The Park Lake is just that - a free fishing lake in the middle.of a public park near to where I work. It's not more than an acre in size, and is predominantly a match fishing lake and somewhere people are likely to start out fishing and catch their first ever fish.
I'm going to be fishing here as one of a few venues this year for a number of reasons:
- it's quite close to work so allows baiting up before and after work, and in the summer shorter sessions whilst there is still some light.
- the water is pretty shallow so should fish a bit better during the colder months
- this is quite a highly stocked venue, so should be able to nick a bite most times
Whilst the fish won't be anything to break any world records with, it's always nice to have somewhere that you have a good chance to catch one or two in a session, and there may always be a surprise lurking around that will be a real bonus! From what I've heard most the fish only go to around mid doubles, but a few fish get caught each year between 20 and 30lb.
I have seen a couple of others that look like they are also targeting the carp, but as I said most people are either fishing with a pole, waggler or light feeder rod so I'm in the minority.
The tactics for this place (It's always dangerous to have a plan, but even more so to not have one!) is to keep a decent amount of bait going in on a regular basis - as I have to keep the costs of bait down like most others it'll be made up of various seed particles and pellets, with a few flavours added in. I fished a similar style venue when I was at university so I'm hoping that these will work just as well as they did then!
I'll keep you all posted!
If you missed the video that I posted from this venue a couple of weeks ago - check it out via this link!
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