Claygate Lake Sophie 17th May 2014

#1

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.

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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#2

Count me in Dave, I need to get rid of another quid to Si or Tony

#3

Count me in dave

#4

Yes please Dave.

#5

Count me in Dave, I need to get rid of another quid to Si or Tony

Well it wouldn't surprise me if you drew the flier AGAIN and blew it just like you did last year.

#6

Flier,flier, it was full of floating lake crap at the end, if I remember right

#7

Stick me down Dave

#8

Can't do this one.....

#9

I'll be there Dave. Jim's away this week so will confirm when he's back.

Bit puzzled by this de-stocking talk.

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?

#10

I would normally speak to them in the week before but I think it may warrant a fact finding mission.

#11

Yes please Dave

#12

I can't make this one sorry, I'll be lapping up the sun in las vegas

#13

Count me in Dave

#14

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?

#15

Yes please Dave

#16

yes please Dave and Zack also

, 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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#17

do you know if the van will be open for brekkie

I don't know for definite but I expect it will be open.

#18

Dave - Jim is good for this one.

#19

Are you going to put my name down then mr c ?

#20

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