Getting the Best out of our Lakes
I'm not being smug here or clever-clever or better than anybody else but it's just that I spend a lot of time on our waters and I do see certain things that a lot of visitors are doing that are, perhaps, not quite right. A few days ago, I wrote a piece about coping with weed and it's possibly a good idea at the start of the school holidays, just to look at some of the other issues that can be forgotten. And remember that whatever I say about Kingfishers, can generally be taken as applicable to other lakes around the country.
I've said it frequently: too many anglers fish with not enough bait. The fish stocks in Lily and Lobster lakes particularly are very high and if you only put in just a few cupfuls of bait then you just won't hold the fish. This is why we are starting to introduce bags of rolled wheat for sale. We feed rolled wheat in big quantities so the fish know it's an attractive food source and we'll be selling it pretty cheaply. Simply mix it up wet, compress it into hard balls and throw it in. the tench and the carp absolutely love it and the bream are getting switched on as well. You can often use a fairly dry piece of the mix as a hook beat, too.
I can't stress enough that it pays to walk round whatever lake you're thinking of fishing before actually putting down your gear. A lot of anglers simply come to the first available swim and th...
