Monthly Report

Welcome to

Scroll down to follow our fishing adventures, as to where we go, who we meet, what they catch
                                                and what`s happening on the bank.

If you have any comments or fishing pictures that you would like to add please send them to
                                                mail@watersidediary.co.uk

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February: Noted for it`s Roach fishing (Latin: Rutilus rutilus) Record: 4lb 4oz, Keith Berry, Irish Lake,
           Top Baits: Casters, maggots, sweetcorn, worms, hemp, tares.  (Specimen weight: 2lb).
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                                    The Broadlands Lakes Bream Challenge!

For every Bream caught in the main lake and transferred to the match lake, by a bailiff, Broadlands
will donate £1 to one of three charities they support:
Carping for Cancer:  (Orchid Male Cancer Appeal).
Piam Brown Ward:   (Wessex Paediatric Oncology Centre).
Help for Hero`s:        (Help the wounded servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan and Iraq).

So if you bag a Bream on the main lake call Pete straight away on 07967076049, and a Bailiff will be
along to safely transfer it to the match lake, tell him your choice of charity and you will have supported
a great cause.

For more information ask John the `Monk` or Mervyn the `Mole` at the entrance hut, Please Help.


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What if you were ever lucky enough to catch and land that dream fish, the really big one,  one that you suspected
could put you in the record books, would you now what to do, after all it is most unlikely that we will have
the opportunely to catch that many record breaking fish, so knowing the correct procedures before the event
is paramount, if you don’t  after all that hard work of landing this fish and then not knowing what to do next
you risk losing that rare opportunity.
Below as promised in January`s `Monthly Report` is all the information needed to help make that dream come
true, Good Luck.  

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                   BRITISH RECORD FISH LIST
                    (Correct at February 3rd 2011)

Barbel
21 - 1 - 0   (2006)  Grahame King, Great Ouse, Adams Mill, Beds.
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Bitterling
0 - 0 -12    (1998)  Dennis Flack, Barway Lake, Cambridgeshire.
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Bleak
0 - 4 - 9    (1998)  Dennis Flack, River Lark, Cambridgeshire.
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Bream (Common Bronze)
19 - 10 - 0    (2005)  James Rust, Cambridgeshire stillwater.
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Bream  (silver)
2 - 15 - 0     (2009)  Phil Morton, Mill Farm, Pullborough, Sussex.
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Bullhead  (Miller`s Thumb)
0 - 1 - 0    (1983)  R Johnson, Green River, Nr Guildford, Surrey.
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Carp (mirror/common/leather)
67 - 8 - 0    (2008)  Austin Holness, Conningbrook, Nr Ashford, Kent.
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Crucian Carp
4 - 9 - 9     (2003)  Martin Bowler, Yateley Lake, Surrey.
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Catfish  (Bullhead, black)
1 - 3 - 1   (2001)   K Clements, Lake Meadows, Billericay, Essex.
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Catfish (Wels)
62 - 0 - 0    (1997)  Rich Garner, Withy Pool, Henlow, Beds.
NB. List closed 23rd October 2000 - No further claims considered.
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Chub
9 - 5 - 0   (2007)  Andy Maker, Southern stillwater.
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Dace
1 - 5 - 2   (2002)  Simon Ashton, River Wear, Co Durham.
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EEL
11 - 2 - 0  (1978)  Steve Terry, Kingfisher Lake, Nr Ringwood, Hampshire.
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Goldfish  (Brown)
5 - 11 - 8    (1994)  Dave Lewis, 6-acre Surrey stillwater pond.
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Grass Carp
44 - 8 - 0   (2006)   Phillip Kingsbury, Horton Church Lake, Berks.
NB. List closed 31st October 2007  -  No further claims considered.
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Gudgeon
0 - 5 - 0   (1990)   D H Hull, River Nadder, Sutton, Mandeville, Wilts.
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Minnow
0 - 0 - 13.5   (1998)   J Sawyer, Whitworth Lake, Spennymoor, Co Durham.
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Orfe  (Golden)
8 - 5 - 0    (2000)    Michael Wilkinson, Lymm Vale, Chesher.
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Perch
5 - 15 - 0   (2006)  Les Brown, Lake Nr Crowborough, Sussex.
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Pike
46 - 13 - 0   (1992)   Roy Lewis, Llandegfedd Reservoir, S. Wales.
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Walleye  (Pikeperch)
11 - 12 - 0    (1934)   F Adams, Delph, Welney, Norfolk.
NB. List closed 31st October 2007 - No further claims considered.
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Zander (Pikeperch)
21 - 5 - 0   (2007)   James Benfield, River Severn at Upper Lode.
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Pumpkinseed
0 - 14 - 2      (2003)   Bill Rushmer, Tanyards Fishery, Sussex.
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Roach
4 - 4 - 0   (2006)     Keith Berry, Northern Ireland stillwater.
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Rudd
4 - 10 - 0    (2001)   Simon Parry, Freshwater Lake, Co Armagh, NI.
4 - 10 - 0    (2001)   Simon Parry, Clay Lake, Co Armagh, NI.
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Ruffe
0 - 5 - 4     (1980)   R J Jenkins, West View Farm, Cumbria.
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Schelly  (Skelly)
2 - 1 - 9    (1986)   S M Barrie, Haweswater Reservoir, Cumbria.
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Stickleback  (3-spined)
0 - 0 - 4    (1998)   Dennis Flack, High Flyer Lake, Ely, Cambs.
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Stone Loach
0 - 0 - 13   (2005)   Geoffrey Green, Windmill Fishery.
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Tench
15 - 3 - 6   (2001)   Darren Ward, Sheepwalk Big Pit, Shepperton, Middlesex.
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Pictures Below, show Kevin White along with son Mike enjoying some great carp from Rookery Meadow
which is one of Kevins own lakes, Kevin took over Rookery Meadow some two years ago, the lake already
had a good head of mixed carp but Kevins restocking program has really put it on the map.

           For an update or more information on Rookery Meadow visit them on there Facebook page.

Picture Below: Kevin White

Picture Below: Mike White

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If you are a carp angler, you now that February can very often be one of the hardest months of the year, so
as there are not so many photo`s coming in I could used the opportunity to show you some of the  pictures
that hang in my fishing den of the grandchildren the wife and myself caught since we started this watersidediary.

Adam Blackman

Lewy Lewington

Jonathan Blackman

Stephen Blackman

Lyn Lewington

David Blackman

Tommy Lewington

Lew

Ben Blackman

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