Catch Report written by Steve Hackers of the Yorkshire Carpers

Lee – Hooters – DNA baits Ocean X
Paul W  – Chimney
Shackers – Summer Bay – DNA baits S7
Skippy  – Platform
Pete – Stumpy– DNA Fairview specials.
Mark C – Mile

We arrived at the lake early on Friday to find a couple of anglers still on the lake, We had a chat with a couple of the anglers on to find it had been a slow week. We waited until there time was up and headed round to our swims. Lee was only fishing the day then going home as he had plans however would be returning early Saturday for the rest of the session. Spending the day stalking Lee bagged a colossal looking mid double common as he wanted which was 18lb 8oz. The rest of the day was slow and the next action was at 3am Saturday morning when Shackers landed the smaller of the white tip commons at 13lb 6oz. Again the action remained slow and with the boiling hot weather alot of the guys were hovering around the pads watching and trying to stalk a take from one of the wary carp. 2pm and Shackers started to receive some line bite indication on the productive rod, Sitting on his hands around 14:30 the alarm blistered into life! I lifted into the fish and it boiled on the surface 20 yards to the left of the spot but I couldn’t see what it was. After taking more line I’m thinking this could be one of the resident sturgeon :/ following a hard fight in open water the fish hits the deck and slowly plodded towards my feet. I got the fish to the pads 8yards out then the fish powered back out some 15 / 20 yards! I got the fish back into the pads and I then see a huge tail of a carp surface! I can see it’s a BIG mirror and I’m thinking it could be the big one (but I don’t want to jinx it) the carp holds itself in the lilies for a few more minutes however it then rolls fully on the surface and my nervous hopes come true as I see a Large C shaped scale appear! The 5 lads stood around me all say the same and my legs start to shake! I carefully tease the carp towards the net and she hits the spreader Block! I stand over the net and look at this huge carp at my Feet and everyone screams… GET IN!! I then get everything sorted and weigh her at 33lb 4oz smashing my PB by 7lb! A few shots on the bank then using the great weather I get in to have a few more shots and release her! Later that day pete gets a take in Stumpy and plays the fish into find it was a nice double figured common which ended the spell of carp.

The lads are back on at the end of October for their final session of the year.

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Shackers – Hooters  - DNA baits S7
Karl N – Chimney
Lee – Summer Bay – DNA baits Ocean X
Skippy  – Platform
Seb – Stumpy
Pete – Mile  – DNA Fairview specials.

Another slow week but the Yorkshire carpers manage to wangle a couple out. Karl has a strange take on his right hand rod and lands a Common  Shackers loses one from his margin spot at 2am Saturday 10^th Lee 16lb 8oz scaley mirror 2pm 10^th Lee low double common 4pm 10^th 10pm Saturday 10^th Shackers loses another carp from his Margin spot. 4am Sunday 11^th Skippy manages a stunning low double mirror. 11:15am Sunday 11^th Shackers saves a blank with a cracking 18lb common.

Photos added to the Gallery – here

This was a quiet weekend for the lads however a couple of carp were caught. Lee struck first blood with a nice mid double common from his margin spot. 28^th August 2pm. The next to catch is Paul Clark with a 14lb 8oz common, Early Sunday morning Pete had a small common.
No more fish until Early hours Monday when Pete had a stunning 19lb imitation ghosty common aswell as clarkey having a 16lb common. Shackers managed to scrape a last minute carp off the surface at 10lb.

Friday 26^th-29^Th August.

Lee – Hooters – DNA baits Ocean X
Shackers – Chimney – DNA baits S7
Skippy – Summer Bay
Pete – Platform
Paul Clark – Stumpy – DNA Ocean X and Fairview specials.
Andy – Mile

Pictures added to Gallery so check them out here

My own fishing on Fairview has usually been of a good standard although the last two sessions have not been that way. Leaving a 48 hr session as they started to spawn is one thing but then turning up in hurricane Fairview is another. After a battle to secure the bivvy under the chimney my old man set up in hooters whilst i sorted my rods out. A quick missed run from the pads towards the garden was the only event that happened until 7 o clock this morning when my dads middle rod, fished into open water at 40 yards ripped away and after a hell of a struggle with it twice locking up solid in the pads he landed a superb pb common of 22.8oz . After no sleep due to the wind it more than made up for it. I have put the picture online in the gallery.

Jack Gill spent a four night session on his  Fairview. when he arrived at the lake on Sunday afternoon around 4 o’clock Irv was there to greet him with my bait OCEAN X. bait he had never used before so he was new to it.  Fortunately peg 20 was free, (as Jack  had hoped it would be) and it had not been fished all weekend, on that note jack got the gear on the barrow and got round there.  As he arrived at the peg there were fish moving up and down the right hand side in the pads , straight away rods where out and set up, After slowly introducing a little bit of bait, fishing for a bite, which paid off when he landed the first of what was three twentys.

1st 24lb 8oz mirror

2nd 22 lb common

3rd 21 lb commom

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We are having little in the way of catch reports at the moment although new pictures have been added to the gallery from some anglers. Phil Myers sent a few pictures in from some of the trips he has had. Phils a regular who travels all the way from St Helens. Also a picture of a stunning common which fell to Scott Lambert has been added. Keep the catch reports coming in guys. thanks.

The fish have finished spawning and Paul Wilkinson was on for 4 nights. He got there monday to find the pegs he wanted to fish full till dinner. Paul grabbed some dog biscuits and his stalker rod and went an sat in Irvs garden to see if he could spot any fish, after about 5 minutes he saw a couple a couple so threw a couple of biscuits near them and one of the fish went straight for it so he free lined a couple ov biscuits out and after 10 minutes the same fish came up and nailed them. The fish gave Paul a good scrap and turned out to be a lovely looking common. On the scales it went 14lb bang on and it was a great start as he had not even got his gear in my peg yet. When dinner time came the lads went and Paul dropped in the mile swim and did alright. He managed 4 fish of a 4lb mirror , 12lb 2 oz mirror ,17lb 4oz mirror and an 11lb 8oz aswell as losing 2. Come thursday dinner time Paul packed up amd had all my gear round in garden ready to go when he noticed the amount of fish over on chimney side and in garden so he asked Irv if he could stay on a extra night and jumped straight in the chimney and up the gear went again nothing really happend till half 1 in the morning when his rod tore off and Paul played the fish for about 10 minutes. As it was edgeing its way towards the net when the hook pulled out. Nothing else happend after that but Paul wasmore than happy. None of them big ones  came out but all good looking fish all the fish and bites apart from the one off the top came on dna maltx red tipped with a piece of dna candy stick. You can see all of Pauls pictures in the gallery section or click here

Well the hot sun on friday certainly saw the fish pairing and grouping up and by the time the sun had set and the temperature had dropped the fish went balistic and got to spawning big time. We were on on friday night and we never slept due to the crashing and thrashing in the pads and all around the lake, it was fantastic to sit up in the early hours with a brew watching some truly awesome big carp. Needless to say the rods were pulled in and they were left to it.

Chimney – Sebo
Hooters – Lee Fisher
Platform – Skippy
Summer Bay – Steve Hackers
Stumpy – Me
Mile – Pete Newell

Arriving  in the afternoon and the lads were set up and in for about tea time. Hackers had a real nice scally Mirror at 21:30 at 13lb 10oz, It was quiet for the rest of the 1st night and day except for a couple of jack pike we caught just messing about for the pike. Hackers then had a PB common at 21lb 12oz at 05:15 on sat morning, he was buzzing and seemed to have the fish feeding well on his baited area. Lee fisher then had a small common on the Zig on sat evening from hooters at 8lb 2oz. Next to catch was Seb and it was his 1st fish out of fairview and a PB common at 22lb 8oz that was from the chimney at 16:00. The wind was blowing a hooly all weekend into chimney from summer bay. The fun really started at 02:00 on sunday morning when sebs alarms screamed into life and  it absolutly ripped off just a one toner! he was into a decent fish and when lee landed it for him he anounced it was Bling. A real target fish for most people who fish fairview!! . In 2 fish he had broke both his PBs, thats what fairview can do!!!!! Bling weighed 29lb on the nose and looked really well. Seb was buzing and a few  of them stayed up and cracked open a can or 2,  Steve Hackers had another fish off his baited spot, a nice common of 17lb 12oz. His swim was really fishing well and he was keepiing the bait going in consistently and keeping the swim working well for him. Skippy had a run from the platform swim  on his zig at about 05:15 Lee once again did the honors with the net and once again anounced it was Bling! unbelievable for a fish that usually comes out once or twice a year! Pictures taken and care take when releasing her to make sure she wasn’t too stressed and Andy was off to work. Hackers produced again at 10:30 on sunday morning a new PB common by 2 ounces! he had a 21lb 14oz common off the same baited area. Seb then had another fish off the chimney just as Andy returned from work, another known named and rare fish known a s goggle eye, he had this at 19lb 8oz, 2 lb heavier than it was last out last year. which is good for a old fish. Hackers then produced again this time from a different tactic and area, a really nice scally mirror of 13lb 12oz! Andy  then managed to get a take from stumpy, only to see a sturgeon raise its head so not the carp i was hoping for, but a bend in the rod all the same. Hackers produced another off the baited area at 00:30 on mon morning in the shape of another PB common, this time 23lb 10oz, we thought it might be the warrior fish but we arent certain it looked a little dark in colour for it steve said. Then to top off what was a brilliant weekend, at 04:00 hour on monday morning Skippy got what can only be decribed as a screamer, there was no build up or little knocks to stir him the buzzer just screamed and didnt stop till he picked up the rod. it had ran that far it set petes buzzer off in the mile! Andy walked round to aid him with the net! the fight was long and the fish stayed really deep! it had alot of power and when i saw a flash of a long mirror i knew which fish it was we finally managed to get it in the net and  told him it was C Scale he was Buzzing! he had had 2 fish all weekend 1 Bling and the other C Scale who weighed in at 32lb on the nose! Seb managed to get another at 07:00 on mon morning he had anothe nice common one of the white tipped ones at 21lb 11oz. This is a weekend to remember for 3 of us the 2 most targeted fish in the lake in 1 session for Skippy. The Yorkshire carpers had a great session and top angling from all the lads who caught and the one who didn’t! was a unforgetable weekend for some and it shows what can happen at fairview there really is some cracking fish in that lake!