Lez had an amazing morning on the fly lake! The choice to get on the bank early in an attempt to beat the heat of the day definitely paid off!
2 Spartics landed, one being 4lb+!
A party of visiting anglers certainly enjoyed some great sport on the well stocked fly Lake
The lads decided to get to the fishery early in order to beat the heat and what a result they had! All four reached their 6 fish limit with the biggest of the day being 6.8lb! Alongside this slab was another 6lber and 5 fish over 5lb!
Below is a post from Bulldog Fisherys near Barnstaple who appear to have been victim to the scurge of keyboard warriors on Social media. The internet and social media spread gossip and false stories rapidly and those who fail to catch often invent the craziest of tales to explain their lack of success. I once fished a lake where nobody caught and was told that the water had been spiked with soap to put the fish off the feed! There are a thousand and one reasons why fish are not caught and the vast majority are simply bad angling.
Clearing up a few rumuors a post from Nigel Early at Bulldog
Good morning everyone! It has come to our attention that a couple rumours regarding our carp lake have been circulating the local anglers. Now, we don’t usually pay any attention to the general gossip/drama that inevitably takes place in the industry. However, we have now received contact from several concerned anglers asking what happened. So to avoid having to explain countless times we’d like to set the record straight…
Word has been spread that whilst we drained/netted the lake to extract the bream last month, we had some sort of disaster resulting in a lot of fish dying or not being returned to the lake. THIS IS TOTAL RUBBISH!
Whilst the work was taking place, the only issue we encountered was that the lake didn’t drain out quite as planned, a definite inconvenience at the time but far from a disaster.
We can say with 100% certainty that every carp removed from our lake was returned with ZERO casualties! With the exception of 5 fish that we decided wasn’t up to the standard we wanted for the lake. These 5 fish are being replaced as of November this year.
Please feel free to share this post as much as possible to help squish these daft rumors that I can only imagine have come from an industrial size game of whispers!
We look forward to the constant progress the fishery is on! And can’t wait to see what the future holds
Tight lines everyone
( Above) Ongoing improvements
The latest twenty
(Below) there’s plenty of trout between 2lb and 5lb being caught from the trout lakes.
Bulldog fisheries have officially been granted permission to stock spartic & tiger trout along side their rainbows & browns!
With a number were released straight into the fly lake ready for this weekend’s anglers, the remaining fish have been placed into the stock ponds to be grown on for trickle stocking through the coming months.
Gerry Tyzack who ran Kingfisher Tackle for in Barnstaple visited Bulldog recently and enjoyed some great sport. Gerry has been a visitor to the fishery for many years taking visitors to the lake for instruction when he was running the shop that sadly shut its door close to twenty years ago.
and what a result they had! All four reached their 6 fish limit with the biggest of the day being 6.8lb! Alongside this slab was another 6lber and 5 fish over 5lb!
