A couple of short sessions

No matches to report , we had a family funeral on Thursday, and the shop was short staffed on Sunday so I went in to help out.
So Judith and me decided on a short session on huntstrete with bridge pool being the lake of choice as the f1,s and small carp are generally very obliging, we sat on peg 18 and just set up one rig to fish down each margin with banded pellet over hard pellets, I had a fish first out in, an f1, and that was the last time I fished as Judith jumped into the box and was soon getting a succession of decent f1,s and small carp.

In the background was Paul barnfield and Chris ollis who had 50 and 25 lb of silvers respectively, also it was good to see Jimmy norris again who was also having a good day further up the lake, I did manage a bit of fishing when the rain started as Judith went and say in the van, it was still a bite a chuck, but I packed up before I got to wet,

I was back out but on my own on Sunday evening as Judith was off at a family meal, so I went and say on peg 31, it's 16 mtrs to the island and it has a nice margin, so again only one rig which would do for across and down the margin.
I began feeding with a catty across to the island and it was really good, feeding 4,s  and fishing a banded 8, I had a fish nearly every put in across by the island , small carp of various sizes and scale patterns up to about 5lb , the picture below is of a small slightly linear scaled mirror which was the best looking one of the session.

And the f1,s  are really nice looking fish, with lots of them now going over 2lb, with some possibly approaching 3lb.

I had been feeding 6,s down the margin and had a few better fish down there towards the end, with the biggest probably just about 10lb.

So two good sessions on a lovely fishery, there are three lakes at the fishery, bridge is probably the most prolific, but withy is also very good with a bigger average size to its carp with fish to 20lb , and both bridge and withy have large heads of bream and roach with bridge also having quite a few tench in.
The main lake is also popular with the speci carp anglers as there are fish over 40lb ,s swimming about with several 30,s and plenty of 20,s , there can't be many club waters around with fishing like that available on an open membership, also the main lake is fishing really well for good skimmers and reasonable bream which respond well to micro pellet in a bit of groundbait with a soft pellet fished over the top, bathampton have a nice venue with something for everyone, even pike anglers are catered for as there are plenty of  pike in there but more of a fun size with a fish over ten pounds being a nice fish,  adult membership is £40 and there is an additional day ticket at a cost of £4 available in veals fishing tackle .