Reporting Your Catch

29th August 2025

Well I’ve been down to the ponds twice this week, fishing the top pond both times and the fishing has been good. Yesterday I managed to catch another 4 1/2lb Tench from peg 4 which is the second 4 1/2lb tench this season. Other than the tench I’ve had some nice roach, and some small rudd and perch.

24th August 2025

Hello all. Thanks to David for sending in a photo of a bream from bottom pond. It nice to see people are enjoying the fishing. I fished top pond for the afternoon of Wednesday 20th August and saw five other anglers, which was great 🙂

19th August 2025

Hello again. I have been away on holiday for a week or so but got back to fishing on Sunday 17th. I was a little late arriving and didn’t start fishing until 10ish. It was a nice day and I again chose to fish peg 12 on the top pond. The fishing was quiet until around 1:30 when I managed to land a few reasonable roach, the biggest of which was a good 1/2lb. I’ll post a picture up below for you. As usual my bait was mussels.

I know Steve has sent a message about the bottom pond fishing well on double maggot with people reporting good catches of Crucians. Steve had Paul Stone report the following catch on the bottom pond on the 13th August – I joined Ian Watts yesterday for a session on the bottom pond. Tactically quite different from the previous visit but successful nonetheless. Pond was like a jacuzzi when we started around 9.30 but calmed as the day progressed. By lunchtime it had become relatively quiet. Both caught plenty of fish, I think a dozen crucians between us. Ian had a couple of tench and I lost one. Had some good roach, a couple particularly good, acceptable rudd and even managed a slab of 2.5/3.0 lbs. Not so many sardines this time . All fish caught on maggots.

Tight lines 🙂 Tim.

7th August 2025

Hi all, well it seems both ponds continue to fish well at the moment although my fishing has been focused on the top pond in the past few weeks. I have been trying peg 12 after losing more fish in the lillies on peg 13. I have continued to catch tench around the 4lb mark, with the biggest so far being 4lb 8oz. My intention is to try and land one of the bigger bream so I’m keeping my fingers crossed for one of them. I have found that feeder to the lillies in the centre of the pond seems to work well.

Also I have had feeback that the bottom pond is fishing well. Thanks to David Whitaker who emailed with the following details

I caught the following last Friday evening (1.8.25) on the bottom pond, B5.

Hello all, I’ve been a little slow to provide you with some updates but I have been fishing both the top and bottom ponds, mainly in the mornings 6am till 11am and have been really enjoying it. Apart from the ponds looking lovely at this time of year the fish have been most abliging. My advice on current hot pegs are on the top pond peg 13 and 4, although peg 13 is tight with the two large beds of lillies either side which has resulted in me losing three bream in them (has someone forgot to tell the bream in the top pond that they are bream as when you hook them they set off like carp. I’d be interested to hear if any of you have also seen this?) On the bottom pond the last peg before the corner on the right is fishing very well through the day with all sorts of fish coming from that peg. I’ve been fishing with my regular baits of sweetcorn and mussels due to the complexities of gaining live baits when you live in Matlock 🙂

Anyway I’m adding some photo’s of a fish caught by me and a net full from the peg in the bottom pond caught by John.

8th May 2025

Hi all, I’m really looking forward to the new season and I will be recording details of my visits and catches here on the website. Hopefully you will find this useful and please feel free to report your catches using the forms below. Thanks Tim

10th Jan 2025

Hi all it’s nice to see people using the comments section to provide feedback. this could also be used to report catches directly. You should be able to see the “Leave a Comment” section below, which come through for approval to myself. If you wish you can post details of your catches here and they will be made available for all to read. Kind regards – Tim

3rd Jan 2025

Happy 2025 to you all. I was hoping to report on peoples vists and catches to the ponds via the new website. If you have any information on your vists and any catches you have made please feel free to contact me at mailto:tgittins123@gmail.com

15th Nov 2024

Hi all,

We would like to keep our records of catches made up to date and if possible report them on the new web site. Please could you record your catches in the log book at the parking bay or send them via email to steven_r.lilley@btinternet.com