Work Parties and Fish Refuges

May 2025

3rd May W/Party Feedback – Thanks for the great turnout at the weekend workparty, the excellent work done and also at the earlier April event.  The ponds are now ready for the opening date of 15th May. Given the recent warmer weather let’s hope the fish will respond with a bumper start. Don’t forget to record your catches so we can monitor progress.

One or two things to note – 

• Please remember the gabions cages in both ponds. One or two of these have been reset and/or moved position. They are all marked with small yellow or white buoys so please give them a suitably wide berth to avoid being caught up in them.
• The equipment lockers have been cleaned out and lifted off the ground. Where possible stored equipment has been labelled with owner’s name and membership number. If you have equipment in the lockers please ensure it is labelled with your name and number using the available markers and tape.
• In one box there is an old green fibre glass rod that has seen better days. Unless it is claimed I would like to remove it. Please contact if it is yours. 

October 2024

Hello all, we just wanted to provide you with an update of work that has been undertaken at the ponds during October 2024. Firstly, a big thankyou to the dirty dozen (they didn’t arrive that way!) who made it to the work party on a filthy day.  Matt Rumpel was there as usual to do a great job of strimming around the site.

Some repair work was finished on peg12 to make it safe, replacing a couple of decayed timber lengths. Additionally much of the time was spent building fish refuges which are intended for both ponds once next week’s match is out of the way and before stocking takes place. 

Following on from this, the refuges have now been installed. Please take note there are a number of fish refuges in the top pond. All have been marked with a small yellow polysterene buoy and a number are sited in shallow water either side of fishing pegs. Hopefully they will attract fish to the area and provide a safe area from predators. Naturally anglers will be hoping to benefit from that but please allow sufficient room to avoid getting caught up on them. Each of the refuges are  roughly a metre cube size.

For the time being only one has been placed in the bottom pond. When time permits more will be added down there.

I’ve had 2 or 3  recent reports of a cormorant or goosander visiting the ponds. Please make sure you let me know or record in the catch book if you see anything.