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markco · 15th January 2007, 09:23 PM

Hi Simon,
we have just finished our club pond its an oval shape with 23 pegs all well spaced out and plenty of room to ship poles back etc. It was started in Sept 04 and we modelled the place on Meadow pool at Heronbrook its widest part is only about 11mts so its comfortable fishing for all the lads (we have some oaps ) and they can fish the far side no problem.
The main track is within a 6 inches all the way round and there doesn't seem to be any flyer pegs as yet.
We have taken advice from the EA and have made it into a mixed coarse fishery and even though we still have to add more fish we are really glad that we didn't turn it into a carp puddle.We were advised to plant the water heavily with Sedges,Bulrush and iris etc and we have planted over 500 and this has made the water look at lot more mature even in 12 months. We even had the Roach and Rudd spawn twice this year

The matches have been fair all winter with between 4-6 lbs winning and the back up weights all close and only 2 carp have been caught in about 3 months although we dont have hundreds in the place they have switched off the funny thing is we have still been catching tench quite regularly all winter

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I would say that we have had to put in an awful lot of work to get it to its current state and it is a credit to the lads in the club for this, but what a feeling it is to sit there looking at what you have created it really does make you proud.

15th January 2007, 09:23 PM	#14 (permalink)
markco Carlsberg Tetley AC Trusted Angler Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Warrington Posts: 66	Hi Simon, we have just finished our club pond its an oval shape with 23 pegs all well spaced out and plenty of room to ship poles back etc. It was started in Sept 04 and we modelled the place on Meadow pool at Heronbrook its widest part is only about 11mts so its comfortable fishing for all the lads (we have some oaps ) and they can fish the far side no problem. The main track is within a 6 inches all the way round and there doesn't seem to be any flyer pegs as yet. We have taken advice from the EA and have made it into a mixed coarse fishery and even though we still have to add more fish we are really glad that we didn't turn it into a carp puddle.We were advised to plant the water heavily with Sedges,Bulrush and iris etc and we have planted over 500 and this has made the water look at lot more mature even in 12 months. We even had the Roach and Rudd spawn twice this year The matches have been fair all winter with between 4-6 lbs winning and the back up weights all close and only 2 carp have been caught in about 3 months although we dont have hundreds in the place they have switched off the funny thing is we have still been catching tench quite regularly all winter . I would say that we have had to put in an awful lot of work to get it to its current state and it is a credit to the lads in the club for this, but what a feeling it is to sit there looking at what you have created it really does make you proud.