Anglers Paradise

Arriving at Anglers Paradise on Saturday lunch time was like being greeted at a friends house everyone seemed to remember us from our previous visits.

We all had a quick drink with Zyggy and then unloaded the bus and headed straight for the lakes, as Julz had been doing some pole fishing recently she wanted to catch more big fish on the pole so we chose to fish beginers carp lake for a couple of hours, where sure enough Julz managed a couple of lovely carp both of which broke her previous pole PB.

5lb 2oz was the smaller of the two fish but the prettier

On the Sunday we fished some of the smaller lakes catching some wonderfully colourful fish, including a 3lb koi carp, golden rudd of 2oz and Koi orfe of 4oz

That night we were joined by Nick and Amber at the BBQ which Rosie was working at and afterwards we all went to the bar for a drink and met up with Tinca Steve (Nice to meet you and your family) before a reasonably early night

On the Tuesday we met up with Nick and Rosie to fish Easy Access lake, the whole complex has been fishing hard this summer due to the ever changing weather conditions and today was no exception, with wind rain and sunshine at various points of the day, Nick landed a lovely carp that didn’t quite make double figures at 9lb 14oz

Then Rosie caught a fish on feeder which led her a merry dance diving into the reeds, but Rosie waited and waited and after a bit of assistance from me poking around the weeds with a landing net and from Nick the fish came out and graced the bank at 10lb 11oz you played it so well Rosie I’m sure most anglers would have given up and lost the fish.

The weather in the latter part of the week got windier and wetter but we were still catching a few fish, Michael and I spent a day wondering round dipping into various lakes with feeder rods and Michael managed to land his own double on feeder from a lake not renound for big fish.

The last full day of fishing was spent on the main carp lake looking for bigger carp and cats, there was only one run all day and that resulted in a new personal best for Julz of 16lb 2oz

All in all a great week despite the up and down weather, it was great to spend a day fishing with Rosie and Nick as well, hopefully we will be down there again soon