Town Parks Fishery Catch Report w/e 16/3

Plenty of action was reported on both lakes at Town Parks Fishery this week.

The Specimen Lake produced great sport with the Catfish and Carp on the feed. Several Cats came to the bank with fish to 23lbs 4oz taking various baits.

Matt Conway banked two Cats of 23lbs 4oz and 16lbs 8oz and a Mirror Carp of 18lbs 5oz.

Zig rigs with Cell boilies proved irresistible.

Phil Byng had another successful session taking his second Cat of the season at 21lbs 7oz.

Local rod Phil Byng banked his second Catfish of his season form peg 9 at Town Parks Fishery. A cell boilie fished mid water tempted the fish which was 20lbs 7oz!

Dave Grylls also had a good trip to peg 2 taking 5 Carp to 20lbs 7oz from the island on enigma boilies.

Town Parks Fishery regular Dave Grylls banked five fish from peg 2 at Town Parks Fishery including this fine Linear Carp! Enigma boilies tempted the fish from the island.

Matty Feakes continued to net fish taking 5 good doubles to 17lbs 1oz from peg 5.

This nice Common was taken from peg 12 at Town Parks Fishery by Matt Feakes and was one of five fish taken in the session!

Matt Feakes banked this Mirror Carp from peg 12 at Town Parks Fishery. The fish fell to a Cell boilie offered in the margins.

Town Parks Fishery Matt Feakes had a great session form peg 12 banking 5 fish including this lovely Mirror.

Catch of the week was undoubtedly by Mike Lock. Lock fished peg 12 for Silvers but connected with something much bigger. Fishing a light rod with 2lbs 2oz line and a size 20 hook Lock had to battle for over 40 minutes to bring the fish to the net. When weighed the fish, a lovely scaled Mirror Carp tipped the scales at 17lbs 3oz!! That fish topped off a great day as Lock also took 50lbs of Skimmers!

Light gear capture of the week at Town Parks Fishery was undoubtedly Mike Locks 17lbs 3oz Mirror taken from peg 11. Lock was fishing for Skimmers with 2lbs 2oz line and a size 20 hook when the fish seized his bait. After a 40 minute battle Lock had the fish in the net!!

The top Match Lake also saw the anglers enjoying good sport.

Conor Nettleton took 42 Carp during an afternoon and evening session. Nettleton fished from peg 17 flicking floating pellet towards the main island. Despite heavy cloud and a cutting North Easterly wind blowing across the swim the Carp responded by quickly taking the floaters with some fish clearing the water in the rush to feed. The fishing resembled Summer surface fishing and was quite out of place in the weather conditions.

Most anglers fishing for Carp were rewarded with fish although they fed at different depths depending on the weather conditions.

Medium to large bags of Silvers have been reported from various pegs with the fish continuing to take maggot and castor.

Bream have also provided great sport taking pellet and castor from the deeper water pegs!

Students from Exmouth College continued to improve their fishing skills with some taking Carp to the 6lbs mark during tutored sessions.