{"id":4789,"date":"2011-02-17T05:55:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T04:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=4789"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:59:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:59:49","slug":"swim-works-at-old-oaks-carp-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/swim-works-at-old-oaks-carp-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Swim works at Old Oaks carp lake"},"content":{"rendered":" The pegs before\n<p>Between winter and summer the water level at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/venue\/old-oaks\" class=\"kblinker\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More about Old Oaks &raquo;\">Old Oaks<\/a> goes up and down. This natural phenomenon has eroded a couple of the pegs, as mentionned by some anglers in their feedback.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have just finished the work to repair them all. We first added first plenty of big stones to stabilize the bottom and then we covered it with a sandy\/gravel top soil. Now they are all flat and safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4791\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4791\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4791\" alt=\"Carp fishing at Old Oaks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/02\/large_Old_Oaks_Pegs_after-150x100.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/02\/large_Old_Oaks_Pegs_after-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/02\/large_Old_Oaks_Pegs_after-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/02\/large_Old_Oaks_Pegs_after.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&amp; after the work!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;d suggest anglers use banksticks, but switch to a rod pod from July when the ground will get hard as it&#8217;s baked by the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Tight lines, Mehdi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between winter and summer the water level at Old Oaks goes up and down. This natural phenomenon has eroded a couple of the pegs, as mentionned by some anglers in their feedback. &nbsp; We have just finished the work to repair them all. We first added first plenty of big stones to stabilize the bottom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,634],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carp-fishing-news","category-old-oaks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30048,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions\/30048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}