White Springs
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Garnswllt Rd,
Pontardulais,
Swansea,
SA4 8QG,
Tel: (01792) 885699
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Havent been about lately to really manage the catch reports and still trying to get Gavin to post them up for me (hint hint Gavin 
) but it seems the fishing on the specimen has been quite slow lately for some and ok for others, guess it depends on the swim, Martin Matthews from Carmarthen has managed to pull out 2 * 32lb's and about another 19 or 20 fish from weights from 12- 25lb in a marathon session on the specimen lake of nearly a month, I think that he has been pulling fish out at the rate of about nearly 1 a day. Some of the youngsters I spoke to on the lake today told me that they missed one last night but had a few out on the previous day in the twentys mark. There are obviously a lot more fish that have come out including a few thirtys over the last few weeks but I just dont have the details and if Alfy is reading this then I still havent had the photos m8 if you have sent them.
Tim Bravery a newcomer to White Springs pulled out a few on the pleasure lake last weekend including a lovely 21.2 lb which was his new Pb so well done there.
The match and canal lakes have been fishing quite well despite the weather and the Pit which has been closed off for feeding is now reopened. I will try and make it back up the site in the next few days where i shall try and get a more comphrehensive report. I was actually due to fish there this weekend however something has come up as usual and stopped me from being able to do so. So I will try and rewrite this when i have more information.
Tight Lines Everyone#
Alex
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Aaron ..
I have however had the biggest Perch out of here ive ever seen 4lb 2oz last year and some very big Roach,every time i come here its Carp all day with the occasional roach or Skimmer and Perch,but mainly Carp,I personally would like to see more Tench come out and even the possibility of Crucian Carp,these two fish are by far the best fighting fish pound for pound and seem to be the forgotten species on Commercial fisheries these days,dont get me wrong i love catching Carp,but when your catching 10 to 20 small carp each visit it would be nice on occasions to see a large Green Lump come out or even several small crucians...
when i heard you were restockin with several small carp i was infact quite disappointed in a way as i feel theres already more than enough Carp in your lakes and felt that a high stock of Tench and or Crucians would have been a more attractive and appropriate fish...
hope i made sense and havnt offended anyone.
Its well documented and WS has some of the best waters around, hence why i posted the 3-5lb mark, not every fish of course grows to that size or at that growth rate, otherwise every lake would have forties but then not every human is 6ft 4 and 20 stone either however it doesnt mean that it cant happen it just isnt the common thing. Hope you get my point.
Im full of the head flu at the mo and the 70% comment it should have read that probably only 70% of the fish have been caught in the lake, or that about 30% of the fish hasnt. Silly me too much of a rush to get the comment in should have read it back first before i went offline
Still it is very suprising how many fish come out each year that havent been seen for a while, it is very common for a fish to be caught then not caught for some years and of course during that time they gain weight and can look completely different fish. Hope that makes sense to you
Any way thats just my opinion
I find it quite strange that you say 70% of the fish have never been caught? Surely such a popular water of WS size and the fact there are so many repeat captures leaves that a bit to question I'm afraid. If that is the case with the number of fish regularly caught there, then I would suggest your assumption of weight gains of up to 5lbs a year to be a bit unlikely with such a high density of fish per acre!
I won't let this put me off though as I'm really looking forward to coming down in June and I'll have to phone Vincent myself to book up a chalet.
Crikey that Martin chap must be minted! A whole month on there. I'm lucky to get an odd 24hr session in these days with work and my kids etc.
Look forward to meeting you all in June
Regards
Barney
Please bear in mind that 70% of the fish in the lakes have never been caught and that fish that were stocked years ago gain weight at about 3-5lb per year, so a 20lb stocked 5 years ago could easily now be a 35lb -45lb
These reasons would be why those storys havent been reported yet and the reason to why there are no pictures of them is that i have no pictures of them. Hope that explains to why the story is absent from the site..
barney says...
Hi, i was just wandering why there was nothing on here about the stocking of new big fish you have?
I would certainly like to here more about them and see a few pictures if anyone has any? I'm thinking of coming down on a holiday in June so I'd be really interested to here a bit about the stock.
Thanks
Barney
I would certainly like to here more about them and see a few pictures if anyone has any? I'm thinking of coming down on a holiday in June so I'd be really interested to here a bit about the stock.
Thanks
Barney
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