Results
Name……………: Richard Johns
Age…………….: 56
Date day………..: 11
Date month………: June
Date year……….: 2009
Lake……………: Lake 5
Carp (mirror)……: checkbox
Carp (common)……: checkbox
Notable fish…….: commons x 4
mirrors x 3
Bait and tactics…: Halibut pellet soaked in salmon oil hair rigged
Information……..: Weather started overcast then sunny with moderate breeze. Fished to peninsula on lake 5 with size 12 Gardner mugga hair rigs with 14mm drilled halibut pellets soaked in salmon oil. Lots of pick up and drop runs but landed 4 commons and 3 mirrors, all singles between 5lb 8oz and 9lb 12oz to a total weight of 51lb 8oz. Excellent venue, which, to date always produces catches.
Name……………: Daniel Purton
Age…………….: 16
Date day………..: 9
Date month………: June
Date year……….: 2009
Lake……………: Lake 5
Carp (mirror)……: checkbox
Carp (common)……: checkbox
Notable fish…….: The 1st run I had was off a catfish but unhooked its self or dropped the bait. The 2nd run was off a very big carp easily 20lbs but lost it. The 3rd run was off another catfish but also lost that. I changed the hook size to a size 8 and had a 17lb 5oz common! then plenty of 7lb mirrors and 10lb commons throughout the day.
Bait and tactics…: I got a kg of dynamite baits swimstim groundbait, got a 900g tin of hempseed, big tin of cheap sweetcorn, bag of 10mm halibut pellets and some Koi micro green pellets and mixed it all up into a damp mixed, enough to make balls with. Also I added some Richworth K-G-1 boilies to the mix and fed next to some lillies. This produced well, I could reccomend that mix to anyone. You will need a good amount as I had to put in quite alot to keep the carp feeding!. But start off with small amounts as it may spook the carp.
Information……..: Im local, from New Quay and have fished the fishery a number of times and have never been let down with the quality of the fish, Always fish with the baits you think wont work as they tend to do so! I highly reccomend the Richworth handy pack boilies especially the K-G-1 and Pinapple Hawaian!
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Name……………: Jamie
Age…………….: 23
Date day………..: 2
Date month………: June
Date year……….: 2009
Lake……………: Lake 6
Carp (mirror)……: checkbox
Catfish…………: checkbox
Notable fish…….: Between 4 of us angling for a 48 hour session we
had
8 cats 3 at 16 pound, 1 at 18 pound, 2 at 23 and 2 at 30 pound. Me ans
Ste also had 30 mins of floating dog biscuit and floating strawberry
pellet around peg 17 in the bottom corner and both had mirror carp
upto around double figures.
Top few days fishing! Great resort will defo be back soon to get
bigger cats!!
Bait and tactics…: Cats caught on Halibut pellets 4 or 5 tied
together over beds of tuna sweetcorn and lots of groundbait and fish
smelling pellets. also a couple of cats caught on halibut boiley and 1
cat caught on milk chocolate pop up. carp caught on dog biscuit and
strawberry pellet on top.
Information……..: Cats mainly caught on island over the way from
peg 23 got realli close with bait boat. All cats caught in margins!
Name……………: steve heaton
Age…………….: 30
Date day………..: 1
Date month………: June
Date year……….: 2009
Lake……………: Lake 6
Carp (common)……: checkbox
Bream…………..: checkbox
Notable fish…….: 4 cats 1 at 30lb 4 oz 1 at 23lb 6oz 1 at 14lb and 1 at 1olb also a 12lb common Bait and tactics…: korda safety bolt rig 15lb main line with 40lb braided hooklengh size 2 barbless hooks with 4 x 21mm halibut pellets hair rigged on peg 23 fished tight o the far island using bait boat with some 21mm freebies and plenty of 6mm trout pellets and aided with a little salmon oil for extra attraction did the trick
Information……..: 1st time visitor from hattersley hyde.found the venue bit off the beaten track but well worth the 4 hour journey.defo going back but doing a full week next time and taking more pelletsweather was red hot and still got plenty of runs despite most of the carp spawning
Name……………: Phil John
Age…………….: 27
Date day………..: 1
Date month………: June
Date year……….: 2009
Lake……………: Lake 6
Carp (mirror)……: checkbox
Carp (common)……: checkbox
Catfish…………: checkbox
Notable fish…….: 6 Catfish biggest 2 were 18lb 8 oz and 16lb plenty of carp to 14lb Bait and tactics…: Halibut pellet and fish/oyster boilies for cats and all sorts of boilies for carp.
Information……..: Weather was hot all day with fish spawning everywhere but at around 7pm till 9am action was thick and fast.
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Name……………: Richard Johns
Date day………..: 21
Date month………: April
Date year……….: 2009
Lake……………: Lake 5
Carp (mirror)……: checkbox
Carp (common)……: checkbox
Notable fish…….: Common Carp 16lb
Common Carp 15lb 12oz
Mirror Carp 11lb
Bait and tactics…: Sliding Leger, Gardner Mugga size 12 barbless
Information……..: Weather dry, overcast with a little wind. Started
using hair-rigged pepperami on rod 1 fishing in margins to the left.
Rod 2 hair rigged kiwi and crustacean boillie fished straight out to peninsula.
In the first hour I had landed a 16lb common, lost 2 good sized
commons at the net,all on rod 1. Changed to pepperami on both rods and
landed another common just below 16lb and a mirror of 11lb. Missed
another 2 and had loads of runs before bait was dropped. A very
enjoyable days fishing, only next time I\’ll try to cut down on the losses!
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Name……………: Chris Higham
Date day………..: 16
Date month………: April
Date year……….: 2009
Lake……………: Lake 5
Carp (mirror)……: checkbox
Notable fish…….: 12lb, 5lb 8oz, 4lb 12oz, 4lb 8oz, 2x 4lb and 3lb 12oz all being Mirror Carp Bait and tactics…: Fished a variety of baits, had runs on them all. Baits were tiger nut boilie, tutti frutti pop-up, 21mm halibut pellet and worms and dead bait both intended for the catfish. Had my 12lb on 21mm halibut pellet, my 2x 4lb, 4lb 8oz and 5lb 8oz on tutti frutti pop-up and my 3lb 12oz on a tiger nut boilie. Lost a catfish on a deadbait late in the evening and had the 4lb 12oz carp on the worms. Carp methods were fished with PVA bags, whilst the catfish baits were put over a heap of Celtic Lakes groundbait.
Information……..: Travelled from Preston, first time here and it was great, the heavy rain didnt stop the runs. 24 hour session, 7 fish, 9 runs, including a lost catfish. Baliff and locals were very helpful, thanks very much!
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Name……………: Richard Turner
Date day………..: 22
Date month………: April
Date year……….: 2009
Lake……………: Lake 4
Carp (mirror)……: checkbox
Carp (common)……: checkbox
Notable fish…….: 11lb 14oz common, 8 fish all above 6lb Bait and tactics…: floatter fishin mixer, or red squid boilie over pellet
Information……..: windy but warm
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Celtic Lakes catch reports
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Name……………: Brian
Date day………..: 4
Date month………: April
Date year……….: 2009
Lake……………: Lake 6
Catfish…………: checkbox
Notable fish…….: 29 Lb 4oz cat
Bait and tactics…: lamprey on hair rig
2)
Name……………: Richard Turner
Date day………..: 8
Date month………: April
Date year……….: 2009
Lake……………: Lake 5
Carp (mirror)……: checkbox
Carp (common)……: checkbox
Notable fish…….: 12lb commom, 2 smaller commons and 3 simmon
Bait and tactics…: cat meat over pellet and hailbut pellet
Information……..: again, just a short evening session.
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Catch report for 14th March 2009
Gary Wadey
Lake……………: Lake 6
Carp (common)……: checkbox
Notable fish…….: 3 commons. 10lb , 12lb 4oz, 14lb 2oz
Bait and tactics…: critically balanced snowman rig on running lead,mono
hooklink.
Information……..: Decided to fish an overnight session as weather had
been quite settled for the last few days with regards the air temp and
wind direction and the fish have started to show around the lake.Towards
the eve wind dropped right off and cloud disappeared resulting in clear
cold night as temp dropped to 1 degree and a ground frost.Not ideal
conditions but was quite happy with the 3 fish at the end of session.
2 anglers from south wales fished on the point between the islands on the
12th and banked a 21lb common and 22lb mirror in an eleven fish catch.
Lake 5 is producing fish to all anglers with lots of mid doubles gracing
the nets with heaviest fish this week a 19lb common.
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The much anticipated 2008 Wales Carp Masters is off and running at last with Heat 1 taking place at Celtic Lakes Resort over the weekend of 30th May – 1st June.
Seven pairs of carp anglers took part in Heat 1 of the competition, now in its second year. The first three teams were:
Position Team Peg Weight
1 James Willatts & Lee Botchett 1 350lb
2 Nigel Davies & Robbie Davies 6 172lb
3 Bob Randerson & Blondie Jones 9 143lb
Amazingly enough, James Willatts & Lee Botchett also won the heat one qualifying event at Celtic Lakes last year with a weight of 324lb 8oz. Congratulations to James and Lee who will be joined in the grand final by runners up Nigel Davies and Robbie Davies.
James had this to say after clinching his team’s place in the final:
“Myself and Lee Botchett won the first Heat with 350lb. Looking through the log I think it was a total of 42 fish. We fished the first Heat last year at Celtic Lakes and are delighted to have qualified for the final again. It was an exhausting weekend but we are very pleased that the effort paid off. Sorry no photos of fish, didn’t seem to have time to take any ;-). Looking forward to the final and I hope by then Lee can make a decent cup of tea… ;-)”
John Carney, who heads the Wales Carp Masters team was delighted with the first heat of this years event:
“We are all feeling a little knackered right now but we are over the moon at the way the first heat of the Wales Carp Masters has gone. I would like to thank the whole WCM team for their hard work and effort, not only during the heat but also in the planning and organising of the event. I would also like to thank the competitors for the exemplary way they conducted themselves during the weekend and finally congratulations to the winning two pairs who we look forward to seeing back here at Celtic Lakes in the final in August”.
There are still places available in the remaining five heats. Heats three and four at Celtic Lakes were both won last year with weights topping 500lbs and 600lbs respectively. So if you fancy some amazing carp fishing and a chance to be crowned Wales Carp Masters 2008, please visit our registration page to find out more.
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