News at Glehias

Originally a Yorkshire man, Bob Gillott now resides in Preston, Lancashire with his lovely young wife Janet. Here for the week, Bob has been fishing only two rods from the Dam Wall and at 3.20 pm on Tuesday the 18^th got a run from the sunken streambed in the middle of the lake, resulting in a cracking 33lb 12oz Mirror.

Whilst dealing with this one on the bank, Bob had a run on his other rod which was planted along the Gorse bank; this time a 30lb 4oz Common had picked up Bob’s home-made Trigga Ice boilie.

A superb result!! The two fish weights combined comes to spot on 64lb which smashes the ‘Men’s Lake Record Brace’ by just over 13lb.

Bob has had a total of 19 Carp so far including four at over 30lb and only two under 20lb, and he didn’t even fish two of the nights he has been here!

Great fishing Bob, keep em coming!!

Bob with a 30lb 4oz common, one of the brace.	The bigger of the brace at 33lb 12oz.

Fran “The Fish” Johnston, here for the week with her husband Barry from Fulham (the current holder of the Lake ‘OAP’ Record Mirror), has managed to bag not one…..not two….but three bottles of La Gléhias wine!!!!  

Having broken not only her PB twice in an hour, she also managed to break the standing ‘Ladies Lake Record Common’ record twice! Previously held by Wendy Calthorpe at 13lb10oz, Fran smashed that first by 5lbs, and then 5mins later smashed her own new record by a further 5lbs!!

Not only that, but the two ‘Common Beauties’ also gleaned the glamorous Grandma of fifteen the ‘Women’s Lake Record Brace’ at 41lb 8oz!!!

Incredibly, whilst dealing with the brace, Fran’s float rod tore off, but with a jump and a splash, the lump got away with hook, line and sinker!!

Never mind Fran, still good going by anyone’s standards!!!

Well done Fran!!

Colin (Cat-Man-Doo) Marsh of the Wilkinson Party has landed 3 large Catfish from our lake this week after expressing a desire to bank one of the elusive big ones when he first arrived here Saturday.

The first Cat came on a Tench live bait at 2 am on his first night here and weighed in at 45lb 8oz, the second Moggie picked up a Mainline boilie fished for a Carp the same morning at 11 am and came in at 48lb 8oz. We were fortunate enough to see Colin land the third Cat as we were delivering breakfasts to the anglers on Thursday morning when his left rod tore off.

The hard fighting 49lb 8oz Moggie decided to pick up a mainline boilie fished to the Gorse bank, this was on his only rod with a reel spooled up with 12lb breaking strain line, the other two have 15lb BS on them so it was a pleasure to watch him play it in so skillfully.

Another Catfish was hooked earlier in the week but was lost as Colin’s mainline broke under the strain; we suspect this one was bigger. Colin has now got the bit between his teeth and wants to see the biggest one in his net before the end of the week, we estimate it to be at least 60lb as the last time it was seen was around 2 years ago when it was landed at 53lb.

Great angling Colin, Keep it up!

45lb 8oz Cat	48lb 8oz Cat	49lb 8oz Cat

Gary Sawyer of Bivvy Power has won himself the newly invented 'Lake Record Piggy' award by netting the Lake record Pig at 12lb, the pig put up a brave fight (well in the net anyway) and was caught in the Gate corner at 10pm on Thursday the 8th of September, it was skillfully captured with no bait at all! Well done Gary.

I think this is one record which will be very long standing!!!

Ben Young and Gary Sawyer of 'Bivvy Power' are fishing here this week at La Gléhias with Gary’s mum and dad Al and Lynn. On Thursday evening I went down to the Lakes for a chat with Ben and Gary, about an hour later it was just getting dark when we saw what looked like a large white cat come in through the fishery gate and run along the dam wall bank which was about 80 meters from us.

Only when we stopped talking did we realise the large white cat was in fact pink and making a snorting noise! I immediately ran to the dam wall to investigate further and the baby pig turned and ran at me, at this point instinct cut in and I ran away from it wailing like a girl while Ben and Gary laughed rather a lot!

It was getting darker and darker as we planned a way to catch it and by now it had run to the Gorse bank on the far side of the lake. We had decided to catch it in a landing net, so I went the long way round the lake and scared it back towards Gary who was hiding in a bush near the gate with landing net to hand, as the piglet ran into the darkness towards the gate all I heard was Gary shout “PIGGY” at the top of his voice as he leapt out of the bush and snagged it in his landing net.

First pig ever netted on our fishery!!!

We managed to get the screaming maniac struggling piglet into an empty dustbin without harming it, put the dustbin in the back of the Land Rover and drove it back to the house and let it go in the goose house for the night. We gave it a while to calm down and then took it some water and cooked maize to see it through to the morning, within ten minutes it was munching through the maize and was completely mellow.

Funny thing, I only said to Al and Lynn two days earlier that I would love to have a pet pig. Unbelievable!!!