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From Sutton, first full season Membership. On the day probably one of the first nice hot days of the 2010.

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from Kennington in SE London, have been a member for over 20 years.

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Fishing Pellet waggler close to first island, feeding 10 pellets every 40 secs, fish fed all day.

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Member, hot day, lake is looking good, lot of work been done.

Bait and Tackle:
Pop up dumbell bollie, 10lb line, 6in hooklenth, size 8 hook.

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The morning started off with nice weather and then the rain come and it did not stop.

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Red maggot and sweet corn on the float, had a couple of runs on the lead with no reward.

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The weather was sunny and warm. The lakes were quite busy.

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Fish were caught on straight lead in the margins, they were caught on popped up corn (this has been working well on both Priory and Hogtrough ). I used small amounts of hemp to attract fish in to the swim.

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Overcast most the day.

Bait and Tackle:
Feeder over a baited spot, fake corn hook bait.

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Have been a member for 2 seasons. Weather overcast and some light showers.

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All fish were caught on double boilie hookbaits with around 100 boilies spread around the area with a throwing stick.

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New member this season. Weather very hot.

Bait and Tackle:
Hair Rigged Squid bollie

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At last a night session on Hogtrough, which we knew would be difficult but we wanted a chance of bigger carp. Although we do appreciate the hectic fishing on Priory.

Me, Tom and Dave G again. Weather forecast was very bad with strong winds and rain, not cold. We arrived at 4 in the afternoon just managing to get the bivvi and umbrellas up before the first monsoon. Very windy and changed direction after we had set up blowing diagonally into our faces fishing swims 30 Dave G (guest), me 31 (member) and Tom (guest) in 32. We had a dry but very windy night. Tom and I both decided to get some sleep after dark, no action at all apart from a few wind bleeps and some scarred boilies.

We all heavily baited and were plagued by ducks, us hoping that they hadn't eaten all out bait. Tom fishing on the edge of the island with one rod and the other cast out to the snags to the left. I had one rod in the channel and the other on the edge of the island. Dave G was doing the same as me.

Dave G again did very well. I was woken by a bottle of liquid attractor rebounding off the roof of the bivvi at 3 in the morning. I staggered over to see Dave G unhooking a superb common of 18.5lb. That's three trips for Dave G and three pb's. Tom and I both blanked.

This has not put us off. I missed a very nice fish and we all felt very positive about giving this another go! Especially Dave G. Shame not more reports from Hogtrough

Bait and Tackle:
Ledgered hair rigged snowman rig with a strawberry boily

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Im a guest fishing with my grandad Mike Savage. We had overcast sky with both sunny spells and a few showers.

Bait and Tackle:
We used boilies with a method feeder. We had 10 pound line and a 6 pound hook length. Size 10 barbless hook

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Am a member. Didn't get to lake til 2.30 but had pulled out 30 carp by the time we left at 7!!!!!

Excellent days fishing, weather was overcast and quite windy.

Bait and Tackle:
Boilies

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Arrived at 9:30am with my girlfriend Tracey, fishing pegs 16 & 17. Weather was warm but very windy with the odd shower. Was very hectic all morning with bites a plenty at around 2:00pm quietened down but found a nice shawl of carp feeding on the edge of some pads which kept me occupied for most of the day.

Bait and Tackle:
Dynamaits spicey chicken boilies with small pva bags fished on inline ledger system to far bank

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Back again, a night fish with Tom and Dave G. Dull and overcast but quite warm. Bite first cast before I managed to cast my other rod. Sport was very hectic with all three of us catching from swims 17,16 and 15. There was a lot of banter between Tom and I this trip. Yes and I won for a change. I ended the session with 17 carp - 15 commons, biggest 12lb and 2 crucian, the luncheon meat was bigger than the fish. Tom had 9 commons, biggest 9.5lb. Dave G had 7 commons. A great fish by Dave as he didn't start catching until early Saturday morning. We had the entire weather system on Saturday, a very strange morning!

Have been persuaded to fish Hogtrough next, so lets see what we get, quietly confident!!!!

Bait and Tackle:
Method feeder, hair rigged luncheon meat, prawns and pepperami

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Bait and Tackle:
Method Feeder

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Bait and Tackle:
Method Feeder

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Hair rigged luncheon meat - method presentation. A seafood mix!!

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I used feeder and ledger tactics. I caught the 7lb common on maggots (feeder) along with all the roach. The rest I caught on ledger with the source boilies and pop up corn together. I fished from peg 27 and 25 and cast to the bigger of the two islands

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Hair rigged luncheon meet and hair rigged caster, ledgered and method presentation

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Very simple ledger tactics used with hand tied sinking braid hook links - 6'' in length. Size 12 and 14 hooks with tight hairs to 16mm white chocolate boilies. Bait runners were set for sensitive shy bites as the hot weather made things rather difficult. Owing to fishing on a 48hr session, I baited up particular marginal areas with Hemp based ground bate and small PVA bags of Halibut pellets and white chocolate boilies. This combination allowed for Tench, Bream and Roach to be caught as well as the target species - Carp!!

Bait and Tackle:
Method feeder, hair rigged luncheon meat

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Boilies

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Caught roach on halibut pellet (by mistake) and the tench fell to a dumbbell tipped off with a small fluro pop up

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Open end feeder with home made boilies

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Hair rigged dumbbell boilie and pva bag in the margins

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Pellets and homemade boilies

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Boilies

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loads of carp on floating crust. Light lines, small hooks.

Bait and Tackle:
Bread

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floater pellets /chum mixers in margin at bottom end of lake

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Meat on a size 14 hook to 4lb hook link.

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Used 2 bits Of Sweetcorn On A Size 14 Hook.

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New member from Sevenoaks, 1st time fishing the lake on new membership. Mixture of sunny and cloudy. I spoke to four other members who where all very helpful and friendly and made me very welcome and if the other members are the same I have just found an excellent club and I am going to have a great years fishing.

Bait and Tackle:
Float fishing in the margins, tuti fruity flavour sweetcorn on hook over mini summer fruits pellets.

Bait and Tackle:
Pellet

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Bit soggy in morning but had great fun with the carp on 3lb line on a size 10, hope to be back for more of the same soon.

Bait and Tackle:
Float fished corn close to island

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n/a

Bait and Tackle:
15mm boilies

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We were fishing for 24 hours. Surprised to get a catfish out.

Bait and Tackle:
Catfish, carp and tench caught on hair rigged boilie on the method - others float fished sweetcorn.

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I am from Beckenham. I have been a member for 2 seasons and my best from Hogtrough lake is 25lb.

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Because I was fishing there for a around 2 days I spodded out a spod mix and fished over the top with double boilie hook baits with 3 to 4 free boilies

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Sunny/rain, selsdon, member

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Most fish on bait cage with prawn pop up - others caught on float next to the lilly pads using corn.

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Weather was overcast with occasional showers. Most fish were taken late evening and early morning. Picked up a few during the night.

Bait and Tackle:
Small in-line Fox method feeder. Hook bait was Halibut pellet and popped up sweetcorn.

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I'm From Surrey. I Caught My First Every Tench And Only Got This Membership In 2008

Bait and Tackle:
Halibut Pellet Hair Rigged To A Method Feeder

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Weather was perfect: sun and cloud, although by about 10am the lake was starting to get very busy but by the looks of it everyone was catching. Will have to have another go at Hogtrough soon. Did speak to one guy who was fishing Hogtrough who said he was going to pack up and fish Priory - said fishing was hard.

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The mirror was caught on method hair rig pellet and the common was on floating pellet in the lilies which was great fun trying to get it out, the roach and crucian maggot and sweetcorn.

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I'm a 'bit of cork and bent pin' type of fisherman. I don't understand technical stuff. Poles and rigs and boilies are a mystery to me. I have very little skill or, as I prefer to put it, very little luck. This year, for the first time, I've been fishing Hogtrough. With very little luck. But yesterday evening, I had the lake to myself and it was one of those rare (for me) occasions when the fish are biting and it all seems very easy. The best fish was perhaps not huge, but it was certainly heavier than anything I have taken out of the nearby Priory lake. I was float fishing in the margins in the early evening and had missed a couple (as usual). Maybe third time lucky, I thought, smiling grimly. But so it turned out. The fish pulled off about forty metres of line on the first run. When it decided to come in, I realised my small landing net would be a problem. Several times, it rolled away, but eventually, it took pity on me. At the moment, I feel like I've got Hogtrough sussed, but deep down I know that with my luck (see above) I'll most likely catch nothing at all.

Bait and Tackle:
Float fishing

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No Dad this time! Stuck at work. Sunny breezy day. Fished from 3pm to 7pm, very lively, a quality session. Dad was so jealous. The lake was very busy but I seemed to be the only one catching. Now I have caught some very nice carp from this lake, I must give Hogtrough another go! Shame there are no recent catch reports from there.

Bait and Tackle:
Helicopter rig on luncheon meat and halibut pellet

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This water provides so much great sport! Fished from 3pm to dusk. The weather was overcast and warm. The light seemed very strange all evening, may be something to do with the longest day. Bites, bites and more bites. I wasted so much time chasing fish on the surface leaving only one rod on method. Hooked two on the surface but lost them both very quickly. The fish spat the surface bait out so many times that you had to be very quick or very patient. I was very patient with no reward! Again a cracking session. My son Tom is trying to persuade me to try Hogtrough again. Don't know, need some bigger ones from Priory first. Shame no reports from Hogtrough.

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Method with hair rigged luncheon meat. Hooked but didn\'t land two nice carp on floating crust

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weather: rained all night but the fishing was great sport.

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pellet/ maggot and sweetcorn/ fishing very close to the lilies on the float and feeder close to the island. Fished all night, caught 14 common, biggest being 6lb 8 oz and lost some in the lilies, could not turn them. Most fish where around the 3lb mark but great fun all night. My son Archie had never been fishing before and landed his first fish, a 6lb common. He is now hooked for life.

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croydon, member, weather sunny, hot.

Bait and Tackle:
11lb on floating dog biscuit, 9lb on pop sweet corn in the margins

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What a fantastic night session. Fished from 6pm to 4.30 the next afternoon. Very lucky with the weather: dry, warm and still. Should have been heavy showers with a cool northeast wind. I had 19 common carp and one crucian, Tom had 2 carp and a roach. I didn't sleep the action was so fast and furious, missing at least 10 runs and one fish where the hook pulled out. Bites did not start until about 9 that evening, sport started about 1am and were still biting when we left at 4 on Saturday afternoon. I ran out of feeder mix and loose feed mix at 9am. A fantastic session.

Tom was very unlucky losing two nice carp that night and not catching until late the next morning. The carp were on the surface every where in the afternoon and taking dog biscuit and floating crust. They seem to love the sunshine. Must try to single out the bigger ones next time, all the same Tom and I both agree what a quality session with fantastic sport!!

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18 fish on method with hair rigged luncheon meat, two off the surface on controller floated crust, Tom caught on luncheon meat and halibut pellet.

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A warm evening, over cast and quite still. Tom fished from 3pm to dusk. I joined him at around 7pm and fished to dusk. Unfortunately Tom caught both fish before I arrived with the camera. I had great fun surface fishing with floating crust and although I didn't catch I missed several sitters. Very exciting way of fishing watching some very nice carp, didn't catch, which was my fault!!! May be too used to the bite alarm!!!! Night fishing on Priory on Friday with Tom. If the weather holds it should be a very interesting cession. Watch this space!!!!!

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Both fish on ledgered sweet corn soaked in pineapple. Tom is fishing very well at the moment, may even give his old man some competition.

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New member, second visit. Hot and sunny throughout the day.
Two common carp, best 10lb. Ten tench, best at 5lb. One bream.
Very fit tench. Good sport. All done without the method LOL.

Bait and Tackle:
Floating crust for carp, luncheon meat on float

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Warm with some sunshine, very still. Lots of activity and we both lost very good fish as well as some very good takes. Only fished from 4pm to dusk. What a quality session!!

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Tom caught on halibut pellet, pineapple pop-up and pop-up sweet corn on a mixture of helicopter rig and method. Jim caught all on method fished - hair rigged luncheon meat.

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I fished all night, lost some good fish but I have never caught so many tench in one night weather was great all night.

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Only me this time, rest away for the bank holiday. Night fished from 8pm. The weather from 2am (my last fish) was very windy with torrential rain. I was very thankful that I had a very good bivvy. Up to that point it was very good fishing. Packed up and was blown home at 7am, very, very wet. There were two other very brave souls still fishing and catching!!!!

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All fish on method with hair rigged luncheon meat. Some very good takes on method with halibut pellet on a hair. Too slow!!

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n/a

Bait and Tackle:
method and tutti Frutti boilies

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From Coulsdon, member, my first day fishing at priory farm, very hot and sunny.
A very enjoyable day.

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The crew fished again, my son Tom, Mat Ross Harper (tench and Roach)and David Geleit (guest). The night was very ,very cold with a very sunny warm next day. We fished pegs 17 (me) and the rest at 21 to 23 all night from 7pm to 7pm the next day. Fishing for Carp tried everything. It wasn't until 15 hours later we heard from some of the longer serving members that the Carp are caught at the other end. Makes perfect sense as the car park and quad bike tracks are very close. Thanks guys! I did talk to a young guy on late Saturday morning who caught a carp to 12lbs and had several others. He said he thought he and his mate were just in the right place at the right time. I believe they were fishing pegs 9 & 10 on Hogtrough.

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Very very wet but still a great days fishing - the mud in this swim was a problem.

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Caught from pegs 33 to 35, from the edge of the island, very few takes all day. Carp at 11am and Tench and Bream at 6pm to 7.30pm. Bream caught by my son Tom, and the Tench caught by Mat Ross-Harper both members. Guest David Geleit caught the Carp. Unfortunately for David the camera hadn't arrived.

Sunny and warm with a light breeze from behind the swims. Some activity on the surface close but not feeding. Quite a few surface bubbles halfway to the island but no takers. A very pleasant day although fishing difficult. Saw many small roach caught from the opposite bank. No fish again for the old man.