Wigeon

Mallard

Teal

Wigeon

18 pegs

The Wigeon once formed part of the Mallard. Now the Wigeon has been carved out of the Mallard and it forms a canal-style lake situated next to Brailsford Brook. Wigeon is 15 metres wide and runs to a depth of up to 6 feet.

Fish

  • Larger Mirror and Common Carp

  • F1s also present

  • Silver Fish including Skimmers, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Gudgeon and Perch

Tactics

In the summer, target larger carp in the margins with sweetcorn over groundbait or use paste as a hook bait. Larger silver fish can be caught shallow with maggots or casters.

In the winter, target the far bank which is lovely and overgrown with bomb and bread (seasonal winter use only) or with waggler and pole using simple maggot tactics.

Bait

  • Casters

  • Maggots

  • Pellets

  • Groundbait

  • Bread (seasonal use only, please read our rules)

  • Sweetcorn

  • Paste

Teal

18 pegs

Teal is the smaller of the 3 lakes at this end of the venue but is also one of the most popular. There is a bar down the middle of the lake with a depth of 1 foot over the bar down to 5 foot at the deepest part either side.

Fish

  • Mirror and Common Carp

  • F1s and Goldfish and Brown

  • Silver Fish including Skimmers, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Gudgeon and Perch

Tactics

In the summer, fish in the shallow water with pellets on either the pole or a little method feeder with micro pellets and 4mm wafters.

During the winter, target the deeper water with maggots or micro pellets and expander pellets.

Bait

  • Casters

  • Maggots

  • Pellets

  • Groundbait

  • Sweetcorn

  • Paste

Mallard

34 pegs

Mallard is the largest of the 3 lakes, situated in the middle of Wigeon and Teal and has a large rectangular bay at one end. It offers a canal style lake with a bar running down the middle around 16m-18m from either bank.

Depths range from 2 foot on the bar to 7 foot in the middle either side.

Fish

  • Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp

  • F1s (including Alan the Goldfish)

  • Silver Fish to include Roach, Rudd, Skimmers, Bream, Perch

  • Tench and Brown Goldfish

Tactics

The most popular tactic on this lake in the summer is to fish shallow with pellets. Also target the margins with micro pellets and sweetcorn.

Another great tactic is the method feeder cast on top of the bars with micro pellets and wafter as hook bait.

In the winter, find 5 foot depth and fish micro pellets and maggots to keep bites coming all day.

Bait

  • Maggots

  • Pellets

  • Casters

  • Sweetcorn

  • Groundbait

  • Paste