pen-y-clawdd fishery
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 8:22 pm
I wangled a half day at work today so visited a farm fishery near Raglan Castle. Pen-Y-Clawdd is a working farm which diversified into a coarse fishery about fifteen years ago. I first visited it just after it had been stocked with thousands of tiny Carp. On my next trip I caught dozens of the titchy things on maggots. Over the years it has expanded and now has three pools. One a mixed pool ideal for youngsters, the other a moat type pool with a large island and the third is a Carp and Tench pool. This third one was the one I visited today. 
The weather was very warm but overcast and muggy (just the way I like it), but it got progressively hotter as the clouds broke up and blue skies and sunshine made it uncomfortably hot.
Luckily, within five minutes of casting out a freelined piece of breadflake, I caught my first carp. It weighed just over eleven pounds but I would have sworn it was bigger. (Must get my old spring balance calibrated). In my haste to get my camera out of it's case, it jumped out of the landing net and made its escape.
Next I tried a single grain of sweetcorn and caught an ugly little bugger with a stub nose.
My third and final fish came soon afterwards, again on corn.
The fish started to rise and feed off the carp in the shade of the trees and although I had two further bites on the bottom (one missed, the other hook failed), I was starting to burn up so packed up and headed for home.
This feisty little moorhen took offence when a duck got close to him and attacked it.
The reason I didn't try floating crust was it is against the rules. The lady owner checks that all rules are followed to the letter but some are just daft.
These are ok;
No groundbait
no nuts
no boilies
no keepnets
but these make no sense to me at all
no meat, including luncheon meat
no hemp
no floating crust
no hook over size 12 to be used.
Still, it's a nice place, despite the Stalag rules.
Sorry about the picture quality.
JB
The weather was very warm but overcast and muggy (just the way I like it), but it got progressively hotter as the clouds broke up and blue skies and sunshine made it uncomfortably hot.
Luckily, within five minutes of casting out a freelined piece of breadflake, I caught my first carp. It weighed just over eleven pounds but I would have sworn it was bigger. (Must get my old spring balance calibrated). In my haste to get my camera out of it's case, it jumped out of the landing net and made its escape.
Next I tried a single grain of sweetcorn and caught an ugly little bugger with a stub nose.
My third and final fish came soon afterwards, again on corn.
The fish started to rise and feed off the carp in the shade of the trees and although I had two further bites on the bottom (one missed, the other hook failed), I was starting to burn up so packed up and headed for home.
This feisty little moorhen took offence when a duck got close to him and attacked it.
The reason I didn't try floating crust was it is against the rules. The lady owner checks that all rules are followed to the letter but some are just daft.
These are ok;
No groundbait
no nuts
no boilies
no keepnets
but these make no sense to me at all
no meat, including luncheon meat
no hemp
no floating crust
no hook over size 12 to be used.
Still, it's a nice place, despite the Stalag rules.
Sorry about the picture quality.
JB
