Graham Whatmore
Senior Member
Yesterday I and my usual fishing mate fished a commercial lake, namely Evesbatch.
I used to fish matches here in the 80's and early 90's and though there were lots of silver fish to be caught it was primarily the carp that were targeted using the "blasting maggots" method. The lake we used for these matches was the top one which appears to be unused now as there were no obvious pegs on there at all, so we fished one of the bottom two. The fishery being out in "the sticks" is very secluded and both car park and fishery entrance are protected by a combination lock and the numbers are changed every day for obvious reasons
We both caught fish steadily all day on the waggler including small bream, skimmers up to 2lb, beautifully conditioned roach up to a 1lb, a few small rudd and a few perch up to 1lb. One of the other guys who was actually fishing for carp had five with the biggest being just over 13lb, John had one carp about 5lb but other than that we never got a sniff of any of them.
Only three other guys were fishing and, it being completely surrounded by trees and bushes, we had constant birdsong all day long to help make the day even better. This is an out and out commercial pool and matches are run virtually every weekend but it gives lie to the impression that "commercial" are the sort of places pleasure anglers don't want to go. It is a smashing little pool of about three acres in what can only be described as beautiful surroundings and I would recommend that anyone who has a baised opinion on what commercials are, should go there and I will guarantee they will love it, we did thats for sure.
I used to fish matches here in the 80's and early 90's and though there were lots of silver fish to be caught it was primarily the carp that were targeted using the "blasting maggots" method. The lake we used for these matches was the top one which appears to be unused now as there were no obvious pegs on there at all, so we fished one of the bottom two. The fishery being out in "the sticks" is very secluded and both car park and fishery entrance are protected by a combination lock and the numbers are changed every day for obvious reasons
We both caught fish steadily all day on the waggler including small bream, skimmers up to 2lb, beautifully conditioned roach up to a 1lb, a few small rudd and a few perch up to 1lb. One of the other guys who was actually fishing for carp had five with the biggest being just over 13lb, John had one carp about 5lb but other than that we never got a sniff of any of them.
Only three other guys were fishing and, it being completely surrounded by trees and bushes, we had constant birdsong all day long to help make the day even better. This is an out and out commercial pool and matches are run virtually every weekend but it gives lie to the impression that "commercial" are the sort of places pleasure anglers don't want to go. It is a smashing little pool of about three acres in what can only be described as beautiful surroundings and I would recommend that anyone who has a baised opinion on what commercials are, should go there and I will guarantee they will love it, we did thats for sure.