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lidoman
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Anybody fished here during the winter? I may be doing a session on there in the next few weeks and was just wondering if anyone has any info or tips.
Cheers

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ian H
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Fished it in 1986 mate caught my first 20y from there the day before xmas eve on strawberry flavoured chick peas, casting singles upto the trees ,used to fish it with Boo and Rob Chadwick ,think they had a fish kill a couple of years later on there,then the bloke who took it over re stocked it and it then was made a day ticket water and still is i think,a mate of mine new of some lads who went on there the other week they had a few fish out, a couple of them 20ys aswell .

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lidoman
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Yeh I have fished it once in 2004, my mate lost one in the snags cut him off immediately. Apparently its par for the course on there as most of the fish come from the snags but losses are common however as you say there are supposed to be a few 20's in there so its worth fishing

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kevw
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Fished it a lot through the winter up to 3 yrs ago, caught most times (especially my mate - up to 7 fish in a day). 12mm slow-sinkers fished on snowman rigs tight to the snags, no freebies. Most fish came from the first swim over the fence where there is a channel with snags either side, you've got to be inches off the snags though so take a few leads. Fished better when it was calm, reckon this was because casting tight was a lot easier.

Majority of fish were low-mid doubles, though I had a 24 about September time casting to the lamp on the road where the swans are fed. Went past a couple of weeks ago and was a few on, may be fishing ok.

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lidoman
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Can anyone give me a link to a map of the place as I've tried multimap but can't seem to find the water

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rigmaster
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I fished there when it first went day ticket in 1987 i think it was, did a couple of summers on there the biggest fish being a leather of 19.12lb also had a lot of fish in the 15-18lb bracket but could never land a twenty.A guy i used to fish there with never caught as many fish as me but seemed to nail the bigger fish at the time i was using pop ups allot and he used to use bottom baits richworth salmon supremes.The snags produced a lot of fish but also plenty were lost.I had a lot of fish from really close in in the night over hemp and the swim before any of the snags start aiming at the peoples garden on the far side used to produce some of the bigger fish at range.There was probably about six-nine twenty's in there when i fished it there was talk of upper twenty's but i never saw any fish of that size and when i did see a twenty on the bank it was one that i had seen before.It was a good runs water for doubles and i once had a 20+ fish catch in 36 hours from there.

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ronin
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I went down there last summer so no help on how it fishes during the winter i'm afraid, but talking to one of the baliffs he was saying if you can't get within inches of the snags on the far side your in with no chance of a take, he seemed to think it was down to the number of bait boats getting right in tight, not sure how much truth there is to that ...... i went over to the small pond on the back anyhow as i had my lad with me and wanted a bit of action which we got with half a dozen scraper doubles

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kevw
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For info Lidoman there is a cracking chip shop about 2 miles down the road, was one of the reasons we kept going there! Out of the gate and left towards Crewe, set back on the right.

Rigmaster, you would have fished there when Ken the farmer had it. What a character he was !

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lidoman
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Forget the chippie there is a cracking Chinese right over the road called 'Swan Lake' LOL The only time I have ever fished the place we had a chinky from here it was mega We also had to unhook a swan that my mate caught after it took his boilie from out by the snags We released it and where did it go again...yes right back to the baited area I wonder if they've learned yet

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kevw
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I've landed 2 swans on there, both hooked clean in the bottom jaw.
Also cast in one day and winged a goose as they flew over much to the horror of the family feeding the swans at the time. It hit the water at the top corner near the snags there right in front of them, must have had to reel it in over 120 yds. It's head went under as I pumped it in, then popped up again when I lowered the rod. Was ok once it was unhooked thankfully.

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TartanCarper
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Know a couple of lads who've had a few in Jan / Feb mate during days only.

Just watch out for the man-eating rats !!! Theres loads of litter during the warmer months & the bins are always over flowing - so the rats are on left over chinkys & stella etc. A lovely HNV diet !

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rigmaster
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Kevw yes he used to come round every morning for the money i think his name was ken tight as a ducks chuff used to cough alot.

he used to let me and a few other fish the nights on there for no extra and then other people started to enquire about night fishing and must must have thought i can make a few extra quid here and before long he started to charge for the nights aswell.

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