Welcome to the Updates For April 2015 – Ivy Lodge Carp Fishery catch reports and updates blog. We hope the blog will interest you and help to keep you up to date with what’s happening on the banks.
All Members please feel free to send us your pictures and catch reports and we’ll try to add them to the next monthly reports blog. As well as your reports we’ll be contributing our own catches from sessions too.
Please send your reports in an email to ivylodgecarpfishery@yahoo.co.uk with the email subject “Pictures” and add your pictures as JPEG attachments. We’ll do the rest…..

ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!

All leaders of any description are now banned including Korda safe Zone. All lead clips other than the original design where the swivel can easily pull free from the clip are also banned. Guru X safe feeders (the elasticated ones) are now banned. Please make sure all your rigs are safe and don’t be afraid to ask if you are not sure of anything. All anglers must have an unhooking mat in their swim (it’s not hard to carry one down) no fish should be placed on the ground for any reason regardless of size or species.

THE SUN SHINES ON IVY LODGE

April got off to a flying start with a warm and sunny Easter weekend (there’s a first). With the first few warm days of the year the fish started to wake up with the tench starting to show and carp cruising in the afternoon sunshine. Good fishing was had by all with the most of the bites coming early in the morning or in the evening with the mid-day period being very warm and bright most of the fish were up cruising in the sunshine (who can blame them). The carp were well up for floaters in the warm evenings with lots of anglers catching good fish off the top. This is an exciting although sometimes extremely frustrating way to catch carp as some of our members found out judging by the names they were calling the carp usually starting with B####### and ending How the F### did I miss that lol. (Please refrain from using this sort of language as the young carp have started to repeat it).

We have a new 11mm floating carp pellet in stock for surface fishing only these or pedigree chum mixers are to be used (we would prefer you to use the carp pellet).

Unfortunately the frost and cold winds returned at the end of the month which has slowed things a bit due to the water temperature dropping. The fish have still been active though with good catches still being reported. Let’s hope that’s not the summer over and we have some more good weather soon.

Reported catches include Conrad McCaleenon 14+ carp off the top.

Willy McCaleenon 14+ carp and tench.

Roy Gregg and daughter Annie with over 30 carp between them.

Frankie 19 carp tench and bream.

Mark Prigent with 32 + carp tench and bream.

Derek Curran 22 carp and tench

Sam (Fairbrass) Curran with 9 carp and golden tench.

Stephen Smyth 19 carp.

Barry Gorman 27 carp tench and bream.

Jonny Nesbitt 16+ carp and bream.

Gary McCoo 20+ carp and tench.

Niiiiaaaallllll O’Hanlon 25 carp and tench (in his pyjamas).

Andy Dirom 14 tench and carp on the pole.

Craig Foulis with 36 carp and tench.

Niiiiiiaaaalllllll And Darren Discuss Tactics (lunch!) Over The Easter Weekend

Sam Curran With A 4 lb Common

Well Done Sam Curran Demonstrating The Correct Way To Unhook A Carp!

Daniel Walsh With A Lovely Common

John Walker With An Ivy Lodge Bream

John Walker With A 2 lb Tench On The Feeder

Davy Walker With A Lovely Marked 3 lb Ghostie On The Pole

Charlie Black 3 lb Common

Chris Lavery With His First Ghostie

John Oliver With A Cracking Ghost Carp

Barry And Cody Gorman With A PB 7 lb 10 oz Common

Mark Prigent With A 7 lb Common

Poacher…..!

Mark Prigent With A Golden Tench

David Hatton with a 4 lb mirror

See you on the bank!