Bake Hall

[Craig Smith]

Does anyone know this water?
I am fishing there for this years Interpharma fishing match. It is a charity match for Second Chance held between some of the pharmaceutical companies in the UK.
Any info will be better than what I have to go on at the moment!
Cheers for any help and tight lines : )

 

[Jason Middleton]

Craig,

Blakehall is a commercial fishery, and consists of 3 lakes, 2 match lakes and a specimen lake.

The lakes are mainly stocked with pastie carp, but the bigger of the 3 pools also has a good head of rudd and tench.

I haven't fished there for a few weeks, but the last match I saw was won with just over 20lb, however on its day 80lb+ weights are possible on the larger pool.

There are bans on barbed hooks,all pellets, boilies, & pastes, but groundbait is allowed.

I have never fished any of the matches so don't know what tends to be the winning methods/bait, but have had considerable success fishing the tip using worms, red maggot, sweetcorn or bread.

Hope that helps

 

[Craig Smith]

Jase,
Cheers dude : )
Tip being straight lead or feeder?

 

[Jason Middleton]

Usually start with the feeder, and take it from there

 

[Dave Johnson]

Jase, if you remember, I 'balled' in about 6 jaffa sized balls of g/bait laced with corn at the start and within minutes was getting intres on corn but as soon as I went onto bread i was getting much faster ands confident bites.
I continued to use a feeder (cage) and switched to a bomb intermittently