Quite weedy but lots of fish feeding. Bream at the A14 road bridge. Feeder or long pole seems best.
Weed cutting in progress.Lots of roach and Rudd at upware on bread flake.
Duck weed in the margins but down the river track is OK. Very clear but lots of fish topping.
Maggot acounting for the silver fish.
Hugh travelled from Dorset to fish the River Lark for Tench. Hugh grew up in Ely before moving away and so he wanted to revisit where he fished in his childhood. Hugh sent us this report from his day on the Lark:
Thank you Graham for all your advice about the Lark. As you'll see from the attached, I had a grand time tenching in the traditional way and caught a couple, plus lost and got broken by a couple too, despite 6lb line straight through. They are quite feisty so I didn't risk breaking my pole. The Lark is lovely, (even tho' a lot of duck weed at this late season), but there's too many fish in the river and I had a job getting past them to contact the tench ... a fun problem to have! No wonder it produces so many good pike. Anyway, thank you again for all your help ... much enjoyed the visit and will be back before too long. Will try earlier in the season next year in the hope they aren't so cunning! All the best for now ... Hugh.
For Graham's tale of a "Brief" Encounter on the Lark please
click here
Great sport. Lots of roach on hemp. Bream and tench overnight in double figure catches.
Very weedy. Best avoid.
Skimmers roach and dace showing in double figure catches.
Andersons lake is fishing very well at the moment with good size roach, perch and small carp being caught.
Sue Reynolds sent us this catch report, fished on Thursday 7 August:
Mixed catch of roach (caught on pellet), common and mirror carp caught on sausage/or floating bread flake. Koi seen cruising on the surface but could not be tempted! Unfortunately fish not weighed.
Quite slow at the moment with only small roach and skimmers showing.
We gave permission for filming at the lake for the programme, Escape to the Country.
Lots of Rudd roach and tench. Weed cutting complete which has stirred up the fish!
Lots of carp in the 12lb to 15lb range. Small roach and Rudd to the general angler fishing maggot.
