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June 08
The poor weather has set things back
somewhat.
The lake is fed by two streams. This is
hugely advantageous from the point of view of water quality and keeping the
water reasonably cool in the hot months. However with weeks of very serious rain
the streams have been more like rivers as millions of gallons of cold water have
poured into the top end of the lake.
Strangely this doesn't
appear to have had too much of an effect on the fish. From the day I arrived
back from the UK they have been actively wandering all around the lake. This was
really gratifying as the original stock of fish tend to stay close to the snags,
and there is always a worry that the new stock will take on the characteristics
of the original fish.
What the cold weather did to their feeding
behaviour I have no idea because I didn't get to fish until very recently. Once
the weather started to change I started to feed the fish and also to decide
where to have the first cast.
I have now fished two very short sessions.
The first was no more than 40 minutes and the second about 2 hours (it's great
owning your own fishery. A 7 ½ acre lake on my doorstep and I manage ¼ of a day
in 6 weeks!). In that time I have landed 4 very nice carp. See the picture on
the 'fish' page with the caption '1st fish to be banked'.
A small number of local lads are talking
about fishing in the next few weeks but we still have very few bookings. I can
see that plenty of people are looking at the web-site and we are already taking
bookings for next year. However, you could still be among the first to get
amongst this new stock.
Cheers for now, and
tight lines.
Steve
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