wondering what has happened to the lake since it was fenced off by the pubs owners.who owns it/runs the club,can ya still fish there???? never seem to here about fish getting caught or if there are still fish in there.used to have some plumpers in there a couple of years ago when i was able to walk the dog .
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super-MAGuire
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me and a friend wondered the same, and it seems just abandoned and left to degrade and rot.
The small 1st pond is super weeded and sedimented right up, and the one to the left also looks sedmiented up and in a sorry state with the platforms smashed and litter all over and stuff.
BTW! i was able to view this from a light aircraft
i never just climbed around and into the area.... honestIts a shame, could be a lovely little area with some hours of work put in and a restocking... seen some small roach juvenile in the 1st pond mind, so may be some fish remaining....
big sid
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Rumour had it if were talking about the same place that the pup owner got sick of the arseh*les of the world so decided to seek planning permission. plans to save any fish and move them were talked about,don't know the outcome.Planning permission wasn't granted so the owner decided if I can't beat the arseh*les I'll join them hence the fence and the state of the place.REMEMBER how this post started "Rumour"
Members of the LPAA were informed at a meeting last year NOT to go.
Members of the LPAA were informed at a meeting last year NOT to go.
Used to fish the place many years ago when a day ticket was 2 quid for the coarse lake (small one), ticket bought from the pub. The bigger lake used to be stocked with rainbows and was a few quid more, water in their was crystal clear and there were some real big fish stocked. The coarse lake was chocker with mirrors, commons, chub, tench, bream, perch and roach. My personal biggest out of there was an 8lb common though 5lbers were in abundance. The chub were usually around the 2lb mark and I had a 5lb mirror once. Seen loads of dustbin lids pulled out also. Anyway a packed in coarse angling but still used to go up there for a walk around as I only live round the corner and it just seemed to go downhill overnight, loads of weed etc. Also the trout lake business was stopped and turned into a coarse fishery also, fish from the small lake were transfered into it. The water colour seemed to darken, again overnight. I also heard that alot of the big fish from the small lake were netted and stocked into the lake just up Mill lane, the one behind the Cockcrow pub. I can believe this as walking around it a few years ago on a hot day I saw some big carp cruising the shore lines.
it closed too all fishing, since the pub fence the area off the landowner decided that he was going to stop all fishing on the lakes and would prosecutions anyone who he caught fishing, the lakeside angling club have try to get a new lease of the guy but he not interested at all,
super-MAGuire
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Cant get anything legally more than a silly £1 fine permitted from old law and made to pay any damage done while tresspassing a.k.a nothing to a pond. Otherwise jack all can be done... but by the state of it... it wouldnt be worth trying to fish now. Wonder if he would be interested in selling the land, i suspect not though.
Yeah, at one time I think they were all ran by the same angling club, I thought it was big waters/ wideopen club but might be wrong. People still fish the cockcrow lake but don't know who's running it now, if you rang the cockcrow pub they might know. There's a good chance the local smack heads knock around there like.
he not intersted in selling the ponds, he wants to build houses on it but cant do owt cos there two pylons running across his land, so he just letting the pond go to rot, there still plenty of fish in the two ponds, lake 1 is just full of weed now and hard to find a clear spot to fish but walking around it on a sunny day there still loads of carp in it. Lake 2 is still clear and i know a few of the people still fishing it and still getting some good fish out
