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Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 21st, 2014, 3:08 pm
by Dave C
Its still over 3 weeks to go for this one. They have done some work dredging this lake a bit, the fish were removed and have been replaced. I think his original plan was not to restock the F1s but to include more proper carp and silvers.
I haven't got any further info than this so if anyone comes up with anything before the match please post it here. Again this is not going to be a big weight water and doesn't respond to too much pressure. I would suggest it may pay to be a bit cautious in the way you fish it.
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Keepnets are supplied one for silvers and one for carp and there is a 70lb net limit. Carp over 10lb and Silvers over 5lb must be weighed and returned immediately.
Right who wants to join in for a hard days fishing.
Dave
Kevin
Tony W
Gino
Tony
Keith
Clive
Terry
Al
John
Zack
Jim
Troy
Mick
Graham
Rod
Pete
Martin
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Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 21st, 2014, 3:43 pm
by naughtycockney
Count me in Dave, I need to get rid of another quid to Si or Tony
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Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 21st, 2014, 4:03 pm
by wat2tone
Count me in dave
Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 21st, 2014, 4:05 pm
by kev the catch
Yes please Dave.
Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 21st, 2014, 6:02 pm
by Dave C
Count me in Dave, I need to get rid of another quid to Si or Tony
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Well it wouldn't surprise me if you drew the flier AGAIN and blew it just like you did last year.
Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 21st, 2014, 6:24 pm
by naughtycockney
Flier,flier, it was full of floating lake crap at the end, if I remember right
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Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 21st, 2014, 7:30 pm
by keith
Stick me down Dave
Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 21st, 2014, 7:46 pm
by SiDev
Can't do this one.....
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Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 21st, 2014, 7:49 pm
by Spamwham
I'll be there Dave. Jim's away this week so will confirm when he's back.
Bit puzzled by this de-stocking talk.
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I know 1 or 2 very fancy bream were caught last year - correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the bulk of our weights last year were made up of F1s and/or small carp? Wonder whats left if they've been drastically reduced?
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Are you still trying to contact them to get a bit more info?
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Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 21st, 2014, 10:44 pm
by Dave C
I would normally speak to them in the week before but I think it may warrant a fact finding mission.
Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 22nd, 2014, 8:41 pm
by Clive
Yes please Dave
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Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 22nd, 2014, 9:02 pm
by tom240589
I can't make this one sorry, I'll be lapping up the sun in las vegas
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Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 26th, 2014, 9:14 am
by Tel
Count me in Dave
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Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 29th, 2014, 3:36 pm
by mickyboy
Count me in please mr c do you know if the van will be open for brekkie otherwise we might have to pop into monks again?
Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: April 29th, 2014, 7:38 pm
by al
Yes please Dave
Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: May 1st, 2014, 6:37 pm
by john_holdsworth
yes please Dave and Zack also
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, but let you know re Martin
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By the way Zack cant make Rolfs in sept as he's way
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Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: May 1st, 2014, 6:55 pm
by Dave C
do you know if the van will be open for brekkie
I don't know for definite but I expect it will be open.
Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: May 1st, 2014, 7:50 pm
by Spamwham
Dave - Jim is good for this one.
Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: May 2nd, 2014, 4:23 am
by mickyboy
Are you going to put my name down then mr c ?
Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014
Posted: May 6th, 2014, 1:53 pm
by Tel
As previously mentioned by Dave took myself off to Lake Sophie yesterday for a spot of "fact finding"
According to the bailiff they have deepened the lake and taken out all the F1's and added some "proper carp"
There were a few people fishing and eventually I ended up on Peg 15 - a lot of the farside vegetation has been removed and most if not all of the trees have been cut down to a few feet high and it seemed wider than I remembered from last year.
Down the track it was 8-9ft deep and apparently it goes to 11ft in some places - as I didn't have any rigs made up to that depth I decided to fish top 2 + 1 in the margins either side, the depth here was 4-5ft.
Fed both sides with different sized pellets and after about 10mins float buried and attached to something completely different that didn't want to play nicely - eventually resulting in a very nice mirror of about 10lb.
This pattern continued for most of the day which unfortunately I had to cut short by leaving at 3.30pm, I had caught 13 carp including another two around 10lb and apart from one of about 2lb all the rest were between 5 and 9lb so bring the Rolfs gear chaps, the only "silver" I caught was a tench which was around 5lb.
It has to be said that on the day with more pressure it will probably be completely different and also that I only used pellets and didn't even try corn or meat but I think it will probably be a lot different from last year
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