A trip to Dorset

[mithrandir]

Hi,

Twiddler and I went for some fishing at Riverside lakes this weekend, had seen the web site, looked good, so we thought we would give it a go.
We were impressed when we arrived, a lovely set up , 3 lakes all looked good, not too put off by the £8 for a day we looked arround, not a single sole there ( should of sounded alarm bells), great I thought a bit of peace. At that point I did not realise how peaceful it would be!!

We settled in, one lake each and a spare if we needed it, all were a bit muddy but little bits of surface disturbance said to me there are some fish here.

I cast out a ledger on corn and waited, and waited, no takers, so I thought, nice and still I will give the floats a run out, and try a couple of maggots.

As soon as the maggots hit the water it was like a scene from Piranha, the float jigged and bobbed and behold a shoal of fry had picked the hook clean. Undeterred I kept trying I was landing tiddler common carp by the bucket full,
I tried all the bait box could give me, corn, luncheon meat, maggots, curried luncheon meat, my sarnies, all I got was tiddlers, I had one not 2 inches long trying to swallow a piece of corn and a size 10 hook, boy were they hungry!
I did get 2 fish out of there, both about the size of the one in this picture:-



but all were of this breed, common carp I believe, this was the same on the other lake Twiddler was on, small fry only, we did sight 6 large carp basking at the back of lake 1 but they were not feeding, just watching us pull tiddlers out.

We gave up and called it a day. Later I was chatting to a man working in a local tackle shop and he said he had the same experience, and maybe in 5 years time when the fry mature it will be a place to fish, but until then I would say let the lake keeper feed the fish and let them grow, for £8 each we had the privilege of feeding his juvenile stock.

Mithrandir & Twiddler

[Greenheart]

Nice report Mike. At least you caught. The fish in the picture is a Rudd.

[mithrandir]

thanks Greenheart,

It was ruddy Rudd all day!

Mike

[baitmaster]

great report mithrandir but the one in the pic actually looks like a rudd to me


tightlines
kevin

[mithrandir]

Hi bait master,

You can tell I am a novice, fish identification is not top of my skills list yet, but I am learning

Mike

[Norfolkboy]

Nice one Mithrandir, like the others have said it's a rudd, nice fish still.

[Twiddler]

don't worry Mike, at the moment a fish is a fish to me too, as long as mine are bigger than yours.......'tha'll never happen I hear him say' I hate it when he is right

(",) happy days are fishing days

Claudia

[baitmaster]

trust me mithrandir its not a problem, ask me to indentify a sea fish i get it wrong all the time but i,m learning from the guys on here

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kevin

[Fishing Forum Admin]

great post mate

[pingu]

nice read and pic there