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Post by endpegger on Nov 30, 2010 8:58:03 GMT
to me this is a bit of a no brainer . you have a smashing looking lake that seems to have a few good fish in it and a load of sprats ,and the demon fish pike !!.then yoy have had no plan of how to manage it just buckets of fish the people at the time decided to put in and then put in again then put in again and it most certainly has not worked.this is imo the way to go. firstly you need to decide what sort of lake you are trying to create ,its called a plan mini estate commi silvers etc . then get in and get the opinions of some specialists who will advise how to procede .drain the lake take out all the snags ect replant with the plants they advise ,put back the fish you have agreed on sell of or move the fish you dont want and bingo you have what you want . to me a total drain down is the only answer to know exactly what you have in and what you put back .we have all heard about lakes that contain monster fish and when it is drained they are not there , pool bridge farm for eg the old coarse lake was said to hold 30lb carp think the biggest that came out was 18 lb .these are just my thoughts but i think getting experts to help and advise is not something anyone could disagree with .though i expect there will be some self proclaimed experts that will mmmmmm
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Post by knowbody on Dec 7, 2010 22:38:00 GMT
Cough............that got it.
Bloody jumper!
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Post by bizz on Apr 15, 2011 8:08:23 GMT
wots going on with the tree cutting.
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Post by leondodd on Apr 15, 2011 14:55:34 GMT
hi all, i fished sandwath for a couple of hours on wednesday, had 1 tench and 1 bream, for anyone who wanted to go for the small stuff it was alive with fish topping all over the place, it's no wonder the pike are thriving this place is stuffed with bait size fish! cheers, leon
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Post by colinatkinson on Feb 20, 2015 16:13:29 GMT
There's management and management...you can have too much of a good thing. Sometimes less is better, and cheaper too. If pike are an issue at Sandwath it begs the question, why are the small roach there in good numbers? Reading some of the posts about Sandwath Lake brought back memories of my misspent teen years in Church Fenton. I spent many a happy hour fishing Sandwath lake or the Brickyard Pond as us locals called it. As you probably all know it was a brickyard which was opened as far as I know in the early years of the 20th century and worked until the 1930's making bricks and drainage pipes. The watertable is very high and the clay pit had to be pumped constantly. I was told that they used to dig a hole with a road leading down into it before moving on to dig another hole. The "holes" not being worked would then fill with water and bushes would grow on the disused roads. Consequently the lake is a series of deep holes with shallow areas where the roads leading down used to be. In addition to the brickyard kiln there were two rows of workers houses that were demolished in the late 1950's. Prior to Leeds ASA buying the pond it was owned by a chap from Cawood who used to use the old buildings as storage and only visited the site on Sunday mornings so there was a fair amount of unauthorised fishing especially when Paddy had gone to the pub. In the early 1960's the pond was gin clear with rows of dead bushes marking out the shallower areas. The corner nearest Paddy's caravan was the shallowest area. I do not remember any weed growth, perhaps because the water was either too deep or too shaded by the dead bushes but the water was full of aquatic insects, in particular daphnia. It was full of small stunted pike that could be caught using almost anything that moved. There were rumours of monster pike & eels being caught in the past and I saw one pike that must have been 20lb plus but most were around the 1lb mark and a 2 pounder was the exception. As I remember, Leeds ASA did nothing to the water for around two years and then stocked it with a couple of thousand small roach and perch taken from the Bacon Factory pond at Sherburn in Elmet. This was an experiment because nobody expected them to survive the pike and nobody fished for them. I remember spinning for pike one day and saw a shoal of perch following the spinner and I began fishing for Perch and then roach. For around 10 years in the late 60's and early 70's it was a superb roach water with 10lbs in two hours being common and I remember two Leeds anglers managing almost 100lbs in a day between them (or so they said). The fish average around 8 to 10oz and were in prime condition with deep red fins and a blue sheen to their sides. The biggest I managed was 1lb 8oz . Bread flake was the best bait especially fished in the shallow end where Paddy fed the ducks. A few tench found their way into the pond, probably from Scarthingwell lake at Barkston Ash which was full of them. In the late 1970's decent tench were being caught and I have heard it said that it is/was one of the best tench waters in Yorkshire if you fish it right. I am no expert and cannot comment on the various theories as to what is wrong with the water today but it seems that the decline started with the clearing out of all the bushes, perhaps overstocking and trying to turn the pond into another carp puddle. Dave Tipping described the pond in its golden years in one of his books. Given the name Briggs Pit it also has an excellent drawing of Paddy on one of his better days.
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Post by gcb on Feb 20, 2015 19:13:53 GMT
Thanks for sharing that with us Colin. I was lucky enough to share a few hours with Dave on the Nidd chub fishing. His books are a good read. Problem is I've read them all. If you are reading this dave - time for another?
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