Welcome to the August – September 2012 Ivy Lodge Carp Fishery catch reports update 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 catches 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…..

August was another great month at Ivy Lodge with many good sized fish being caught on a variety of methods. We also had a few members catching personal bests and some even their very first carp or tench. The weather again typical of NI has not been on our side with more rain and wind making conditions more difficult.

September has started off very cool and wet and everyone is hoping for that last bit of summer to make an appearance (fingers crossed!) before winter starts to crawl in. Some fish have been caught however there is no doubt the fishing has slowed way down due to the temperature drop. Well done to everyone again who has caught throughout August and September and we look forward to seeing you all again soon.

Frankie Orr with a 2lb mirror, one of several caught throughout the day.

Don Walsh cracking mirror.

Don Walsh 5 lb + Common.

Don Walsh 3lb + mirror.

Don Walsh 3lb + mirror.

Stephen with an Ivy Lodge ghost carp at 8 lb caught off the surface.

Fantastic Looking Ghost Carp and Safely Returned!

Chloe McCaughey continues her recent success with another 2lb common on corn.

Stephen with a cracking 9lb + fully scaled mirror.

5lb fully scaled mirror on pellet.