12 September 2011

"FIELDS FARM FISHERY"


Recently I have been visiting this fishery and have experienced some excellent sport! if you have read some of my older posts you will no doubt be aware that I enjoy match fishing. Having said that I am not one of these modern day anglers who seem to think that if they don't catch a ton of carp every time they fish then it's not worth the effort.

Naturally I have fished a number of matches on this complex and found it to be a very balanced fishery in terms of the fish you catch. For instance I have personally witnessed matches on average being won with 30lbs of cruceons, 27lbs of roach, 30lbs of skimmer bream, and 40 to 50lbs of carp, I believe the fishery record stands at 52lbs there are also plenty of gold fish hybrids in amongst a lot of catches which makes it more appealing because you never really know what your going to catch!.

There are to my knowledge four pools on the complex all pools which have approximatly the same depth and are slightly deeper than the average commercial for instance six to seven feet deep. I believe this has proved to be beneficial to fish survival over the course of the severe winters we have experienced most recently! when some commercial fisheries lost allot of fish. "As a result of this the fish are clearly very healthy and fight like tigers"

A number of plus factors is that the pools are well established, you can use all methods access to your chosen spot is mostly done by car with few walks involved! they don't have an endless list of bait bans like some commercials do, and you can take and use your own bait.

When some commercials insist that you must buy their bait, which means "you pay them to fish and also pay them to feed their fish".

This is a sore point with me if their argument is this is to protect their fish, my argument is surely bait manufacturers don't produce bait that would be harmfull to the fish! and surely anglers are not going to poison the fish after all they want to catch them!! By all means stipulate the quantity of bait that can be used and keep on selling bait but don't insist that you buy it from them to my mind this is wrong.

However if you are interested in paying a visit to this fishery here are some things you may want to know the fishery is is situated within the idillic Cheshire countryside just of the the Congelton road M6 Motorway junction 17 heading towards Sandbach post code CWII4TE.

They are open 7days a week 7am to 9pm .

Adult -Day Tickets are £6
Adult - Evening Tickets £3 (from 4pm onwards)
OAP/junior Day Ticket £4
OAP/Junior - evening Ticket £3

I believe these prices to be very reasonable by today's standards as it costs enough on bait these days let alone !!

The fishery is owned and well managed by a very pleasant chap called Chris Thornhill, Who is an angler himself, who I hope he will forgive me for saying this but has a habit of saying yes! what more do you want why not give it a go?or take a look at the web site before you go I feel sure you will be pleasantly supprised. Now I am retired I am going there again this week pleasure fishing for those cruceons.

Tight Lines !!