Lodge farm fishery, silver fish lake - Talk Angling fishing chat and tackle advice

D N W · 3rd May 2007, 03:55 PM

Fishing a match on the silver fish lake (top lake) next week has any one got any info on best methods baits etc.

cheers steve

mpo38 · 3rd May 2007, 04:51 PM

Take lots of chopped worm/caster. Won a match last year with 44lb of skimmers. Do you know what pegs your on?

D N W · 5th May 2007, 03:18 PM

Cheers mpo38, i think we have got the lake, which are the fliers. Also looking at the web site it goes to 6ft on the first shelf then down to 16ft on the second, do you have to fish the deeper water or can you catch the skimmers on the first shelf. steve.

waggman · 10th May 2007, 10:21 PM

Hi D N W

If you get drawn on a island peg on the road side, don't get caught out like me some big carp to be had, i got smashed 3 times befor i got them sussed out. Fish pellet between the large over hanging trees and hold on. But small micro pellet and swim stim ground bait works well for the skimmers.

Regards Waggman

danb · 6th June 2007, 09:18 PM

hi all, i too have a match here but on the island lake. Not fished it before so any help would be good. I was just gonna fish pellet with pole and feeder wat you guys think?

Ashfield Dave · 7th June 2007, 12:09 PM

Fished a match last season and had a all skimmer catch of 37lb, all up in the water, take plenty of choppy and caster.

waggman · 7th June 2007, 10:07 PM

Long island pond

Fish up in the water about 12" to 18" deep, with or without a float on the line, (floating pole if nessersary). Feed casters with a single caster on the hook and you will catch all day, but you have to keep feeding a small pouch of casters every 20 seconds.

D N W · 8th June 2007, 06:06 PM

Thanks for the help fished the match on 8th of may, won my section and came second overall with 18lb of skimmers on worm over worm and groundbait. All my gear is for carp waters so bringing skimmers in from 14 mtrs on 10 hollow elastic (my lightest) takes some doing without bumping them of.

For a silver fish lake i was beaten by 3 big carp by a so called silver fish expert who slags of carp venues just my luck.