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Garbolino Lindholme Lakes has announced that luncheon meat will be banned in open matches and festivals from the 1st June onwards.

Talking to Pole Fishing, fishery owner Neil Grantham was firm about his decision on the new rule, and said “It’s been coming for a long time – there are several reasons for me banning luncheon meat.

“The first and foremost is to do with water quality. After a weekends matches during the summer, you can often see fatty scum and meat slicks on the lake – I haven’t had any problems with the fish because of this, but it’s not what I want to see on my fishery.


“I don’t profess to be an expert on fish, but after looking into some facts, I’ve discovered that it actually takes a carp three days to digest meat. Conversely, it takes only an hour for a carp to digest a pellet. This is due to the fatty waste in luncheon meat product. When I first dug The Bonsai lake, it was an average of six feet deep in the middle – now it’s only four feet. I’m certain that the build up of meat waste has a lot to do with the accumulation of this matter on the bottom. Pellets and natural baits break down naturally and are eaten by bacteria and enzymes in the water. However, the meat waste is not.

“The effect of meat on a fishery wouldn’t be so bad if anglers stuck to using just one tin per session. However, on the festivals and in some open matches, people were turning up with up to a dozen tins! I initially thought about putting a limit on the bait, but this would be far too difficult to police, and I’m certain that people would try and fiddle any limit rules.

“I’m still letting club anglers use the bait at my fishery, as they use far less than those attending the open matches and festivals. Also, many of the clubs send out the rules from fisheries to their members early in the year, and with many of them not following us on Facebook and the like, they could turn up with little bait other than meat. However, next year, I think I will ban the bait at the fishery all together.

“It’s worth noting that the Fish ‘O’ Mania and Match This qualifiers are not classed as open matches, so meat will be allowed on these

Ban pellets and method feeders

If he's going to ban it, it should be a total ban not just banned in opens . He says "many of the clubs send out the rules from fisheries to their members early in the year, and with many of them not following us on Facebook and the like". Surely lindholme have a contact number for the clubs that have matches booked. A simple call explaining that as of x date meat will be banned is all that is needed then its up to the club to notify its members.

Also surely fat off the meat floats to the top and not sink so how as there been a build up of 2 foot of meat fat on the bottom of 1 of his pools? I have read on another site that as he bans meat he as put the price of his pellets up

I understand that some anglers go over the top and say they have feed 12 tins of meat but that can be over exaggerating the fact they have done well what about about the anglers that feed 20 tins of sweetcorn we humans can't digest sweetcorn skins and knorr can fish .how many gallons of casters go in pellets, paste,liquid gunks dyes, other meats and gallons of dead maggots i think these fisheries as time goes on and high tech baits unfold this silt of waste will become a big problem especially on the smaller lakes
Saying that you only have to look at what proper carp anglers are now putting into the specimen lakes surely this is as bad monkey nuts, tiger nuts hemp by the gallon, big boilies by the bucket load so should baits be banned

na just ban hooks joff then you have got nothing to but the bait on to