At last it seems that winter might be behind us, it’s been one of the hardest ones that I can remember so good riddance to it !!.
The warmer weather has encouraged a few fish to feed, in fact in the last week we’ve had carp of 24lb, 25lb and 27lb caught from Main Lake. Two of them were caught early morning, the other in the middle of the day so there’s no need to freeze during the night time hours if you want to catch a specimen fish.
On Wednesday of this week we had a visit from Roy Marlow, the owner of the much-loved Glebe Fishery in Leicestershire.
He was able to offer some good advice as to how we might improve the fishing on the lakes. Roy’s theory is that you can pile more and more fish into a lake but unless the fish are happy then they just will not feed. His main advice was that we should plant some different reeds that will help to filter the water in the lakes. He also gave us some other ideas on what we might try to improve water quality in order to make our carp “happier” and therefore hungrier. None of his suggestions offer an instant fix but he’s convinced that the waters will improve steadily in the next three years and that in three years time the fishery will be as good as it ever was.