Spires Lakes

Still on a Perch mission a day at Spires lakes was done, if your like me and you favour escapism and solitude in your fishing, then commercial fisheries like this, especially at weekends are to be avoided but occasionally these waters can sustain species to specimen sizes such a place is Spires. Two small lakes, well ponds really, make up this fishery with the top pond being the carp lake. The lower pond is full of silvers and Perch were introduced years ago to control Rudd populations. This pond has produced Perch just short of 5lb and even today is throwing up many two and three pounders. Perch were introduced to the top lake a little later and now this too is producing three pounders, so avoiding the pressured lower pond i opted the challenge of the higher lake to see what lurks.
Arriving at dawn i settled down at the dam end in the deeper water and the usual fat worm under a float was presented close to the margins by an over hanging tree, within minutes i was missing bites as little silvers try to do away with my worm. Inbetween these nuisances small Perch started to show and some sporting carp to 9lb kept me busy as i tried to filter out a big Perch.

Unfortunately that huge Perch never showed and the largest i had was around a pound. Despite the struggle i was entertained by a Kingfisher that chose to fish right from the tree next to me throughout the day which was superb to watch and to top that my last fish of the day was a cracking Golden Orfe of 4lb.