Fishing Report – Sunday 8th July
There had been a couple of big matches on the lakes in the last week or so which meant that I was quite keen to get back and see if any of my latest ideas was going to work. Sadly, they didn’t really get a chance, I drew peg 17 on the Top Lake. It’s one of those pegs that’s only put in when there are a lot of anglers booked into the match and unfortunately I drew it. 7 carp “down the edge” to the right, all caught very late in the match gave me a weight of 50 lbs and another also ran on the weigh sheet.
The combination of bright sunshine and lots of pegs being used meant that weights were down on what we’ve been seeing lately. The top 2 weights came from Horseshoe Lake and 88 lbs was the highest weight on Top Lake (once more from the back spit).
All of the big matches are done for the time being, so it’s back to open matches for a few weeks now.
Incidentally, this crap weather that we’ve been suffering has done wonders for filling up the lakes that were empty a few weeks back. Old Lake is completely full now and the large new John’s Lake looks to be about 2 feet from being full. It looks like the plans for John’s Lake to be up and running by the autumn might just happen. It’ll be good to have a 60 peg match lake there and I’m sure that the pleasure anglers will be pleased to be able to fish Top Lake more often.