Suffolk Water Park

With a couple of days off work this week visited The Suffolk Water Park fishing both on lures and dead baits, Day 1 Saw Ian on peg 3 in the back bay with fellow Fishery Management Consultant Chris, Ian had Pike of 13lb 4oz, and 13lb and Chris with Pike of 17lb, 8lb and 6lb respectively. And for Ian the loss of a very very big fish in snags, I would say what it was estimated at by several anglers on the day but he's gutted enough as it is!

13lb 4oz Suffolk Water Park Resident.

Day 2 saw, both myself a Ian Fishing and with so many carp anglers on the lake we the first available swims were peg 9, and 10 in the back bay, unfortualtly well away from where the roach are heavy in numbers, Ian produced fish of 4lb and 9lb 8oz and the loss of a low double after it went arial and shook the single barbless hook out. And myself not so well after missing multiple strikes on Abogast Surface lures and our own Surface Pops I switched to dead baits and also lost a very good fish in snags and a good double due to hook pulls again.

Recently Ian has been using single hooks on dead bait traces and these are offer very good hook holds in the scissors when combined with smaller dead baits just hooked through the lips, than i use on the venue and is well worth a go and make unhooking fish a piece of cake I will say my losses ocurred on convention trebles which is somewhat unusual and something which has never happened before, but new water, new issues to solve I guess and these fish really know where the snags are and with the water so shallow they run, and run and run! and give a excellent account for themselves.

The Suffolk Water Park is a water I would recommend for anyone want to pursue specimen fish it offers everything and has a excellent resturant onsite. SWP offers pike fishing all year around but with only lures in the summer months, which is great sport with Pike reported to high thirties in here and numerous 20's each season, and available on day ticket! I would recommend anyone wanting to lure fish here go mid week as more swims to wander around are available due to the excellent carp fishing here the place is rammed at the weekend, and getting a swim is a task in its own which offers carp to 40lb Plus, with Roach and Rudd to 3lb+ and Tench and Bream well into double figures, making it a good all round venue. We will definatley get a few more sessions in on here.

Perch Fishing - Weybread Fishery

After a odd hot spell in early October with temperatures to 29c and then dropping drastically to 12c in just two days here in suffolk, made the fishing somewhat challaging, I for a couple of days I picked Weybread Fishery, which is a local fishery to me after some large perch, the best from the fishery last year almost banging on the door at 5lb's and well know for plenty of fishing in the 2-3lb bracket, with plenty of pike present also which provides good sport on both lures and deadbaits.

I picked the venue due to it provides good depths on average 12-13ft, and had hoped with the bright sunshine, that the perch would take refudge in the depths, but after thrashing the water to a foam, and trying every lure in the box i had little to show for my efforts other than a small 5lb jack on a Crackel Perch HD95 Sinker. bounced along the bottom of the lake. I had suspected at the time it would be somewhat difficult given the heat on the day, and the weed growth in the lake still present, but knowing what a good stock of fish the lake holds, i will persue the perch there again when the weather has cooled.

Lee