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Fishing Lake in Cheshire

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Find out where to fish – ALWAYS BEST TO GIVE THEM A RING – search for the best places to fish near you, local fishing spots, using our fishing lakes directory.In addition, learn more about species that can be caught in these waters as well as places to buy fishing tackle, licenses, equipment etc. from our friendly experts listed here.

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Bay Malton Angling Club, Waybutt Lane, Crewe, CW2 5QA
Tel. 01270 820812

Cheshire Fishing, Beehive Farm Carrs Lane, Chester, CH3 9NT
Tel. 01829 770041

Four Oaks Fishery, Four Oak Farm Powey Lane, Chester, CH1 6LH
Tel. 01244 881945

Hampton Springs Fishery, Hampton Springs Shay Lane, Malpas, SY14 8AD
Tel. 01948 820789

Holmston Hall Fishery, Holmston Hall Oulton Lowe, Little Budworth, Tarporley, CW6 9AY
Tel. 01829 760366

Lloyds Meadow Fisheries, Delamere Rd, Chester, CH3 8BD
Tel. 01928 740710

SonicBOOM Angling Baits, Crewe Indoor Market, Market Hall, Earle St, Crewe, CW1 2BL, Cheshire
Tel. 07900 046271

Fishing Lake Cheshire

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Covering the following areas in Cheshire: Billericay, Bishop’s Stortford, Braintree, Brentwood, Burnham-On-Crouch, Chelmsford, Dunmow, Epping, Harlow, Ingatestone, Maldon, Ongar, Sawbridgeworth, Southminster, Stansted, Witham

This page is part of our Fishing Lake Directory for Cheshire. If you weren’t looking for Fishing Lake in Cheshire please use the search at the bottom of the page.

Fishing Lake Reviews in Cheshire

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Fishing Lake in Cheshire

You will find short extracts from Amazing Fishing Stories on each of our directory pages. There is a link to buy the book on our book page.

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Finally, though, everyone on board saw the big swivel, which joined the monofilament to the wire trace, appear out of the water for the first time, the remains of the burst balloon having slid down the line and clung to it.
Ray ducked into the cockpit and come out with a weapon that was only in there for a joke. He had kept a flying gaff, a huge steel hook attached to a length of 3-inch rope, down there for years, telling different erroneous stories about its uses to anyone who would listen.
Rick eyed up the monstrosity. ‘I never thought you were serious a

‘Now, that’s a fish, John,’ Gendall whispered, and pointed midstream.
It took John a moment to pick out the trout and then his jaw dropped. ‘Bloody hell, it must be 5, 6 pounds?’
‘Eight, I’d say; he’s a good 5 feet down, don’t forget.’
Despite the size of the fish and the water depth, John reckoned he might come to the dry, so he tried first a Royal wolf and then a blue blow fly. Not a flicker of interest to the wolf, but the trout did come and look at the blow fly. John’s heart missed a couple of beats as it rose through the water, but then it turned a

You can’t catch fish unless your line is in the water. However uninspiring the conditions may be, it’s always worth having a go. You never know, you might even become responsible for naming a new pool.
ome salmon pools bear the surnames of personalities who fished them in the past, while others relate to terrestrial features: Black
Rock, Bridge, Farm and the like. The discovery of a new pool is very rare, even after major flood events. The topography of existing pools may change dramatically when the river is in particularly heavy spate, but seldom does su



Full List of areas covered on our Cheshire Fishing Lake Directory:

Acton, Acton Bridge, Adlington, Alderley Edge, Aldersey Green, Aldford, Allgreave, Alpraham, Alsager, Alvanley, Anderton, Antrobus, Appleton Thorn, Arclid, Arley, Ashley, Ashton, Astbury, Aston, Aston juxta Mondrum, Audlem, Backford, Badgerbank, Barnton, Barthomley, Barton, Bate Heath, Beambridge, Beeston, Bickerton, Bickley Moss, Bickley Town, Birch Heath, Blackden Heath, Blacon, Blakenhall, Bollington, Bosley, Bostock Green, Bradfield Green, Bradwall Green, Brereton Green, Brereton Heath, Bridge Trafford, Bridgemere, Broken Cross, Brookhouse Green, Broomedge, Brownlow Heath, Broxton, Bruera, Buerton, Bulkeley, Bunbury, Burland, Burleydam, Burntcliff Top, Burton, Burtonwood, Burwardsley, Butt Green, Byley, Calveley, Capenhurst, Cat and Fiddle Inn, Checkley, Chelford, Chester, Childer Thornton, Chorley, Chorlton, Chorlton Lane, Chowley, Christleton, Church Lawton, Church Minshull, Churton, Clotton, Clutton, Coddington, Collins Green, Comberbach, Congleton, Coppenhall Moss, Cotebrook, Coxbank, Cranage, Crewe, Croft, Crowton, Croxton Green, Cuckoo’s Nest, Cuddington, Cuddington Heath, Culcheth, Daresbury, Davenham, Dean Row, Delamere, Disley, Ditton, Dodleston, Duckington, Duddon, Dunham-on-the-Hill, Dutton, Eaton, Eaton Hall, Eccleston, Egerton Green, Ellesmere Port, Elton, Elworth, Englesea-brook, Faddiley, Farndon, Farnworth, Fearnhead, Fourlanes End, Foxwist Green, Frodsham, Fuller’s Moor, Gallantry Bank, Gatesheath, Gawsworth, Glazebury, Gleadsmoss, Goostrey, Grappenhall, Great Barrow, Great Budworth, Great Sankey, Great Sutton, Guilden Sutton, Hale Bank, Halton, Hampton Heath, Handbridge, Handforth, Handley, Hankelow, Hapsford, Hargrave, Hartford, Harthill, Haslington, Hassall, Hassall Green, Hatchmere, Hatherton, Hatton, Hatton Heath, Haughton Moss, Heatley, Hebden Green, Helsby, Henbury, High Legh, Higher Walton, Higher Whitley, Highlane, Hightown, Hollins Green, Holmes Chapel, Hoole, Hooton, Horton Green, Hough, Hough Green, Hulme Walfield, Hurdsfield, Huxley, Ince, Jodrell Bank, Keckwick, Kelsall, Kerridge, Kettleshulme, Key Green, Kingsley, Knolls Green, Knutsford, Lach Dennis, Langley, Larden Green, Latchford, Ledsham, Lightwood Green, Little Bollington, Little Budworth, Little Leigh, Little Neston, Little Stanney, Little Sutton, Littleton, Lostock Gralam, Lostock Green, Lower Kinnerton, Lower Peover, Lower Walton, Lower Whitley, Lower Withington, Lymm, Macclesfield, Macclesfield Forest, Malpas, Manley, Marbury, Marley Green, Marston, Marthall, Martinscroft, Marton, Mere, Mickle Trafford, Middlewich, Middlewood, Milton Green, Mobberley, Mollington, Monks’ Heath, Moore, Morley Green, Mottram St Andrew, Mouldsworth, Moulton, Mount Manisty, Nantwich, Ness, Neston, Nether Alderley, Netherton, Newhall, Newton, Newtown, No Man’s Heath, Norbury, Norley, North Rode, Northwich, Norton, Oakgrove, Occlestone Green, Oldcastle Heath, Ollerton, Orford, Oscroft, Over, Over Peover, Over Tabley, Overpool, Parkgate, Peckforton, Penketh, Peover Heath, Pickmere, Picton, Plumley, Pott Shrigley, Poynton, Prestbury, Preston Brook, Preston on the Hill, Puddinglake, Puddington, Pulford, Quarrybank, Radway Green, Rainow, Ravensmoor, Rease Heath, Risley, Rode Heath, Rodeheath, Rostherne, Rowton, Rudheath, Runcorn, Rushton, Saighton, Salterswall, Sandbach, Sandiway, Saughall, Scholar Green, Shavington, Shocklach, Shotwick, Siddington, Smithy Green, Sound, Spen Green, Sproston Green, Spurstow, Stapeley, Statham, Stoak, Stockton Heath, Stretton, Styal, Sutton Lane Ends, Sutton Weaver, Swanbach, Swettenham, Sworton Heath, Tarporley, Tarvin, Tarvin Sands, Tattenhall, Thelwall, Thornton-le-Moors, Threapwood, Tilston, Tilstone Fearnall, Timbersbrook, Tiverton, Twiss Green, Tytherington, Upton, Walgherton, Wardle, Warmingham, Warren, Warrington, Waverton, Weaverham, Wervin, Weston, Weston Point, Wettenhall, Wettenhall Green, Wharton, Wheelock, Whitby, Whitegate, Widnes, Wildboarclough, Wilkesley, Willaston, Willington Corner, Wilmslow, Wincham, Wincle, Winsford, Winterley, Winwick, Wirswall, Wistaston, Withington Green, Woolston, Worleston, Wrenbury, Wybunbury

Fishing Lake in Suffolk

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Find out where to fish – ALWAYS BEST TO GIVE THEM A RING – search for the best places to fish near you, local fishing spots, using our fishing lakes directory.In addition, learn more about species that can be caught in these waters as well as places to buy fishing tackle, licenses, equipment etc. from our friendly experts listed here.

UK Fishing Lake

Creeting Lakes, Braziers Hall, Stowmarket, IP14 5BW
Tel. 01449 612364

Gludy Lake Ltd, Low Farm House Snakes Lane, Bungay, NR35 2BU
Tel. 07890 711847

Warrior Charter Boats, 164 Avondale Rd, Ipswich, IP3 9LA
Tel. 01473 270982

Weybread Carp Fishery, Mill Lane Farm Mill Lane, Diss, IP21 5TP
Tel. 07824 696835

Fishing Lake Suffolk

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Covering the following areas in Suffolk: Leek, Stafford, Stoke-On-Trent, Stone, Uttoxeter

This page is part of our Fishing Lake Directory for Suffolk. If you weren’t looking for Fishing Lake in Suffolk please use the search at the bottom of the page.

Fishing Lake Reviews in Suffolk

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Fishing Lake in Suffolk

You will find short extracts from Amazing Fishing Stories on each of our directory pages. There is a link to buy the book on our book page.

Short Extract

He took the glass the Canadian offered him, lit it and knocked it back. His eyebrows went first, then the front of his hair caught light and Nigel had to throw a bottle of water over his head to put him ARCTIC SALMON AND ICEBERGS
out. Somehow the quantity of vodka already consumed made it all seem hilarious, and the competition went on long into the night. No one could remember who won, but the two Englishmen had unearthly hangovers as they prepared for fishing in the morning.
Transport on the Varzuga was by boat and the plan was for Nigel and Steve to mot

Mark looked behind him, expecting to see a line of excited Japanese vying to be the first one to land a fish. However, all those on deck had their eyes closed and no one seemed in a hurry to leave the wheelhouse.
‘Bring it in yourself,’ Don called out.
Mark leant into the fish and tried to power it to the surface, but it wasn’t quite that easy. Each time he had it close to the top it bored away again, and it was a good six or seven minutes before he had it under control beside the boat.
Don flew out of the wheelhouse, leant over and hauled the fish inbo

But the real iconic Australian fish, with something of a cult status among its hoards of hunters, is the weird and wonderful barramundi, distant relative of the mighty Nile perch. It is weird because it frequents both salt and fresh water, and all barramundi are born male, only turning female later in life and definitely by the time they reach 17 pounds in weight. The much sought-after yard-long specimens are therefore all females and get very angry when hooked. They are the reverse of Atlantic salmon and sea trout, in that they spawn in the tidal reaches rather



Full List of areas covered on our Suffolk Fishing Lake Directory:

Acton, Akenham, Aldeburgh, Alderton, Aldham, Aldringham, All Saints South Elmham, Alpheton, Ampton, Ashbocking, Ashfield, Ashfield Green, Aspall, Assington, Athelington, Bacton, Badingham, Badley, Badwell Ash, Ballingdon, Bardwell, Barham, Barking, Barnardiston, Barnby, Barnham, Barningham, Barrow, Barsham, Barton Mills, Battisford, Battisford Tye, Bawdsey, Baylham, Beccles, Beck Row, Bedfield, Bedingfield, Belstead, Benacre, Bentley, Beyton, Beyton Green, Bildeston, Blackheath, Blackthorpe, Blackwater, Blaxhall, Blundeston, Blyford, Blythburgh, Botesdale, Boxford, Boxted, Boyton, Brabling Green, Bradfield Combust, Bradfield St Clare, Bradfield St George, Braiseworth, Bramfield, Bramford, Brampton, Brandeston, Brandon, Brantham, Bredfield, Brent Eleigh, Brettenham, Bridge Street, Brightwell, Broadway, Brockford Street, Brockley Green, Brome, Brome Street, Bromeswell, Brook Street, Bruisyard, Bruisyard Street, Brundish, Brundish Street, Bucklesham, Bungay, Bures, Bures Green, Burgate, Burgh, Burstall, Bury St Edmunds, Butley, Buxhall, Camps Heath, Campsey Ash, Capel St Andrew, Capel St Mary, Carlton, Carlton Colville, Castle Hill, Cattawade, Cavendish, Cavenham, Chantry, Charles Tye, Charsfield, Chattisham, Chedburgh, Chediston, Chelmondiston, Chelsworth, Chevington, Chickering, Chillesford, Chilton Street, Church Common, Clare, Clay Common, Claydon, Clopton Green, Cockfield, Coddenham, Coldfair Green, Combs, Combs Ford, Coney Weston, Cookley, Copdock, Corton, Cotton, Covehithe, Cowlinge, Cox Common, Cranmer Green, Cransford, Cratfield, Creeting St Mary, Cretingham, Cross Green, Cross Street, Crowfield, Crowland, Culford, Culpho, Dalham, Dallinghoo, Darsham, Debach, Debenham, Denham, Dennington, Denston, Depden, Drinkstone, Drinkstone Green, Dunstall Green, Dunwich, Earl Soham, Earl Stonham, Earl’s Green, East Bergholt, East Bridge, East End, Easton, Edwardstone, Ellough, Elmsett, Elmswell, Elveden, Eriswell, Erwarton, Euston, Exning, Eye, Eyke, Falkenham, Farnham, Felixstowe, Felsham, Fen Street, Fingal Street, Finningham, Flempton, Flixton, Flowton, Fornham All Saints, Fornham St Martin, Forward Green, Four Ashes, Framlingham, Framsden, Freckenham, Fressingfield, Freston, Friston, Frostenden, Gazeley, Gedding, Gedgrave Hall, Gipping, Gisleham, Gislingham, Glemsford, Gosbeck, Great Ashfield, Great Barton, Great Bealings, Great Blakenham, Great Bradley, Great Bricett, Great Cornard, Great Finborough, Great Glemham, Great Green, Great Livermere, Great Saxham, Great Thurlow, Great Waldingfield, Great Welnetham, Great Wenham, Great Wratting, Gromford, Groton, Grundisburgh, Hacheston, Hadleigh, Halesworth, Hargrave, Harkstead, Harleston, Hartest, Hasketon, Haughley, Haughley Green, Haughley New Street, Haverhill, Hawkedon, Hawstead, Heckfield Green, Helmingham, Hemingstone, Hemley, Hengrave, Henley, Henstead, Hepworth, Herringfleet, Herringswell, Hessett, Heveningham, High Street, High Street Green, Higham, Hinderclay, Hintlesham, Hitcham, Holbrook, Hollesley, Holton, Holton St Mary, Holywell Row, Homersfield, Honey Tye, Honington, Hoo, Hopton, Horham, Horringer, Hoxne, Hulver Street, Hundon, Hunston, Huntingfield, Icklingham, Iken, Ilketshall St Andrew, Ilketshall St Lawrence, Ilketshall St Margaret, Ingham, Ipswich, Ixworth, Ixworth Thorpe, Kedington, Kelsale, Kennyhill, Kentford, Kenton, Kersey, Kesgrave, Kessingland, Kessingland Beach, Kettlebaston, Kettleburgh, Kirkley, Kirton, Knettishall, Knodishall, Lackford, Lady’s Green, Lakenheath, Landwade, Langham, Lavenham, Lawshall, Laxfield, Layham, Leavenheath, Leiston, Letheringham, Levington, Lidgate, Lindsey, Linstead Parva, Little Bealings, Little Blakenham, Little Bradley, Little Fakenham, Little Finborough, Little Glemham, Little Green, Little Saxham, Little Stonham, Little Thurlow, Little Waldingfield, Little Welnetham, Little Wenham, Little Whittingham Green, Little Wratting, Long Melford, Long Thurlow, Lound, Lower Holbrook, Lowestoft, Lowestoft End, Market Weston, Marlesford, Martlesham, Martlesham Heath, Mellis, Melton, Mendham, Mendlesham, Mendlesham Green, Metfield, Mettingham, Mickfield, Middleton, Middlewood Green, Milden, Mildenhall, Monewden, Monk Soham, Monks Eleigh, Moulton, Mount Pleasant, Mutford, Nacton, Naughton, Nayland, Nedging Tye, Needham Market, Nettlestead, Newbourne, Newmarket, Newton, North Cove, Norton, Nowton, Oakley, Occold, Offton, Old Felixstowe, Old Newton, Orford, Otley, Oulton, Oulton Broad, Ousden, Pakefield, Pakenham, Palgrave, Parham, Peasenhall, Pettaugh, Pettistree, Pixey Green, Playford, Polstead, Poslingford, Poys Street, Poystreet Green, Preston, Ramsholt, Rattlesden, Raydon, Red Lodge, Rede, Redgrave, Redisham, Redlingfield, Rendham, Rendlesham, Reydon, Rickinghall, Ringsfield, Ringsfield Corner, Ringshall, Ringshall Stocks, Risby, Rishangles, Rodbridge Corner, Rougham, Rougham Green, Rumburgh, Rushbrooke, Rushmere, Rushmere St Andrew, Sackers Green, Santon Downham, Sapiston, Saxmundham, Saxtead Green, Saxtead Little Green, Semer, Shadingfield, Shelley, Shimpling, Shimpling Street, Shingle Street, Shipmeadow, Shop Corner, Shotley, Shotley Gate, Shottisham, Sibton, Sicklesmere, Silverley’s Green, Sizewell, Slaughden, Snape, Somerleyton, Somersham, Somerton, Sotterly, South Cove, Southolt, Southwold, Spexhall, Sproughton, St Cross South Elmham, St James South Elmham, St Margaret South Elmham, St Michael South Elmham, Stanningfield, Stansfield, Stanstead, Stanton, Stanton Street, Sternfield, Stoke Ash, Stoke by Clare, Stoke-by-Nayland, Stone Street, Stonham Aspal, Stoven, Stowlangtoft, Stowmarket, Stowupland, Stradbroke, Stradishall, Stratford St Andrew, Stratford St Mary, Stuston, Stutton, Sudbourne, Sudbury, Sutton, Sweffling, Swilland, Tannington, Tattingstone, Theberton, Thelnetham, Thistley Green, Thorington, Thorington Street, Thorndon, Thornham Magna, Thornham Parva, Thorns, Thorpe Green, Thorpe Morieux, Thorpeness, Thrandeston, Thurston, Thwaite, Timworth Green, Tostock, Town Street, Trimley St Martin, Trimley St Mary, Troston, Tuddenham, Tunstall, Ubbeston Green, Ufford, Uggeshall, Upper Street, Walberswick, Waldringfield, Walpole, Walsham le Willows, Walton, Wangford, Ward Green, Wattisfield, Wattisham, Wenhaston, West End, West Row, West Stow, Westerfield, Westhall, Westhorpe, Westleton, Westley, Wetherden, Wetheringsett, Wetherup Street, Weybread, Whatfield, Whepstead, Wherstead, Whitton, Wickham Market, Wickham Skeith, Wickham Street, Wickhambrook, Wilby, Willisham, Wingfield, Winston, Wissett, Wissington, Withersdale Street, Withersfield, Witnesham, Wixoe, Woodbridge, Woolpit, Woolverstone, Wordwell, Worlingham, Worlington, Worlingworth, Wortham, Wrentham, Wyverstone, Wyverstone Street, Yaxley, Yoxford

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UK Lakes Series

The UK is home to beautiful lakes, lochs, pools, reservoirs and waters, from the small but majestic Rydal Water in the Lake District to the bubbling Fairy Pools of Skye, the UK is home to a wide variety of spectacular lakes for water-sports, wild swims, bike rides, water-side walks and picnics.

These guides gives you plenty of information, including what species of fish can be caught at each water, maps, directions, parking details, ticket prices, rules for that venue, on site facilities, disabled access and contact numbers. Most lakes, ponds and rivers in and around the area are featured and all contain photographs of the venues. This full colour guide contains all you need to know for a great days fishing.

Much of the advice for fishing lakes will be similar to our suggestions for river fishing so we suggest that you read that first. We can then identify any differences between the two styles.

Rods – again we would advise a 12ft match rod. You are looking for a ‘through’ action whereas float fishing rods for river use are ideally ‘tip’ actioned. A through action rod has a gradual bend from the tip right down the section to the butt whereas the tip action has stiffer middle and butt joints leaving only the tip to bend.

The tip actioned rod is ideal when fishing for roach and dace in the rivers where you need to be able to pick up lots of loose line that is laying on the surface between the rod and the float. When we’re fishing lakes we tend to use ‘waggler’ type float with the line fixed only at the bottom of the float giving us a sunken line and a more direct contact to a biting fish. We would recommend something like the Shakespeare Odessa 12ft

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Fishing Lake in Cambridgeshire

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Find out where to fish – ALWAYS BEST TO GIVE THEM A RING – search for the best places to fish near you, local fishing spots, using our fishing lakes directory.In addition, learn more about species that can be caught in these waters as well as places to buy fishing tackle, licenses, equipment etc. from our friendly experts listed here.

UK Fishing Lake

 

Lawn Farm Fishery & Bait Shop, Lawn Farm Fishery, Cambridge, CB23 4JX, Cambridgeshire
Tel. 01954 718269

Fishing Lake Cambridgeshire

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Covering the following areas in Cambridgeshire: Abbots Ripton, Arrington, Barkway, Benwick, Bythorn, Cambridge, Castor, Caxton, Chatteris, Chrishall, Comberton, Cottenham, Croxton, Elsworth, Ely, Fowlmere, Gamlingay, Great Gransden, Guyhirn, Histon, Huntingdon, Isleham, Kelshall, Kimbolton, Madingley, Manea, March, Newton, Papworth St Agnes, Parson Drove, Peterborough, Potton, Prickwillow, Pymore, Ramsey, Royston, Sandy, St Ives, St. Neots, Steeple Morden, Stretham, Swavesey, Teversham, Tilbrook, Tydd, West Wratting, Willingham, Winwick, Wisbech, Wisbech St Mary, Wrestlingworth

This page is part of our Fishing Lake Directory for Cambridgeshire. If you weren’t looking for Fishing Lake in Cambridgeshire please use the search at the bottom of the page.

Fishing Lake Reviews in Cambridgeshire

Please contact us with your reviews of any of the lakes you visit or fish. Opening hours and costs are very useful.

Fishing Lake in Cambridgeshire

You will find short extracts from Amazing Fishing Stories on each of our directory pages. There is a link to buy the book on our book page.

Short Extract

n the 1960s, when boys were still allowed to go off fishing on their own, Greg and Richard were given permission to fish in a beautiful private lake in the grounds of a manor house on the border between Surrey and Sussex in southern England. They had no real idea what fish were in the lake and, at 10 years old, they only had very basic angling skills in any case.
They left their bikes in the lane against the fence running round the property. Full of excitement about this first ever trip on their own, they grabbed their tackle, jumped over the stile and ran ac

The technique was simple. A motor tender would tow them out into St Ann’s Bay, an area about 4 miles long by a mile wide, and then Percy would take over on the oars once they sighted tuna. The tuna herded baitfish into the bay, gorging themselves on the shoals of herring, mackerel and squid, and the idea was to try to head them off with the boat, often trolling the bait right through the middle of a feeding frenzy, and hope that a tuna would hook up.
Duncan began to catch plenty of blue fins this way, and locals watching from boats or the shore would tell of

I arrived at the lodge for lunch with a bit more confidence that I was doing something right for a change, and had a laugh with Sam about the Cascade.
‘Fluke!’ he said. ‘It would have taken a Willie Gunn just as well.’
We were having lunch when someone remarked that a squirrel was pinching nuts from the bird table. This is a fairly regular occurrence at home, so I didn’t get too excited, until I realised that it was a red squirrel. I then became the butt of people’s jokes as I went outside and assumed a secret commando-type approach to the bird table, usin

 


Full List of areas covered on our Cambridgeshire Fishing Lake Directory:

Abbots Ripton, Abbotsley, Abington Pigotts, Ailsworth, Alconbury, Alconbury Hill, Alconbury Weston, Aldreth, Alwalton, Apes Hall, Arrington, Ashley, Babraham, Bainton, Balsham, Bar Hill, Barham, Barnack, Barrington, Bartlow, Barton, Barway, Bassingbourn, Benwick, Bluntisham, Bottisham, Bourn, Boxworth, Boxworth End, Brampton, Brandon Bank, Brandon Creek, Bridgefoot, Brington, Brinkley, Broad Hill, Broughton, Buckden, Buckworth, Burrough End, Burrough Green, Burwell, Bury, Bythorn, Caldecote, Cambridge, Camps End, Carlton, Castle Camps, Castor, Catworth, Caxton, Caxton Gibbet, Chatteris, Cherry Hinton, Chesterton, Chettisham, Cheveley, Chippenham, Chittering, Chrishall Grange, Christchurch, Church End, Coates, Coldham, Colne, Comberton, Commercial End, Conington, Coppingford, Coton, Cottenham, Coveney, Covington, Croxton, Croydon, Denton, Diddington, Ditton Green, Doddington, Down Field, Dry Drayton, Dullingham, Duxford, Earith, East Hatley, Easton, Eastrea, Eaton Ford, Eaton Socon, Eldernell, Ellington, Elm, Elsworth, Eltisley, Elton, Ely, Etton, Eye, Eye Green, Eynesbury, Farcet, Fen Ditton, Fen Drayton, Fenstanton, Fenton, Fitton End, Flint Cross, Folksworth, Fordham, Four Gotes, Fowlmere, Foxton, Friday Bridge, Frog End, Fulbourn, Gamlingay, Girton, Glatton, Glinton, Godmanchester, Gorefield, Grafham, Grantchester, Graveley, Great Abington, Great Chishill, Great Eversden, Great Gidding, Great Gransden, Great Paxton, Great Raveley, Great Shelford, Great Staughton, Great Stukeley, Great Wilbraham, Guilden Morden, Guyhirn, Haddenham, Haddon, Hail Weston, Hamerton, Hardwick, Harlton, Harston, Hartford, Haslingfield, Hatley St George, Hauxton, Helpston, Hemingford Abbots, Hemingford Grey, Heydon, Highfields, Hildersham, Hilton, Hinxton, Histon, Hobbs Lots Bridge, Holme, Holywell, Horningsea, Horseheath, Horseway, Houghton, Huntingdon, Ickleton, Impington, Isleham, Kennett, Keyston, Kimbolton, Kings Ripton, Kingston, Kirtling, Kirtling Green, Knapwell, Kneesworth, Landbeach, Lark Hall, Leighton Bromswold, Leverington, Linton, Litlington, Little Abington, Little Chishill, Little Downham, Little Eversden, Little Gidding, Little Gransden, Little Paxton, Little Raveley, Little Shelford, Little Stukeley, Little Thetford, Little Wilbraham, Littleport, Lode, Lolworth, Longstanton, Longstowe, Longthorpe, Madingley, Manea, March, Marholm, Maxey, Melbourn, Meldreth, Mepal, Milton, Molesworth, Morborne, Murrow, Needingworth, New England, New Walsoken, New Wimpole, Newark, Newborough, Newton, Norman Cross, North Side, Northborough, Oakington, Offord Cluny, Offord D’Arcy, Old Fletton, Old Weston, Oldhurst, Orton Longueville, Orton Waterville, Orwell, Outwell, Over, Pampisford, Papworth Everard, Papworth St Agnes, Parson Drove, Peakirk, Peterborough, Pidley, Pilsgate, Pondersbridge, Prickwillow, Purls Bridge, Pymore, Queen Adelaide, Rampton, Ramsey, Ramsey Forty Foot, Ramsey Heights, Ramsey Mereside, Ramsey St Mary’s, Reach, Ring’s End, River Bank, Sawston, Sawtry, Saxon Street, Shepreth, Shingay, Shudy Camps, Sibson, Six Mile Bottom, Snailwell, Soham, Somersham, Southoe, Southorpe, Spaldwick, St Ives, St Neots, Stanground, Stapleford, Staughton Green, Staughton Highway, Steeple Gidding, Steeple Morden, Stetchworth, Stibbington, Stilton, Stonely, Stow cum Quy, Stow Longa, Stretham, Stuntney, Sutton, Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Prior, Swavesey, Tadlow, Tetworth, Teversham, Tholomas Drove, Thorney, Thornhaugh, Thriplow, Tilbrook, Toft, Toseland, Town End, Trumpington, Tydd St Giles, Ufford, Upend, Upton, Upware, Upwood, Walsoken, Walton, Wansford, Warboys, Wardy Hill, Waresley, Water Newton, Waterbeach, Welches Dam, Wendy, Wennington, Wentworth, Werrington, West Perry, West Wickham, West Wratting, Westley Waterless, Weston Colville, Weston Green, Westry, Westwick, Whaddon, Whaddon Gap, Whittlesey, Whittlesford, Wicken, Wilburton, Willingham, Wimblington, Winwick, Wisbech, Wisbech St Mary, Wistow, Witcham, Witchford, Wittering, Woodditton, Woodhurst, Woodston, Woodwalton, Woolley, Wyton, Yaxley, Yelling

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What is it called when you go fishing in the ocean?
Saltwater Fishing – fishing in salt waters (oceans). Also called “tidal waters fishing”.

Targeting a species and learning all the methods and situations that can increase your catch rate can be a very important factor in increasing you catch rate when sea fishing. There are a vast number of different species, such as Pollock, fish that can be found in many different locations and can be fished for using many different methods. Where to fish for many species include;

  • Rock and reef marks are very popular locations for fish.
  • Both inshore and off shore wrecks will produce various fish pollock to a good size.
  • Piers  will produce fish all year around but. generally these fish are not of a great size.
  • Weed beds and deep kelp  hide a lot of predators and prey.
  • Broken ground can hold all sorts of species including the pollock. Some fishing techniques
  • Lure fishing. Deep sea wreck fishing often requires heavy weights to take a jelly worm or metal lure to the sea bed.
  • Saltwater fly is effective when fish are in shallow water and fish can be of all sizes and at a whole range of locations including piers, reefs and weed beds.  Flies that mimic small fish and prawns work well, sea trout flies and saltwater flies are popular.
  • Float fishing can be used almost anywhere in shallower water.Common baits are sand eel and fillets of fish bait.
  • Ledgering can work well using the normal  baits fish.
  • Live baits work well for many fish usually resulting in a strong take and suitable equipment needs to be used.

Common  Catches when Sea Fishing

The sky’s the limit, or in the case of sea fishing, the sea’s the limit. Even fishing inshore waters, anglers can catch everything from tarpon to flounder. Anglers fishing the northeast coast can expect flounder and cod to congregate in bays and river mouths. Striped bass and bluefish fall for lures from surf-casters, as will weakfish and sea trout.

Farther south, red drum (redfish), tarpon, and bonefish excite anglers as they cruise the shallow flats of bays. These fish can be taken on traditional gear or fly-fishing tackle, nothing special needed for sea fishing. Snook fight like the saltwater version of the large-mouth bass, and sharks cruise off many coasts. With sea fishing, you don’t really know what you’re going to catch next, which is part of its great allure.

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Bass Fishing

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Fishing for Bass

Bass Fishing

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In the past, where human populations were sparse and fishing pressure modest, sea bass were simply called “bass”, meaning basically “prickly.” But in Mediterranean Europe the same species began to be named in a way that indicated intelligence. The ancient Greeks associated the fish with the word labros, or “turbulence.” Homer uses labros in reference to wind and waterbut labros as it applied to sea bass gradually came to imply cleverness. In modern Greek the concept of the sea bass as a clever fish became its defining characteristic. Today the fish is called lavraki – “the clever one.” If you wanted to indicate in modern Greek that someone had cleverly figured out something tricky and challenging, you would say that he epyase lavraki – “he caught a sea bass.”

The perception of the bass as clever occurs in other Mediterranean languages. The Romans named the fish after an animal they considered particularly intelligent – lupinus, which eventually became the French loup de mer – “sea wolf.” And the Latin poet Ovid wrote of sea bass as using its smarts to frustrate its potential captors. “In vain above the greedy [fisherman] toils,” Ovid wrote, “while with arts more exquisite the bass beguiles.”

European sea bass thus seem to have rapidly solidified their reputation for cleverness in the Mediterranean. The reason for this may be a direct product of the holiday-like environment of the Mediterranean Sea, the place where humans and sea bass had their most intense interactions. The Mediterranean occupies an exceptionally warm and dry climatic zone. Most rivers on the European continent flow away from it, meaning that, compared to other seas, the Mediterranean’s biotic systems receive few nutrients. The sea is therefore described by scientists with the Greek-derived word oligotrophic – a place that “contains little nourishment.”  By the time one reaches the level of the European sea bass, both the population of fish and the size of individual fish are naturally smaller and more sensitive to exploitation than in more productive seas. Recently the Italian cookbook author Marcella Hazan said that when she moved to the United States, she simply could not find the right fish for her European sea bass recipes. “Your bass are too big!” she lamented.

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Carp Fishing

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Carp Fishing

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One of the largest members of the minnow family and a close relative of the goldfish, the common carp is among the least – favoured targets of freshwater anglers in North America. Common carp exist in good supply and in relatively large sizes (compared to most other species), and provide an underutilized resource for anglers, not to mention an ample source of protein. In some circles carp are highly regarded as a food fish and can be prepared in many ways. ID. The common carp has a deep body form and a heavy appearance.

Distinctive features include a short head, rounded snout, single long dorsal fin, forked tail, and relatively large scales. The mouth is toothless and sucker like, adapted to bottom feeding, and the upper jaw projects slightly past the lower one. The common carp has a single serrated spine at the front of the dorsal and anal fins and two pairs of fleshy barbels on either side of its mouth. Colouring ranges from gold to olive to brown, with a yellowish colouring on the lower sides and belly and a reddish tint to the lower fins. Each scale on the upper sides of the fish has a concentrated dark spot at its base and a conspicuous dark rim.

Common Carp Cyprinus carpio

Juveniles and breeding males are usually a darker green or grey with a dark belly, and females are lighter. Habitat. Common carp are incredibly hardy and flexible in their habitat preferences. Primarily bottom – dwelling fish, carp like quiet, shallow waters with a soft bottom and dense aquatic vegetation. Although they favour large turbid waters, they also thrive in small rivers and lakes. They can live in low – oxygen environments and can tolerate temperature fluctuations and extremes. In some northern waters where the fish are abundant and such terrain is lacking or offers no food, carp will cruise over shallow, rocky flats and shoals, browsing along the rubble bottom. Food. Omnivorous feeders, carp have predominantly vegetarian diets but will feed on aquatic insects, snails, crustaceans, annelids, and molluscs.

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Aquatic plants and filamentous algae are the most popular food groups. They grub sediments from the bottom with their sucker like mouths, uprooting and destroying vegetation and muddying the water. Carp primarily spend their lives in small groups and are inclined to roam for food. Angling. Because carp primarily eat aquatic plants, and not other fish, they are less receptive than many other species to the most commonly practiced methods of fishing in North America. Nevertheless, they are strong fish and hearty battlers, capable of stretching a fishing line and testing the skills of most anglers. Getting a carp to take your offering can be a challenge, as they are not impulsive predators or ambush strikers.

For the most part, they are not chasers or stalk – and – attack hunters. They are unlikely to strike most lures, although they occasionally strike a slow – moving jig, and either a weighted or a dry fly. Spinning, spin-casting, fly-casting, and bait-casting tackle are all used to land carp, but spinning is probably the most functional method. In North America, carp have been caught on an assortment of bait, primarily dough-balls, corn, worms, processed baits, and commercially prepared baits, with and without chumming. Although they primarily feed on the bottom, carp also feed on or near the surface as well as at mid-levels. Fishing for carp is mostly a waiting game, but stealthy anglers can opt to take a more aggressive approach and hunt for them, stalking and casting to visible fish. the equipment list.

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