Beaver Farm Fishery. Major’s Lake. July 27th, 2003.

Hawthorne AC club match.

Well another club match today at Beaver Farm just outside East Grinstead. There are a number of lakes on site, catering for pleasure, match and specimen anglers. Today we were fishing Majors Lake, not the match lake (which is Maze Lake). It’s supposed to hold a bit of everything.
True to Hawthorne AC form on arrival in the car park we were greeted with drizzle and a cool wind. Well into the draw bag and it’s peg 18 for me, so off to get set up and a pleasant surprise with 2 beds of lilies on the inside and another couple to attack on the far bank.

Peg 18…..

At the all-in it was in with the pole alternating between the 2 inside lily beds. Unfortunately this only produced a few blade skimmers, which were attacked by jack pike if not landed in double quick time.

Well at least the drizzle had stopped and the sun had appeared, so tiring of doing battle with the jacks, I decided to try over with a cage feeder filled with pellet and 2 pellets hair rigged on the hook.Well this didn’t exactly set the world alight either, Indeed word had gone round that the whole lake was fishing badly, but it did produce a better stamp of skimmer to keep something going in the net.
Half an hour to go and another light pull on the tip and OOOOOH!!!!!!!! this isn’t a skimmer. Luckily with a bit of open water in front, I was able to take my time and 10mins later a nice Mirror Carp of about 8½lbs was safely in the net leaving just enough time for another couple of skimmers before the final whistle.

When the scalesmen arrived the total came to 26lbs dead, which was good enough for 3rd place on the day.

Back at the car park, and there was just enough time to flog £50 of raffle tickets for Elvington . So that was it for another day, Next stop is at ELVINGTON  Roll on the Weekend.