Local lakes (wiltshire ish area)

[Damon]

Evening Lads my name is Damon and its my first post on here. I'm a local lad and have been fishing the Carp Pond also known as The School of Infantry for about 25years now so I'm interested to read about your comments regarding its ownership and fate. I spoke to a local landowner today and was reassured that there is no way on this earth that it will be filled in due to the fact it is part of the natural water course/table and that planning permission was refused.
So you can hang back with those nets lads and delete the environment agency from your speed dials.
On a serious note the amount of rubbish down there is getting beyond a joke, there is a problem with fly tippers which to be honest we can do nothing about, but there is also a lot of fishing related rubbish down there ie boiley bags tins of sweetcorn luncheon meat i could go on and on. There are a lot of us still fishing this lake free of charge so could i ask that when we do we pick up any rubbish we see and together maybe we can make a small improvement.

P.S If anybody has a van there is a bloody great TV that somebody has dumped in the Willow swim, be great if somebody could get rid of it before some idiot throws it in. Cheers Damon

[Banana Steve]

Hello Damon, welcome to the forum. It would be nice if a club could take it on again but it would need a serious amount of work. It wouldn't be so bad if the area could be fenced off to discourage fly tippers.

[Damon]

Thanks for the welcome Steve. Local Highways Agency will not allow a fence due to its close proximity to the road, i remember the club looked into it many years ago, and the hassle Bruce the owner of Frogmore had to go through to put up a fence was unreal and costly. Rubbish at the lake has always been a concern but it has been managed by ourselves the members, i suppose it was always going to happen the moment the club lost the water. Fingers crossed we the few that continue to fish it can keep it looking tidy.

Damon

[Ricky lee]

Originally Posted by Damon

Thanks for the welcome Steve. Local Highways Agency will not allow a fence due to its close proximity to the road, i remember the club looked into it many years ago, and the hassle Bruce the owner of Frogmore had to go through to put up a fence was unreal and costly. Rubbish at the lake has always been a concern but it has been managed by ourselves the members, i suppose it was always going to happen the moment the club lost the water. Fingers crossed we the few that continue to fish it can keep it looking tidy.

Damon

So Damon is the new local landowner still letting people fish, As i used to fish it when i was a member there years ago. I would love to try and catch one of them big tench or carp in there again

[Damon]

I wish i was the new landowner, i would put armed guards down there and shoot any flytippers lol.....

[Ryan messen]

Im interested in fishing this carp pond but not sure exactly where it is. I know the frogmore lake and eden vale im wondering if it is the lake just around the corner from frogmore with the rail lines along side any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

[Banana Steve]

its down slag lane which is just past frogmore as if you were heading towards painters lake it is on the left hand side. Its not a big lake!

[jdugg]

1 of my m8's has been fishing there , he's done 10 nights in last 3 weeks and had 2 carp out.

[sarah]

I was just reading some of your onfo on lakes in the wiltshire area and you mentioned lefarge, could someone please tell me where this is and what its like, and what to expect to catch, cheers Sarah

[Banana Steve]

As far as i am aware quote me if i am wrong, but they have changed hands and the fishing is club membership at £45 ish, the lake is in Westbury wilts what used to be Blue Circle cememt works.