Derek
I have been in the wareham club for over 25 years and my father has
been for even longer(Phil Chinery)We have both served time on the
commitee.It is still a great little club with some great waters.One of the
few as you say to have wild english carp in.
The big problem is two of their lakes have loads and loads of big bream in,
and those slimey buggers pick up all my bait intended for carp. I thing you
must have to catch 100 bream to 1 carp.perhaps I should change my tactics ,
any idea how to target carp when there are lots of bream in a water?

The silent woman lakes are near the pub but for directions look on the
website-

www.silentwomenlakes.co.uk


"Bryan Hall" wrote in message
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Any idea whereabouts the lake is, and the size of the fish?

"Derek.Moody" wrote in message
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In article , DAVE
CHINERY
wrote:
Has anybody heard about a new fishery near Wareham in Dorset?
It is called Silent Woman Lakes and they claim to have very large Carp
to

I know that as a pub name - anywhere near I wonder?

45lb, however they want to charge

If they have them they're probably illegal imports. If you want some
interesting fishing in the area then the Wareham club has (used to
have?)
access to a few old claypits that hardly anyone fished. Some of them
have
lovely wildies - real fish shaped carp - around the 3-15 lb mark that
are
great fun to catch although the bankside conditions are a bit jungly.

It it me or is it just madness charging prices like that.I do not mind

In a couple of years the imported carp will have gone back or died and
the
owner will either have gone bust or had a rethink. If the water's of
any
intrinsic interest I expect it will be available for rather less.


do you have to be made of money to
go carp fishing these days??

No.

You can go carp fishing within easy reach of Wareham for, er, let's make
a
rough calculation:

Licence 23.00
Club membership 43.00

Sufficient tackle including net 100.00

Bait, per trip: 0.50

So lets say 68 trips for 200.00 or less than 3.00 per trip excluding
transport, food and drink.

If you allow (say) four hours per trip you should get a couple of
hundred
or
more fish and get it below a quid per fish and under 20p/pound.

The second year will be cheaper.

Cheerio,

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