Court Farm Fishing Lakes

No match today so I am off to Court farm to make up for the last 3 nightmare matches I have had at Rolfs as no matter what the weather or conditions the fish at Court farm are always pleased to see you

Today I am going to fish lake 1 which is the top lake in the site picture and as when I arrived I was the only 1 in the car park I decided that it wasn't going to be too busy today so I settled down in 1 of the large double swims at the large end of the lake

The lake is usually packed so I usually go for 1 of the single swims on the opposite side of the lake or the smaller swims down at the narrow end of the lake otherwise you end up having to share the swim or listen to the winging etc

It doesn't make a lot of difference which peg you fish really as you can get a fish a chuck from any of them but the bank on the other side is steeper and can be awkward for shipping the pole back and the double swims allow you to spread out a bit

Forecast today is for sunny spells and scattered showers so I set the brolly up at the start to save hassle later on

Plan of attack today is going to be fishing 6mm pellet at 11.5m on the deck feeding 4mm sinking pellet straight out in front

I just set up 2 rigs both on Silstar Match 0.14mm line straight through to a size 16 B911 hook and for floats I used Maver Ice pellet floats 1 with a yellow tip which I set to fish an inch over depth and the other with a red tip I set to fish 2 inches off bottom both on purple hydro

The lake is carrying a bit of extra water at the moment so the depth is just over 33 inches and still has some nice colour in it

To start I ship a large pot of pellets out to 11.5m and put a 6mm Natural GOT soft hooker on the over depth rig and ship it out over the top of the feed pellets

by now the feed pellets are starting to fizz and within 60 secs my float lifts then slides under and the hydro is flying out and after a brief but refreshing battle I slide the net under a nice common of about 2lb

And for the next couple of hours I had a constant stream of commons and the odd hard fighting mirror

Most of them were around the 2lb mark with a couple nudging 4lb and every now and again a Roach would beat the Carp to the bait

And even they are big enough now to pull your hydro out

Once the bites slowed down a bit I swapped over to the shallower rig as now the sun was out and it was dead flat calm so moving up in the water brought me back into contact with the fish

And as it was so calm I shortened the line to the float down to about 3 inches to make it easier to hit the bites as now I'm up in the water the bites are far quicker

I also swapped over to the new GOT Green lipped muscle 6mm soft hooker pellets I was lucky enough to get to try from the nice guys at GOT Baits

And the fish seemed to like the new pellets just as much as the old Naturals

The fish I was catching now seemed to be a bit chunkier than the ones I caught on the deck but tbh I can't say whether the pellets produced a better stamp of fish or moving up in the water had the effect but I wasn't complaining

One thing is for sure with the new range of pellets they are certainly made to a better texture and hang on the hook better than jelly pellets and they are of a more uniform size

I continued to catch fish right through the rest of the afternoon and even though its still classed a winter the Carp put up a good fight right the way to net

By about 4pm it looked like it was going to rain so I decided to pack up and get the gear away before it got wet

I really enjoyed my day down at Court farm I'm fully refreshed and ready for the next challenge at Rolfs