Astwood Bank Angling Club Forum

Thats a lot of small carp, they just make it impossible to single out the bigger fish when there is that much competition. You can almost imagine the bigger carp sat watching the small uns hanging themselves so they know that there is a danger of being caught! :-D. Perhaps from what you said the mar...

I think it has got to pay to make an attempt to single out larger ones, bigger baits can work but a lot of the time the bigger fish are more nomadic and hang back from the shoal of small uns. I have also found on other venues islands seem to hold a lot of small fish too, It may work just baiting a s...

I have it on good info there is in fact 20s in there, getting through the smaller carp is a bit of a prob though. If you look on club pic gallery there is an old pic of chris holding a 16lb mirror in his mug shot. Nice pool for a bit of action bradley green.

Know what you mean about nights drawing in, that time of year again, not looking forward to frozen lakes again :-( ,plenty of fishing to go yet anyway :-D . Its good to have a mixture of waters and species within a club, and i think we have a good balance as it is, just use swan pool as somewhere to...

Yeah ha ha, and the bream mate, almost as much as the ducks. Lasers dont work on bream so well ive found, bummer!!!

They do make a mess of the banks, and i think it was them that killed all the lush reeds around the margins, you used to have to walk a path through them to get to waters edge at one time, shame. Ive never found the fishing suffers though, we have had similiar ammounts on there before, they just mak...

Bradley green , nice venue and an ideal place to go if you are scratching for bites elsewhere , especially through winter time when you want a bend in the rod!! I would imagine its a good place to take the youngsters to learn as i dont think you can do a lot wrong on there.

Had a look down abbots lake other day and could not believe how many ducks have been put on this year, its like duck city!! Lets hope they mannage to shoot more of them this season!