggots. I know
that a 9lb common landed two days ago was caught on simply luncheon
meat. The water level is remaining constant at maximum depth now that
our past problems of not enough or even too much water have been
solved.
 
3rd June 2008
We've been seeing a fair bit of the sun recently and summer definitely
here with regards to the lake, grounds and the fishing. All the trees
are in full leaf the lake and grounds look stunning. Customers have
consistently been successful in catching silver fish of all species. A
variety of baits all now seem to work which is a change from the
maggot only days we experienced earlier in the year. Sweet corn has
been a favourite and successful bait over the past few weeks and
customers have caught both silver fish and sometimes unexpected and
therefore difficult to handle carp. Tench have been showing up again
and a good number have been caught recently. We have been sent a
number of catch photos and I've added these to our Customer Gallery.
We typically receive many photos of carp but very few of silver fish
and this doesn't accurately reflect the type of fishing enjoyed by
many of our customers. If you've filled your net with silvers whist
staying here and do have some photos I would love to add them to the
gallery so please send then in.
Over the last few days the most productive time for carp is
approaching and after dusk. As usual our sun bathing carp seem to
prefer relaxing to feeding. After an uneventful day one customer was
rewarded during the evening by six decent carp in just a few hours the
biggest of which was a 16lb common.
7th April 2008
We had a white Easter but this didn't put off our hardy angling
customers. The fishing was good for silver fish (considering the cold
conditions) but did need small tackle and bait to get the fish to
take. Size 18 or 20 hooks with pinkies worked best for two pole
fishing anglers on pegs 13 and 14 (one of which is pictured below).
The fish caught inevitably did include a lot of small roach, rudd and
skimers but also some very nice roach indeed at about the 2lb mark.
Also some small common carp and crucians. One customer looking for
bigger carp did succeed in catching one at 5lb and another at 10lb and
also confessed to loosing 2 decent fish. I know that some people have
tried to catch tench using worm but unfortunately were not successful
so I'm not aware of a any tench being caught as yet. Since Easter we
have seen fairly consistently good fishing for silver fish. A customer
last week reported approximately 25lb in his net each day at the end
of a short mornings session. He also enjoyed fighting with small
common carp 1 1/2 to 2 lb on light tackle but didn't enjoy so much
getting smashed buy a hooligan fish, I presume a big carp choosing to
feed on maggots. I've seen a lot of big carp on the top in the
sunshine but they remain elusive. Our Games room with pool table is
now open and has been a popular addition. Our children's play area
(ages 3 to 10) is under construction and will be completed by the end
of April (now complete)
 
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