Still Feeding Despite the Weather
Despite the changeable weather during October, carp continue to be caught from the clubs lakes.
Craig Brooks fished Gingerbread during the week and had a 25lb Mirror Carp.
Swan Lake continues with its recent run of 30lber’s, Julian Peacock had both a Mirror Carp and Common Carp, both of which weighed 32lb. Karl Franklin had a 20.10 Common form Swan Lake.
Regular anglers on McGregor continued to find the carp feeding, Robert Livock reported a 17lb Mirror Carp, Mick Day had a 15.04 Fully Scaled Mirror, while Karl Franklin after his 20lb Common from Swan, had 9lb and 11lb Mirrors.
Keith Johnson, fished the rivers and despite finding many areas over grown, caught a decent chub from the Ivel at Tempsford
The club have to report that two anglers were recently caught by a bailiff, fishing well outside of the permitted hours for ‘Day Anglers’ as a result of this both anglers had their memberships removed for the remainder of the season
Another PB
2 weeks after having a new personal best carp out of McGregor Lake, Paul Burton switched to Swan Lake and landed a new PB, a 31lb 03oz Mirror Carp, Paul also had a 12.07 mirror from Swan Lake. Another angler fishing Swan Lake was Alan Wilkie who hada 21.15 Mirror as well as a 3lb+ Eel, a species which seems to be getting caught more regularly by anglers fishing the Sandy Lakes.
Not to be out done, Julian Peacock had a 32.02 Common Carp from Swan.
The next local PAC meeting will be held on the 10th October, with a talk being given by Dave McLaughlin, details of venue to be given later
Sandy Lakes Provide a PB
Carp have continued to be caught from the Sandy lakes in the last few weeks.
David Grant caught the two tone common from Swan Lake at 34.02, while Mick Broom had a 30.04 carp from the same lake during the week. Another angler who wanted to fish Swan Lake was Paul Burton, but finding the lake busy moved to McGregor Lake and ended the session with 10 carp, the largest being a new pb of 24.10. Another anger to catch a 20lber from McGregor Lake was Karl Franklin, who had a 22.12 Mirror Carp
Chub, Eels and a Barbel
Reports of fish being caught have been few and far between during August. Aaron Prior after an overnight session at McGregor Lake, went and fished the back meadows in Biggleswade and reported catching three chub upto 5.06 and a barbel of 10.05.
Steve Hill took his daughter Star to McGregor Lake, where she caught her first carp a 9lb Common. Steve also reported that he has caught several Eels from the lake, the largest just under 5lb.
Once again the club is having to report that there have been several instances where rules have not been followed. The first involves discarded tackle, with one member reporting that several times at McGregor Lake he has picked up yards of line discarded in swims, unfortunately on one occassion a hook with a boilie left attached was discarded which was picked up by his dog, resulting it it swallowing the hook, this required a visit to the vets to have surgery for the hook to be removed.
The club has also received yet another report of human waste being left in a swim om McGregor Lake, which had been covered up with some weed. This disgusting behaviour will not be tolerated and once again the club reminds everyone to read the rules and make sure that they have the necessary equipment with them. Any member found breaking the rules and leaving human waste on the fisheries will be banned for life.
Still a Few Being Caught
With the hot weather continuing, fish have often been reluctant to feed, but some anglers have been reporting some success.
Paul Prior and his 16 yr old son Aaron spent the night fishing at McGregors and caught 9 carp the biggest being 18.9 and the smallest 10.8 and also had 6 bream weighing from 4.2 to 6.7 all caught between the hours of 8.30pm and 4.30am.
Another angler doing at session at McGregor was Karl Franklin who despite losing several carp, banked eight carp during a day session up to 15lbs, while not catching as many Anthony Pogmore caught a 14lb Mirror and a 12.04 Common.
Alan Wilkie reported catching a 31.04 Mirror Carp during the day from Swan Lake.
Once again the club has to report that some members are still not following club rules, David Grant and Mick Broom (our bailiffs) have reported finding human excrement together with toilet paper behind the Birches swim on two occasions recently. A warning that, if the culprit(s) can be identified, they will be permanently expelled from the club. READ THE RULES and remember your bucket.
