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Hello All

We have taken on some new members and would like to take this opportunity to say welcome to Fell View Lake, we wish you all a great season here and hope to see you on the bank soon.

David has manufactured 2 new pegs and they are off to the galvanisers today. Hopefully they will be back by the end of the week and we will be asking members for a hand to fit them soon after.

As you all know, the lilies have become a bit of a problem! although they make the lake look pretty and offer another feature it was noted that quite a few fish were lost when they made a dash for the cover of the lilies. Also the liles have become a nuicance growing in pegs threatening to take over the entire lake so we have decided that it is best practise to get rid of them. We have looked at all the different options and have decided that the most appropriate way to do this is to add a blue dye to the water which is harmless to the fish and causes the least disruption to the lake. The dye prevents light from penetrating the water which the lilies need to grow to the surface and will be added in spring and autumn so we will see what the outcome is and if it works as well as it is reported to work then we shall continue with this method.

Tight Lines

Janice

Ed caught a 14lb Carp and two Catfish 1 @ 16lb and 1 @19lb

Paul had a 14lb Cat 

Well done lads 

Eddie caught a 14lb 4oz Mirror and a 16lb  Mirror and lost a big fish when a knot parted.

Doddy had two Carp to 14lb 8oz

Charles broke his Catfish duck in fine style with a 21lb 4oz in the middle of the afternoon

Well done lads 

 

          

James came for a 2 night sessions and caught a Catfish 23lb 4oz, two Carp, a Tench and a 3lb Roach

 Well done James

Young Master Reader........has got his catfish career off in fine style by landing a 16lb 8oz and 19lb 8oz Catfish on Saturday night, his Dad who was in the next swim Blanked 

Well Done Young Un 

Ian Frankland Missed his first two runs but was happy when he banked a 16lb 8oz Catfish in the early hours of Sunday morning

Well done Ian 

Paul had 3 cats to 19lb

Warren banked 3 cats to 18lb and a Carp on his first visit to the lake.

3 of the carp anglers have been smashed when cats picked up thier boilies!!

Well done lads 

Ed caught the same catfish twice on consecutive nights at 16lb 8oz, the first time on tiger nut and the second on a  livebait. He also caught 2 Carp both were single figures.

Paul Cropper had an 18lb Catfish on Liver

David Knee had an 18lb 8oz Catfish on livebait.

 

Paul landed a third Catfish @19lb

Eddie also landed a Cat @ 13lb 8oz

Well done :)

Dave Kirby had a great day Friday on the pole with a net full of Roach

Paul landed a Catfish at 9:30pm on Friday evening @ 18lb 10oz on the float rod.

then at 4:30am Saturday had another @ 14lb 8oz

 Ed had one Carp at 17lb 8oz and one at 16lb

Harry had a 9lb 10oz Catfish

David Knee had a 8lb Mirror

Peter had a small Catfish

Well done lads 

Paul came and did a two night session and caught 3 Catfish

17lb 8oz

16lb

18lb 40z

well done Paul 

after a really windy night and not a bite ed caught a 7lb 8oz ghostie

nice fish ed, I will post the pic in the album soon 

Harry had a Catfish @ 17lb 10oz on livebait

Sorry for the delay with this report.

David Leece had a 8lb Catfish on boilie

Harry had 2 Carp and reports an excellent days fishing on the feeder, culminating in a net full of prime Roach, Crucian and Bream.

Ed is spending some free time at the lake this week, so far he has caught:

Catfish 18lb 12oz

Carp 17lb 8oz

and a Fancy Tail Crucian/Goldfish thingy

Well done ED

ps: see the album for photo's

Craig had a Linear Carp at 15lb +

Harry had a Ghostie and a Mirror and landed his first Catfish at 12lb 4oz

Ed had a 15lb + Carp and landed a 12lb Catfish on Monday morning, he also lost 2 Cats and 1 Carp when the hooks pulled

Kevs mate Geoff had two Cats , 1 at 23lb and 1 at 12lb

Kevin caught a Catfish  at 18lb 8oz

Ed had a 12lb Common

Geoff had a 14lb Carp

Ed landed a Catfish of 19lb 8oz and a Mirror Carp of 19lb 4oz

Anthony landed a 15lb Mirror Carp

Rick had a 14lb Carp

Kevin had a 15lb Catfish

well done lads :)

DaveH came for a quick overnighter and landed a Catfish to 18lb 8oz

well done Dave :)

Ed Landed a Catfish to 16lb 8oz :)

Pete landed 2 Mirrors 1 at 14lb 8oz and 1 at 11lb 6oz :)

David H landed a Catfish to 23lb 9oz :)

Craig had two Carp to 15lb 8oz

Ed had six Carp to 14lb and caught a few good Bream to 5lb all on Boilies

Tom had a small Catfish to 3lb

Peter caught a Carp to 15lb 8oz

Pete Caught a 3lb + Ide amongst a mixed bag during the day

Well done lads

Friday 9th May

During the early hours

David H banked a 20lb 8oz Catfish  on squid

Tony had a 14lb 6oz Catfish on Gudgeon live bait

Monday 5th May

Ed had 3 fish in the night, 1 tench and 2 Carp to 14lb 8oz and his son had a 17lb 80z Carp and a Catfish just over 20lb
4th May 2008 updated

Pole Anglers Roy and Bill, reported an excellent days fishing with crucians to 2lb and ide to 1lb 8oz amongst a net full of roach and skimmers.

Sorry about the delay keeping the info up to date here ^^ I have had problems with the site for a while so I will start off with the latest catches here. If I for got to mention you here please email me with information of your fish, weight etc.

This weekend (Bank Holiday)

David Lees had an 11lb Catfish.......lost one big Cat at the net and caught and 8lb Carp and a 4lb Bream

Ian Dykes had a Catfish to 19lb 14oz

Paul had a ghostie to 4lb

well done lads :)

January 2008    

Happy New Year to all of you :)

We did see a few anglers over the Christmas period..........brave souls!...........a few runs but nothing on the bank so far!

Existing members fees are due in by the end of January........If you have not been in touch by this time I will presume that you will not be joining for 2008 and I will allocate that place to a new member. If you know you will not be rejoining please return your key as soon as possible.

We look forward to seeing you on the bank this year and wish you a successful season :)

November 2007                                                      

Hello folks  Nothing to report as far as the fishing goes seeing as the syndicate is made up of fair weather anglers lol.

The decision to remove the pier has met with a unanimous approval albeit some sad to see a favourite peg lost from the end of it! but it now means that the pads can be fished from other pegs instead of the one peg dominating that stretch of the lake and has also created another island feature.

Andy is still in the lead for the largest Carp out this year to 24lb + and looks set to win the free membership place for 2008, unless of course somebody takes a brave pill and dones their thermals to put some time in before the New Year.

With regards to the catfish season, IanW finally came out on top with his epic battle against DavidH in terms of the number of fish caught!

Ian caught 16 Cats in total to David H's 11 Cats but hats off to both of them for having a great season. In total 53 Cats were caught throughout the year with twelve of them weighing over 20Lb.

In all we are pleased with the overall results from the Carp anglers who have put time and effort into their sport resulting in some excellent fish on the bank as you would all agree that Fell View is not a runs water.

David and I would like to express our thanks to all our members for a great season and some fab socials and we hope to see you next year (if you dont make it before then lol).

 

 

 

October/November

Nothing to report for the last two months as the cold weather set in and it would appear that all our members prefer the warmer weather, although a few have threatened to brave it. So far nobody has.

Janice

Matt has had consistent sport with his pursuit for the catfish and is averaging 1 Cat per visit.

the average size being 15-17lb.

Matt has also had a few good Carp to 15 1/2lb on his Cat baits.

Kevin had a few good Carp out to 16lb 9oz.

Hagz had a good weekend session having seven takes off Carp and landing four to 16lb.

Jayne saw a previously unknown Koi Carp cruising one afternoon and estimated it's weight at around 15-17lb.

Dave Kirby had some good float fishing sport and saw one of the big Carp which he estimated at 26-28lb shouldering constantly beneath one of the willow trees.

Arthur Slater landed one of the Ghost Carp as did Kev.

Roy and Bill had an excellent days pole fishing landing over 80lb of fish between them, the best being a tench of 3lb caught on small pellets.

Check back here at the end of october

Thats all for now

Janice

The reedbed as you all know has been the topic of many conversations from the Carp anglers point of view.

This weekend we decided to take drastic action and have removed almost all of it, by next spring there should be a new growth and will be easier to maintain in future years.

This has also opened up new area's to fish from, so we hope you like it.

We do ask that you do not use it though until next spring as we have layed grass seed and the ground needs to settle.

See you all soon

Janice

The last weekend

Shaun came for a two day session and managed three Carp ( 2 good doubles) The bad news is that he lost a large Carp and a Large Cat both smashing him up, to say he was gutted was an understatement as he reckoned that the lost Carp would have been his personal best from Fell View.

He also got a bonus 2lb Crucian.

Roy and Bill adopted pole tactics and Roy landed approximately 15lb of bream on pellet and Bill landing 12.lb of mainly Roach.

That's all for this month folks

GONE FISHING

Janice

28th July

Update for this month

Pete Caught 2 Carp on an overnighter 27th July at 12lb and 13lb

David Knee Caught a 14lb Carp also 27th

Matt had a Carp on Roach Deadbait and 1 Cat weighing in at 15lb

Last weekend Kev caught a double figure Cat and David also caught a double figure Cat.

Coarse Anglers have been catching plenty of Silver Fish with plenty of nice sized Roach

July so Far

David Knee came to target the Cats and while catching live bait he managed two 2lb Roach and a good sized bream........................................Thankfully he did not use these as live bait.

The Cat fishing has been diffucult so far this month with Matt putting in the most hours to date and has not managed to convert the few runs he has had into fish on the bank.

The Carp fishing has also proved to be difficult with the best of the month being a 15lber but lots of Carp are visible cruising on the surface. Most of them appear to be staying in the confines of the reeds in the shallows.

David and I did a night session last night for the Cats (18th July) Thanks to Dave Kirby for catching our live baits as David could'nt be bothered. At midnight we had a screeming run on a Roach which when hooked it took off like a steam train and was unstoppable, before snapping off. A 1:00am we had another take but missed it and yet another take at 4:30am which resulted in a very hard fighting 13 1/2 lb Cat....................................David's 1st of the month despite putting numerous hours in!!

Once again the Silver fish are being caught in abundance........................last week David had a 4lb Bream while catching live bait.

Also last week we found a huge Roach dead in the margins which we estimate was around the 3lb mark, this was obviously an old fish but it just goes to show that there some suprises to be caught.

Sorry for not updating this sooner but I have lost the notes and don't have specific details but as a generalisation lots of silverfish were caught mainly by Cat anglers catching live bait.

Plenty of Cats were caught as they went on a feeding rampage for most of the month, with many anglers being succesfull almost all of the Cats came out to live baits.

Matt had 2 Cats on consecutive nights at the end of the month, 1 being an ounce short of a 20lber and the other was 21lb + so close to a brace of 20's ........................a feat rarely achieved in the North West.

Eric Rose and Martin were succesful and caught quite a few Cats.

Keith and Shaun caught 2 Cats each, both of Shaun's being 20lb +.

David caught 2 Cats within half an hour of dark from the end of the pier and then ran out of live bait, so he improvised and collected a bunch of worms from the compost heap, put 17 worms on one hook and half an hour later caught a 14lb 12oz Mirror Carp.

Appologies to the other anglers who caught who I may not have mentioned.

May 17th update

So far May has proved fruitful for both the Carp and the Catfish.

Eric and Rose landing 20lb + Catfish as well as numerous smaller ones.

Shaun caught 2 Cats, 1 at 22lb +

Daniel did an overnight session caught 3 carp and lost 2

Geoff caught 3 Cats on his first overnight session up to 21lb and caught more Cats and Carp on his second night

Pete came for 1 overnight session and landed a small cat on pellet during the day

Carl caught 5 Carp over his session mostly doubles on Halibut pellets

 

The last week of April.

Jane caught a 23lb Cat on saturday night on live bait ..................................That makes her the lake record holder so far  Well done Jane

Rose, Eric and Martin Porter arrived to target the Cats and managed to get two, 1 at 20lb and 1 at 12lb.

they returned two days later and caught 2 more, 1 at 14 and a half pound and 1 around 10lb.

Roy and Pete made a visit and caught 25lb of silver fish between them on the pole on Sunday.

Dave Lappine and his mate fished on sunday night, Dave caught a decent Cat and his mate managed a Carp in the shallows.

Shaun caught 2 Cats on Monday night 1 @ 22lb 130z and the other one weighing in at 9lb, both were caught on livebait.

So far 4 x 20lb Cats have seen the banks in the last 3 weeks

The Tench are now feeding and also plenty of Bream

Not many of the Carp are feeding as yet but most of the Carp anglers have been targeting the Cats instead and have been chuffed with the results.

Thanks for all the photo's so far and please keep sending them, our email address is: fellview@fellviewlake.com

See you all soon

Tight Lines

Janice

23rd April

Brett came to do an overnighter  targeting the Cats. at 11.30pm he had a run on livebait and missed it but at 12.00am he had another run and managed to land a nice moggie at 11lb 8oz, he was pleased for this was his first English Cat.

22nd April

David and myself did an overnight session, missing a run at 2am but managed to connect with the next run at 4am resulting in a 21lb 4oz Cat.

David was well chuffed as this is his heaviest English Cat to date.

17th April

Carl, Kevin and Shaun fished for the weekend and all caught Carp the largest falling to Carl at 15lb one of the trio he landed.

Kevin and Shaun caught one Carp each and Shaun landed two Catfish at 20lb 4oz and 9lb, he also missed a screaming run in the early hours of Monday morning on gudgeon live bait.

Thursday 6th April

Stewart and Phil decided to come and have a bit of an afternoon session after watching the weather reports which promised a dry day...............needless to say the weathermen got it wrong, the temperature dropped.......................the wind picked up and the rain set in yet again.

Albeit Stewart managed to catch a 9lb 2oz Mirror on the most unusual bait set up !!

 

Phil Managed an 8lb Mirror on the 26th March

Mathew came for an afternoon session and managed a net full of small Roach.

Shaun and Keith did a night session on Saturday and woke up to 4 inches of snow, needless to say the Carp were not feeding.

The lake saw a couple of brave souls trying for the Carp.........despite the freezing temperatures! Hagz managed a low double on his first visit and  Mark H landed 2 doubles to just over 15lb.

Exiting news for the members wanting to catch Catfish!

We have just stocked a further 8 Catfish, with 4 being 20-25lb and 4 being between 8-10lb, this takes the Catfish stock up to 19.

This should make fishing for them a viable proposition to all members, it should also help to control the vast number of Gudgeon.

If you are fishing for Cats please ensure that you are using a strong, abrasive resistant braid, to avoid being bitten off. Catfish have very abrasive pads in thier mouths and will make short work of light lines. If in doubt please ask David for advice.

We took some photographs of the Cats being introduced to the lake see them in the photo album.

There are also some photo's of the new members area, hope you like it!

Tight Lines

Janice 

We have a limited number of syndicate places available

fellview@fellviewlake.com

Tight Lines

Janice

Happy new year to everybody.

We are kicking off the new year with the addition of 4 Catfish on Monday 30th, the Cats weigh in at 20-25lb each.

This brings our total number of Cats to 16.

We are also in the process of sourcing a meeting room for our members, we may have it sorted out by early Feb, check this page for updates

There is a list of people waiting to join the syndicate, if you do not wish to renew your membership please let me know ASAP.

 

Hi,

sorry for the delay in the update! things have been a bit hectic.

Three Catfish were caught in July up to 14lbs, all 3 were caught during the night.

Lots of Carp have been caught but none of the bigger fish have shown

david has had 37 Carp during August, 14 of them being caught on the surface on crust and dog biscuits. The other 23 succumbed to large Halibut pellets, cast to the islands.

David also had one Catfish on Halibut pellet and lost a big Catfish after a ten minute fight when it bit through his braid

Lots of Tench and Crucian's have been showing and some very large Roach have been caught.

Hope You enjoy the new photographs

Bye for now

Janice

 

The end of May

By the end of the month members James Forshaw and Gary Newman caught 10 Carp between them over a 24 hour period to 15 1/4 1lb, the majority caught throughout the afternoon in the shallows. Gary also caught a 13llb Catfish during the same week in the early hours.

Janice caught a 12llb Catfish on David's rods when he went to answer the call of nature.

Day anglers have been enjoying good sport with Tench, Bream, Roach and Perch.

Arthur Slater enjoyed some excellent Roach catches whilst fishing for Carp.

Roach to 2llb are being caught by Carp anglers.

The few anglers trying for the Cats have been catching large Perch up to 3llb on live baits.

David had a couple of double figure Carp on floating crust.

Derek has enjoyed consistent sport concluding with 3 Carp on his last visit and two fish lost when they reached the sanctuary of the reed bed, he also hooked and played a large Cat for over 20 minutes then lost it when he bent down to pick up his landing net, to add to his misery the same thing happened with a very large Perch the following morning. 

Update 7th May

The Crucians and Tench are showing well now and overall there seems to have been a lot of activity around the lake, it has been noticed that fry are jumping out of the water all over the place!

David caught 2 of the elusive Catfish at 9lb 80z and 10lb ( come on lads the gauntlet is down for the Catfish.............can you beat David!)

Janice had a nice Mirror on her secret paste recipe

Derek missed a couple of screaming runs on live bait during the night

James Forshaw caught a 10lb 80z Mirror

On Friday Morning Gary Newman caught 2 Carp one of which was a good double also caught lots of Tench on the feeder

last weekend both Dave Gannon and Jim Hind had a net full of Silver fish on the pole.

 

 

David had some quality Roach on luncheon meat intended for carp 1 week ago to 2lb 1oz

Wayne Hallsall caught some nice Perch to 2llbs and some good Bream on Hilibut pellets

Gary Newman caught some quality Perch perch to 1lb 120z on worm

Roy Kendrick caught a 16lb 2oz mirror on Thursday 21st  at 2am from the Pier point see the webs album.

Apparently there have been carp caught during the day recently but we have no info at the moment, please keep me posted so that we can keep this site up to date, thanks

Friday 25th

Rob still holds this years record so far with a 16lb 8oz carp on a ledger out to the island on Boilies.

David caught a 16lb mirror carp at 10.00pm from the end of the pier on float fished luncheon meat fishing 2ft depth in the margin.

Sunday 20th

The rising temperatures have seen a lot more fish movement towards the shallows.

Derek had 2 mirrors on Friday night 1 double and a single

Rob had 4 carp on Saturday night the two biggest both in the sixteen pound bracket.

As yet there seems to be little movement amongst the smaller species........................Update:.....by this evening David Gannon had a good day with a mixed bag of  Roach, Ide, Skimmers, Perch and Gudgeon

 Arthur Fowler and Grandaughters also caught some Roach and Perch

5th March

After a marathon month the syndicate is now full, any further applications will be placed on a waiting list.

We have seen some of our new members already who were keen to see what they could catch, so far  8lb mirrors and leathers have been caught..........4 in total, freezing temperatures are likely to be the reason for the lack of feeding, so hopefully when the water warms up we should see the bigger fish coming out.......................please keep me posted