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Fishing and family fun can go together
about their holiday plans, the conversation invariably centres around either Ire land or Holland and some times more exotic climes such as Southern France, Spain and the Canary Islands to mention a few, enter the discourse. Like most h o l id ay
WHEN talking to anglers
MICK COOKSON proves that you don’t have to fly to foreign parts to enjoy your angling holiday.. . . and keep your family happy at the same time!
makers, anglers are looking for value for money holi days, where they can be guaranteed good catches of quality fish and perhaps if they have a wife and family with them something more than fishing alone to make the holiday go along the right lines. Most anglers will agree
that there is nothing worse than having an impatient and often very unhappy wife and kids wanting you
to call it a day, when almost every cast brings you a sai- laway bite and every strike results in a rod bending fight from a worthy fish. Some of the most popu
lar venues while providing excellent fishing for anglers have very little else to offer in way of entertainment, especially for anglers travel ling with their families. Not all venues are like
this of course and most members of the fairer sex will happily soak up the sun
given the chance especially if it’s in a foreign land, but travelling abroad with a family" for a fishing holiday can prove very expensive, and there are alternatives. There really is no need
Kevin Macken and a young friend admire a day’s catch from the Cotswold Water Park
.often right under their noses! During the early 1960’s
often remind me of ants rushing here, lushing there in search of the ultimate angling Mecca when it is
to cross the “briny” to experience first class fish ing, and there are superb venues in both Scotland and Wales for both game and course fishing, but what about England? England, believe me has a lot to offer and anglers
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the Norfolk Broads offered what can only be described as brilliant fishing with huge nets -of bream and monster pike recorded from the River Thurne system in particular, and when you realise that Dennis Pye, that Broads “legend” landed no fewer than 240 pike over 201b. in a 10 year spell, you can see how good it was. It attracted anglers from
power boat racing. Not all cater for angling, but those that do can be fantastic and huge hauls of fish are recorded yearly. There are four waters
Bradleys Lake and this
all over the country who came in search of its huge bream shoals and fantastic roach fishing. Disaster struck when a poisonous algae known as prymnesium caused what is thought to be the biggest fish kill ever known in Great Britain. Things have, I am glad to
available for the game fishermen: these are Hor- shoe Lake, Manor Brook Lake, Lower Moor, and Rainbow Lake and there are two country parks which are Keynes Country Park and Neigh Bridge Country Park. These parks are full of interest and things to do for all the family. Then th e re is Somerford Lakes Reserve which has a Childrens Pirate Party which is a trip around the lake to Pirates Island for “treasure” and a barbeque. There is so much to do how could you get bored? Kevin and Howard tell
say improved again and good fish are once again being caught but it still has a long way to go to reach those “heady days” of the early sixties when names like Hickling Broad, Horsey Mere, Heigham Sound, Candle Dyke and White Slea were magic to an anglers ears. Even so it remains a very popular angling venue with other good waters close by offer ing superb sport. With more leisure time becoming available a num ber of country parks and water parks have suddenly sprung up around Great Britain and are proving very popular, with all man ner of water based sports available, to provide what can only be described as an e x c i t i n g h o l i d a y opportunity. Last year two Burnley
overlooks yet another good water Ham Pool which yields hugh catches of tench every year. Kevin told me one angler caught over 44 tench which averaged over 41b last year, and bigger nets have been recorded.
who issue day tickets are Ashton Keynes A.C., South Carney A.C. and Amey Angling and these are avail able from several outlets, and they are not expensive. To reach the Cotswold
Three local angling clubs
Water Park from Burnley, take the M6 south from Preston, join the M5 at Bir mingham and come off at Junction 11, head for Glou cester then look for signs for Cirencester A417, from C i r e n c e s te r A 419 to Swindon.
me the lakes are not over fished but are well bailiffed and looked after, and a strict no rubbish rule is enforced. On their visit last year they fished Keynes No. 1 Lake and what a great time they had taking big nets of tench which averaged 41b - 51b and the smallest tench weighed only 3M>lb! Method was the waggler fished in around 9 feet of water with a 2.61b line and size 14 hook, bait was either treble caster or two grains of sweetcorn. Howard told me “if you leave your rod you’ll lose it, these fish are big”. Brad leys Lake No. 17 holds carp of 301b plus and gives con sistently good sport. There is a club house at
from log cabins, caravans, to tents and anyone who fancies a change can get fur ther information from the following sources: Accommodation Guide — The Cotswolds from Cots wold District Council, Corn Hall, Cirencester, Glos., GL7 2NW. Tel. Cirencester 654180. Water Sports Guide — The S p o r ts D e v e lo pm e n t Officer, Keynes Country Park, Shorncote, Cirences ter, GL7 6DF. Tel. Ciren cester 860186. Walking, Horseriding and Cycle Routes — From The Rangers Office, Keynes Country Park, Shorncote, Cirencester, GL7 6DF. Tel. Cirencester 861459. □
Accommodation ranges
Cerney in the West section and Fairford and. Lechlade in the east, make up a total of almost 100 lakes, some of which are still being worked and some of which are full of big fish! The lakes are num bered and cater for all kinds of water sports ranging from angling, sailing, wind- surfing, jet ski-ing, water ski-ing, canoeing, and
anglers Kevin Macken and Howard Fletcher travelled down to fish the waters of the Cotswold Water Park which is situated in the Upper Thames Valley on the borders of Gloucester shire and Wiltshire and con sists of two areas of lakes which have been formed by gravel extraction. Ashton Keynes and South
Kevin Macken and Howard Fletcher, both of Burnley, with a mountain of tench
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