NEWS: 1st February to 28th February 2017

New Season (Begins 25th March)

At last - the recent arrival of several Greylag and Canadian geese signals winter is beginning to end and spring is not far away.

Fishing Report – 1st February 2017 to 28th February 2017

Thank you to all those anglers who in the past have spent a few moments to summarise their catch in the Cabin Log Book. This information forms the basis of our Monthly Report to keep all anglers informed of what has happened.

To provide an informative monthly summary every angler is urged to share their catch details in the Log Book provided and forward their pictures.

With the new season bookings beginning to increase in quantity; now is the time to renew Night Membership (see website for details) to secure your favourite date(s):

General Maintenance

With the lakes closed for the winter period it has proven to be a good opportunity to carry out various maintenance tasks. This has included:

Angler’s Cabin

The interior of the Angler’s Cabin has been redecorated with a new colour scheme and the exterior has also been repainted.

Angler’s Rod Shed

Those booked in an Apartment and requiring fishing, enjoy the exclusive use of the Angler’s Rod shed for storing wet clothes, tackle and bait. The old fridge/freezer has now been replaced by more appropriate appliances:

• A fridge for storing live baits including maggots, worms, etc.

• A freezer for storing frozen baits including, squid, frozen boilies, etc.

• A fridge for storing only the Angler’s food and drinks

Recording a special memory with a ViKta pen

Achieving a new sporting goal, whether it is that Personal Best fish, a winning goal or even a hole-in-one; it is always exciting and memorable.  Now available are locally hand-crafted ViKta ball-point pens which make an ideal gift for the discerning sportsman or women for recording that special memory.  Using only the finest materials, the ViKta pen clip specifically recognises individual sports including:

• Football - football

• Angling – fish or rod

• Shooting - rifle

• Golf - putter

The ViKta pen barrels are individually and precision machined using a choice of recycled wood or acrylic.

            ViKta pen components

                       Set-up

              Precision turning

                            Selection of pens

                             With or without a case

Each ViKta pen is £23.00 or £24.00 boxed including a refill.

To order email: coltleisure@btinternet.com

January 2017

NEWS: 1 January 2017 to 31 January 2017

We wish you all a wonderful 2017 and look forward to you visiting when you will be 'Never Knowingly Over-Crowded' and there is a good possibility of resetting a PB or two.

Bookings for the 2017 Season

Manor Fisheries will OPEN on Saturday 25th March and CLOSE after Monday 2nd October 2017. Fishing "Availability" can be seen up to 6-months ahead via the "Availability" tab.

A Booking becomes firm following confirmation. We are now accepting booking requests from visitors with different requirements:

1. A Booking request for "Accommodation and discounted Fishing" for 3, 4 and 7 nights (or longer) throughout our 2017 Season.
2. A Booking request for fishing up to 6 months ahead from a 2017 Night Member by including their Night Membership number (and for each angler in their group).
3. A booking request 3 months ahead for those requiring only Day Fishing (7.00 am to 7.00 pm).

New website

Our new website kicked smoothly into life on Friday 6th January 2017 and you will find it has a number of new features. This includes reading information more easily when using your Internet enabled phone. Visit our Availability tab where you can see current availability of fishing (and Apartments).

Many thanks to Terry Keard for providing several of the new photographs for our website and includes that showing on our Home page. All anglers are encouraged to submit their Manor Fisheries photographs for publication.

Each month we plan to refresh our website Home page with the most interesting photograph relating in Manor Fisheries.

Fishing Report – 1st January 2017 to 31st January 2017

Thank you to all those anglers who in the past have spent a few moments to summarise their catch in the Cabin Log Book. This information forms the basis of our Monthly Report to keep all anglers informed of what has happened.

To provide an informative monthly summary every angler is urged to share their catch details in the Log Book provided and forward their pictures.

Lakes Maintenance

With the lakes now closed for the winter period it has proven to be a good opportunity to carry out various lake maintenance tasks. During sunny weather on Saturday 29th October last year, a Working Party armed with their sharp gardening saws, shears and long poled loppers tirelessly removed an enormous quantity of overhanging branches from all three lakes. This will reduce the number of break offs and expose more sunlight to previously over grown areas of water.

We extend a very BIG thank you to Gary Deacon, Terry Keard, Kevin Oxley and Jason Tuckey who again all volunteered to assist in this annual task. 

Other lakes maintenance work this winter has included:

Lake 3 (Mixed)

• The brambles and debris taking over the whole surface of the island have been cut back and burnt.

• With the valuable assistance of Hadlow College on the 11th January, the cold weather did not deter students and staff performing electro stunning and netting – see below. A couple of 10lbs+ Carp were safely relocated to Lake 1 (Carp) and three rogue Catfish were discovered! Two were doubles and one was 20lbs+ and they were all rehomed to Lake 2 (Carp/Catfish).

Lake 2 (Carp/Catfish)

• Major repair work to the “Cat Alley” swim (between L3 and L2) completed.   

• It had become apparent 2-years ago that the Lake 2 (Carp/Catfish) biomass was becoming too high and this month another reduction plan was successfully initiated. As a result of valuable assistance from Hadlow College in icy conditions on the 18th January – see below; 44 x Catfish weighing a total of 444lbs were re-homed to a new location and 11 x double figure Carp to 20lbs and weighing a total of 162lbs were transferred to Lake 1 (Carp).

Netting Lake 2 after breaking the ice.

A 20lbs Common for Lake 1 (Carp)

 Lake 1 (Carp)

• The rampant spread of brambles taking over the whole surface of the island have been cut back and burnt together with cutting back several overhanging island branches.

• On the 18th January a further 11 x double figure Carp to 20lbs and weighing a total of 162lbs were transferred from Lake 2 (Carp/Catfish); resulting in Lake 1 (Carp) now containing approximately 150+ doubles.