I have fished all eight of the lakes on the woolpack syndicates and I guess home is lake 3 as that's where I spent six years of my life. But of all the lakes it's lake eight that draws me and the one I enjoy fishing the most. It's probably because its very much like the gravel pits I used to fish back in the 1980's, places where I served my carping apprenticeship.
But it's not just like any one of them, it has elements of all them, and the ones I like best. The varied topography of the lake bed, the wealth of weedbeds and the way it lends itself to angling. The positioning of swims giving plenty of space to fish in, creating a sense of seclusion.
It's always had carp in it but was created mainly as a course/tench fishery and to a certain extent it still is! The tench have become a big nusience and a session can be destroyed by them but if you can get through to the carp, then the rewards are there.
It now has 75 carp in it at least three of which have been seen, identified but never caught and they are all big.
So far I have caught about half of them with a number of repeats so it going to be either luck or time that I need on my side. So if we can sort out the tench issue (i need to start moving them into the stock pond again eh...) I think I am definitely going to renew my ticket.
This was the third carp of my overnighter this week and my second twenty of the morning, one I havent caught before :-)