I wouldn’t go anywhere this week without an ice breaker for sure most places will still have an inch or so of ice even if it stays like this

should be ok here up north….?
my pond had over 4 inch and its all gone!

One of our club waters still has 4″ the other has half thawed. Hollingworth Lake is still solid!!

I had a text off my mate this afternoon, my local club lake still has a two and a half inch layer of ice on it so its still got some way to go before it thaws totally.

Earlswood Engine still has a thick lid on it, bar a few pegs by the access on the engine house bank.

our pond is still froze about 2 inchs with dead fish all over i wouldnt expect to fish on heronbrook as he aint broke the ice for weeks i recon he will get a shock when it does thaw i took 200 carp to 16lb out of our pond today

Very sad news that Wayne. Thems carp have been in there for years and survived all sorts of crap …. like you mate i think plenty of commie owners in the NW are in for a big shock when the ice finally thaws !

Still 3″ of ice on the Bridgy in most places!

Spoke to a mate of mine last night who spoke to neil at h/brook he said that half of meadow is free but the other half has 4-5″ still on it. So the league will be off i’d of thought, and i presume the other pools will be iced up as well. Not good.

I was sat in a boat Roger with dead carp upto my knees, its disgusting and there’s still hundreds more dead fish to be taken out yet. We also found some huge dead perch to 3lb :-(.

Hi Wayne

Have you had the fish tested to see what caused thier deaths?
I’m sorry to hear of the loss, but I’d have it checked out to find the cause
I have not heard of anywhere else that has had the same problem because of the ice

Martyn

No we havent but we knew this was going to be the case when the ice thawed out. We reacted too slowly im afraid, the ice had covered the pond for weeks and weeks and the fish were already gasping by the time we broke it.. Our pond is FULL of silt. Combine that with ice over the top for weeks = disaster. Our pond needs desilting and has done for years. But our club is very badly run and know very little about running a fishery. They are murdering our fish in my opinion. I reckon we have over 800 dead carp (they were in fantastic condition too), and endless amounts of other fish dead :-(.

Would have thought Heronbrook has a chance, very good thawing day today and forcast tomorrow is good , fingers crossed.Would like to knoW if theres a chance as soon as possible though.

I doubt very much that this weeks individual league will be on. The whole complex will have to be free cos there is 110 booked on which means more or less every peg free of ice (ie peg one miss one which is the norm) and if there is still 4″ on meadow then that will take some thawing out. He might run an open on the pegs that are free but best bet would be to ring him up.

Fished my 1st open match of 2010 yesterday at Candy Corner nr Doncaster.

over 80% of the lake has thawed, albeit i can now see a good 3 foot down into the water it is that clear.

It didnt deter sport though with 36lb winning it and my 31lb coming second!

GALPS.

Really good thawing day today in Manchester, just some “icebergs” floating down the Bridgy Canal today, should all be gone by saturday afternoon ~clap

martin just had walk on one of my local lakes dead carp all over sad to say and thats just the half thats thin enough to let you distinquish the fish from the other debri 3o+ so far and its only a 20 pegger bugger

@scizzers wrote:

martin just had walk on one of my local lakes dead carp all over sad to say and thats just the half thats thin enough to let you distinquish the fish from the other debri 3o+ so far and its only a 20 pegger bugger

Where abouts in Manchester is that Scizzers?

@scizzers wrote:

martin just had walk on one of my local lakes dead carp all over sad to say and thats just the half thats thin enough to let you distinquish the fish from the other debri 3o+ so far and its only a 20 pegger bugger

Where abouts in Manchester is that Scizzers?

does anyone know how many pegs available at cudmore sunday

can someone explain please.why havnt people been out breaking ice?at woodlands,thirsk,according to the angling times,the owner or someone sed that there would be no ice breaking and that nature would take its course,n look whats happend.i may be wrong but commercials are not natural so should they be tret differently.been told its not the ice but the snow that was on top,putting the lake into darkness 24/7.photosinthasis or sumat.dont no how right this is

We did break the ice weeks ago mate. Some of us with axes and waders and we even got a JCB. It was just too little too late. And we were some of the first to break ice! We even made it onto the second page of the AT lol. Sadly im now spending my Saturday taking out another 1000-2000lbs worth of dead fish on top of what we’ve already taken out. At 23 i dont picture my weekends in a boat knee deep in dead fish covered in fish slime an blood. Its heart breaking and very smelly.

thats really sad,i wasnt having ago,i just wondered why some fisheries hadnt even tried to break the ice.

Aye i know mate, shit happens.

Those who chose not to break the ice out of sheer stupidity, deserve to be out of pocket. At least if we get a winter like this again next year we’ll be ready for it. Thats if we have a fishery left. Doh.

trav medlock vale not a pretty site

me and mikey j have spent hours in a boat today taking dead fish out of our club pond i recon we have taken about 3000-4000lbs of dead fish out. all good quality fish too upto 20+ lbs gutted this is in manchster