The Green Green Grass of Lonsdale

Well, not only does the grass need cutting, but the Grass Carp are also awake!

John who is a regular visitor enjoyed his week in one of our lakeside cottages. During the week he was pleased to land his first ever Grass Carp.

The fish was estimated to weigh in the teens but not weighed has John was keen to get it back to the water without causing any added stress to the fish. - Well done John!!

Dad's Duo

Well, not to be out done Dad decided to cast a line on Saturday evening which resulted in him landing a lovely 23lb 8 oz Carp, followed by a 21lb 2 oz on Sunday evening. - Abley assisted by Mansell who was determined to have a bit of the limelight too!!!

112 of The Best!!

Pete & Paula Darlington gave the Secret Pool Carp a real caning. - Both achieved their P.B. Carp - Pete's being 24lb 5 ozs & Paula's a beautiful 19lbs.
Having booked the Secret Cottage they only failed to produce specimen fish on Tuesday & Wednesday when the weather played a hand being cold & windy.

Along with the 112lbs 9ozs of Carp they also managed to land a dozen pristine Chub. if you tackle these fish with lighter tackle they provide excellent sport if the Carp aren't feeding.

As well as The Secret Pool you have a further 2 pegs on The Willows where Pete caught a 10lb 2 oz Mirror. Though the smallest of their catch it was great to see this fish as it is evidence that our Simmonds Carp spawned shortly after they were stocked.

After their days fishing it was back to the Hot Tub for a relax & entertainment lounge to enjoy a clebratory drink!

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Secret Catches

Pete & Paula are enjoying their stay in the Secret Cottage.

To date they have caught Carp at 19lb, 17 1/2lb, & 12lb
along with some lovely Chub up to 2 1/2lb.

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This week sees the opening of the Secret cottage with a superb entertainment lounge, hot tub & sauna what more could you ask for after a day's fishing on your own private lake.

The carp are waking up!

Well I'd just said that spring was in the air!

The Tonk's boys called in for a quick chat this morning to let us know they're having a great time - and a real beano with the carp!
Their heaviest so far is 28lb's!

I'll let you know more when I do - here's hoping hoping they have some great pictures!!

Incidentally there's a couple of vacancies next week so if you're after a bragain last minute break - it seems like now is the time!

Tight lines all,

Em

xxx

EO - A bit of Natural History

As promised this post has been labeled 'EO' for Emma's Own.

I think inside every angler there is natural historian to some degree. And certainly in me I'm not sure which is stronger when I'm out and about.I'm stuck inside revising so of course everything out side has become infinitely more appealing!

So it's finally spring, and the weather, if we don't mention it too much, is really rather lovely.
There have been many signs to tell me that it's spring and I thought it might be nice to share some of them with you:

Firstly for the birds!This is our male tufted duck, who is waiting for his female to arrive to start nesting. I'm a bit worried about her to be honest, but I hoping maybe she's already well hidden and sitting tight to a nest. I'll be quite sad if she doesn't reappear as they are our only tufty's.

I've found my first mis-laid duck eggs and nests:Staying close to the water the toads and frogs are reappearing, and if you walk around the lakes at night quietly, listening for croaking if you investigate a reedy edge with a torch you're likely to see:
If you look during the day you'll see:
Now technically this if frogspawn rather than toad spawn, Toads spawn in lines, rather than in the globules of Frogs.

Moving a little further afield, and looking to the field behind Lonsdale you're likely to see:
This is one of the doe's of a family group of 4 who roam around in our area.
Sometimes very early in the morning you might see them inside the park.

If you want to see more photo's I upload some to flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/edrinkall/sets/72157623652304877/

I hope you've all had a lovely Easter, and I hope I'll see you soon!

Em

xxx

Update on the Secret Cottage and the Willows

Hey guys,

I've decided to do two updates today to split my stories.

This first one is all about the 'Secret Cottage' and the The Secret Pool and the Willows lake.
If you would like a brochure or to book the Secret Cottage you can call us on 07770825896 or 01228562655.

Last week I helped Dad stock some 'smaller' siblings for our resident monsters!

This is 'Bernie' who I decided to name after James Bernoulli who investigated the logarthmic spiral - which is the mathematical version of the spiral we find in nature.
If you click on the photo to see the bigger version and look at the scale in the center of her lateral line you'll see why!

In other news on the Willows I'm pretty sure I've seen what looks like roach topping as the weather has gotten out rather nicely this week. If I can excavate myself from the pile of papers I'm calling 'revision' (I have some final exams after Easter) then I might go out and test the theory!

Email from Jamie

Happy Easter all!

Just a quick update for now I'm afraid - as I'm revising for my first set of final exams!!

This is an email from Jamie Spence that we got yesterday:

"hi val/paul,
just an update for you about our fishing trip, despite the
seemingly never ending winter we are having we did quite well, had 3 carp
the biggest was 15lb and 3 tench biggest 6lb,also some big roach on
boilies and lost a fair few good fish as well,yet another great trips
fishing to lonsdale,
thanks very much"

Thanks for that and hopefully we'll see you again soon Jamie!

Tight lines all,

Em

PS Hoepfully will have a blog update with some photo's soon - those of you who are our facebook fans have had a sneak preview!