Sep 2012

Roz Reaches for Rods Resulting in Ruptured Records!!!, 19th Sep

Nottingham based Macmillan Nurse Roz Bexon, here for the week with hubby Neil and son Chris, managed to bust not one but two La Gléhias Ladies Lake Records!!

At around 23:30 Monday evening, Roz’s middle rod ripped off from the shallow end of the Gorse Bank where it meets the reeds and landed herself her first record breaking fish of the week; the gorgeous 30lb 8oz Common was taken on a T1 with Peach & Pepper pop-up snowman rig.

The second record breaker came midday the following afternoon from a hollow in the bushes midway along the Gorse bank; this time a pretty Mirror coming in at 36lb, again on a T1 but this time tipped with a bit of plastic corn.

Roz’s husband Neil has had 15 fish to 35lb this week and son Chris has had a whopping 143lb of catfish and carp up to 31lb+ this week too!

Well done Roz!

Aug 2012

Wendy does it Again!!!, 12th Aug

Having briefly held the title of Ladies Lake Record Common last year, the lovely Nurse and mother of four, Wendy Calthorpe was back to bag some bubbly - well white wine anyway! Here for the week with hubby Steve and daughters Danni and Shana, and sons Ryan and the adorable Harvey, the family from Tunbridge-Wells arrived Saturday 11th but decided not to get their rods wet until the Sunday morning when Wendy winkled out not one but two Grassies about an hour apart, kick starting the Ladies Grass Carp Record.

The first Grassie to come out, a 16lb’er came in at 11:30 and the second, a 12lb’er was seen bankside around 12:30; both captures came on the same rod and both times it was Quest Baits Rahja Spice that got the job done.

Even with family days out and inclement weather, the Calthorpes have banked 22 fish to 34lb 8oz including one of our baby Catfish caught by Ryan at 10lb, and Wendy and Ryan both have new PB's of 29lb!

Well done Wendy! It’s been a pleasure having you and the family here this week, enjoy the wine!

Jul 2012

Will Winkles Out a Whopper!!!, 28th Jul

16 year old Will Waterton of QES, here for the week with his family - dad Mark, mum Claire and sister Nina from Lancaster - managed to bag himself a rather large Catfish this morning. Large enough to break the current ‘Juniors Lake Record Catfish’ at least!!

Will hooked into the monster moggy weighing 27lb 1oz under the overhanging foliage in the deeper end of the Gorse bank at 4:40am on Friday 27th July; a Quest Bait’s LiverB8 boilie tipped with a white pop-up was just too tempting for the big Cat!!

Just 5 minutes after the record breaking Catfish run, Dad Mark’s rod also tore off which resulted in him landing a nice 26lb15oz Mirror, this time taken on a Quest LiverB8 boilie but tipped with a pink pop-up. So far this week Will is beating his dad 6 to 5 on the number of fish caught and is also beating him by a few pounds in the heaviest fish caught - a lovely 35lb 8oz Mirror.

Well done Will, you showed the big boys how it's done!!!