Secret Pond

How big is a pond before it's called a lake Anyway I've found a giant puddle in the forest where I'm currently working and after seeing a small feeding frenzy going on after throwing in a crust from my sandwich a plan was hatched
Actually I just threw a light rod in the car with a few floats and some size 14 hooks and a handful of sweet corn and thought I'd try my luck after work

Landed lots of small Rudd which were good fun on the light gear

Spoke to a fellow logger mate of mine who lives near the puddle and he caught a Tench a couple of years back but hasn't fished it since and as far as anyone knows niether has anyone else so it looks like I've got it all to myself
Apart from the three thousand midges that ate me alive









A nice way to spend an hour after a day of harvesting timber

Meanwhile,by the side of a secret pond,a little Gnomey
sat,with his rod in his hand

Did you have to lower the tone!

Interesting that they go for sweetcorn when they've probably never seen it before.

Sweetcorn salad for your lunch box every day from now on!

Midges are no fun though.

Rhod Lloyd wrote:

Did you have to lower the tone!

Was waiting for you to say "I've swapped the pin Whiting for pin Rudd "

Seriously I thought by now you would have sold exclusive rights to the fishery to as many suckers as you could find on line.

Rhod Lloyd wrote:

Did you have to lower the tone!

You totally misread my post,I hadn't even thought of it in that vain.

I think in general,midges start to come out as the sun goes down.
Could be your after tea fishing will be out.

VALVEBOUNCE wrote:

I think in general,midges start to come out as the sun goes down.

Permanent feature in a damp forest I'm afraid

Rhod Lloyd wrote:

Seriously I thought by now you would have sold exclusive rights to the fishery to as many suckers as you could find on line.

Shshshsh im getting some passes printed out right now

Notbad wrote:

Interesting that they go for sweetcorn when they've probably never seen it before.

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If I'd spent my life eating nothing but flies and frogspawn I'd be glad to try something new as well

Logger wrote:

Notbad wrote:

Interesting that they go for sweetcorn when they've probably never seen it before.

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If I'd spent my life eating nothing but flies and frogspawn I'd be glad to try something new as well

You're on form today pal

Went again tonight and caught a couple of bigger ones, used sweetcorn again but experimented with different baits, carrot pea and a dead fly

They all caught although the carrot baits took longer to find a customer and the pea was hard to put on the hook (too soft) but the dead fly found a hungry mouth within seconds






Puddle chuckers R us

Well done there, I wonder what else lives in there. Allways exciting exploring a new spot. Is there any sign that it is fished by others,

As far as my pal knows it's not fished by anyone and there's certainly no sign of anyone having been there plus you need a forestry padlock key to get anywhere near it or it's a hell of a walk

There are very few places like that these days with google earth, in my far off youth, I would bike miles mostly uphill just to catch tiny rudd in a pond at Rhosesmor.
From memory, there aren't that many people living around Clocaenog. Is it a natural pond, or man made, any streams in and out?

It's not in Cloc it's in Snowdonia (I moved to another job).
Part of it is certainly man made as it has a small dam at one end which is connected with some nearby mine workings which were abandoned over a century ago, there's also a depth marker which shows the level is 19 meters so it's quite deep.
I shall explore the depths for fish another day

Sounds like you are struggling for bait Dave,don't forget old faithful,
Your butties (bread)Haha.

Tried that but can't keep the stuff on the hook

Brilliant,
Sounds like "fly" artificial bread, artificial sweetcorn or bloodwirm flues would work and no storage issues on a coarse rod set up or proper flyfishing if there is casting room.

Logger wrote:

Tried that but can't keep the stuff on the hook

Seems a shame not to use the opportunity to fish it.
Thought of trying bread paste made with egg/milk or water?
A couple of cheap Aldi white loaves for groundbait made into balls with milk/egg etc.
If you wrap the groundait ball around a stone,it will go down deeper and quicker.
I wonder what is down in those mysterious depths,

Intend to find out

Have you tried worms, we have a small sand dune lake I used to fish when I was working on a farm (sawmilling), it was stocked with golden orfe very similar to rudd, best bait were some small bullies 2 inches at most caught in a net around the edge. They may not be there now, our Department of conservation kills off "noxious fish". Of course trout and salmon though introduced as well but a long time before, because they make heaps of money are allowed to stay.

Heads up chaps if your coming back as a fish make sure your a Trout or a Salmon

Lovely colours on those
fish by the way, like the colour they were when I was a kid, not like the pellet fed ones in commercial ponds now.

I reckon you have literally found a gene pool there!