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Not many people know how great it is to fish at Lovells Fishery at Tallington, even pleasure anglers who frequently fish in the Peterborough area.

If I were you and you didn’t know about this I’d go there as soon as I can.If you’re anywhere near, come on over and get into the action. You will likely be back for more!

Here you’ll find something for everyone. There’s an old, well established lake and a more recent pleasure/match pool that was dug out and stocked in 2002 and right now looks a picture of health.

If you’re a specimen hunter, there’s the Old Lake, a mature lake that has been established for over sixty years and heavily lined with trees. There’s plenty of fish and carp is the main species.

I was going to tell you about the top quality surface fishing to be had here but unfortunately the fishery management have banned floating baits for the time being.

There are lots of other tactics though to tempt the big carp, which run to over 30lb, and it is also home to a good head of chub, roach, bream, tench, crucians and rudd.

Depths vary from three feet down to twelve feet in places depending on which swims you choose.

There’s no lack of features to fish to here when you have small gravel patches, light slit patches, reeds, weed beds and gravel bars.

It pays to spend time looking for hotspots. Around 70 per cent of the carp are commons and the other 30 per cent are mirrors.

One big problem with lake is crayfish because they’ll take any bait you care to mention.

Many of the 32 swims are big enough to fit a bivvy into.

Local angler Danial Rathborn took 27 fishes from peg eight on a recent session. The best one weighs just over 22 pounds.

I’m going to make a disclaimer now and say that this is not a typical result but it is possible if you work hard enough on it.

There are very few day-ticket waters in the area where you can bivvy up for the night or possibly even a weekend session, but you will need to call Jim, the head bailiff, to ensure there are pegs available for the times you want to fish. Contact him on 07709 756557.

The match/pleasure lake that was constructed in 2002 is ideal for the local clubs to try as it has 30 pegs on it.

Although it was originally built as a silver fish lake like many other waters around the area, carp have also been introduced to give a lot more variety to a day’s fishing on the lake.

It now holds a large head of carp in fact, from small ones to quite a lot of double figure fish, so be prepared for some big fish action on this pool too.

It also holds a good head of tench, chub, crucians, roach, bream and even barbel.

Sport can get hectic during the warmer months, although I do hear that the fish have been spawning over the hot Bank Holiday weekend so inevitably catches were a little lower than expected.

Depths go right down to over 20 feet in places, with the average being 14 feet.

Filed under: Recreation and Sports on June 23rd, 2009