Court Farm Fishing Lakes

No match today so I'm off for a pleasure fishing session


I decided to go to Court Farm today Unfortunately if you tell anyone you are going to Court Farm the response is usually unprintable and contains a lot of sighs and groans


Alough it's true that it's too easy to catch fish at Court Farm (to be honest if you fell in you would come out with 100lb in each pocket)and also out of the 1000's of fish in each lake it would be impossible to make 1 good Carp mouth out of the lot

But I love the place

The Carp will take anything you put on a hook and you will get your elastic stretched all day long every put in from any peg

What more could you ask for?

£6 well spent in my opinion only draw back is you have to get there early as the place fills up quick

Well today I chose to fish Lake 1

Lake 1 is stuffed full of small Carp from 2lb - 8lb and has Roach up to 3lb Lake 2 has Carp up to 15lb and Lake 3 has Carp up to 30lb but if you want non stop action then it's Lake 1 you want

I chose a swim down towards the narrow end of the lake opposite the high bank

As you can see it is a very mature lake and nice and sheltered fishing under the trees

Plan today is just to fish soft hooker pellet and feed 4mm sinking feed pellets

I'm going to fish 2 lines 1 at 3m just using the top2 and another at 7m

The depth in this lake is about the same all over which is about 30 inches

As I've still got the Lerc in my holdall from the last visit to Rolfs I'll stick with that but will have to use 0.18 rigs as the 0.14's I usually use down here will be a bit weak for the red hydro

Alough the 2lb Carp down here are great fun on black hydro they still manage to rip red out of the top2

Most people that fish these lakes fish floating crust and sit in deck chairs and in summer it's hard to get a bait into the lake through the cruising Carp even today the Carp are still up on the surface and taking bread

As usual I ship out 2 pots of pellets to 7m and a few handfuls in at 3m and go out with a 6mm soft hooker at 7m a few dips and the float buries and a 2lb carp is on its way to the net

And that the way it goes all day with 1 Carp after another from 1lb up to about 5lb

Every now and again a Roach was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and beat the Carp to the bait

And a net full of them would make a good days fishing

After a break for coffee and a bite to eat at lunchtime I switched to the top2 line

With the same result

A super day with nice weather and a fish a chuck all day well worth a visit if you need a bagging session with no pressure