After spending the spring on the Gault lake and the summer on the River Ouse, Autumn saw me on a local pond known as Cawcutts lake.
It was dug in the late 1970's as an irrigation lake for the local fruit farm Chivers, who owned the site on Cawcutts farm. In the mid 1980's it was stocked with carp by a local club, which is when I first fished it. I returned again in 2004 to find the fish had grown on well reaching high twenties. In 2015 it was otter fenced and re-stocked by Embryo Angling habitats and then in 2016 they opened it as a syndicate.
In August of 2019 my river fishing was coming to an end and I was looking for somewhere else to fish and film. I'd heard a few tickets were available for the mid-week rota on Cawcutts so after a little correspondence with a few members I applied. It was just what I was looking for. A new challenge to get my head around, plenty of good sized carp and unlike the Gault lake and the Great Ouse I would be allowed to fully publicise it.
After applying I received my ticket in the second week of September 2019 and lost no time grabbing some kit and getting down the very next day.