Chestnut Pool [near Biggleswade]

[TF_BrengunParticipant]

Hi guys! Got a couple of matches coming up at this venue. Never fished it before so If anyone has any info about the place I’d appreciate your help.

[TF_reidyGHLC]

The lake has 30 pegs and a central island which the points are on peg 3 and peg 19. If you are fishing an open match then the venue rule is pole only, 14.5m limit.

The lake has a deep side from peg 4 to 18 been 6 foot deep approx and then shallows from 19 to 3 coming in at 3-4 feet deep on the pole line.

If you are on a club match then i would look at chucking a method feeder to the island, there are hundreds of carp that live up the island most in the 4-5 pound mark. fish robust gear as they go abit, and if every one is casting to the island you can end up in all kinds of trouble hence the pole only opens,
i would also fish a pellet waggler at 25-30 yrds feeding 8mm pellets, with the same banded pellet on the hook, this can be an awesome method on there as the carp hang well of the pole line nowadays.

if you are going to fish the pole, the carp havent been showing on the pole line in the matches in any great numbers and your main target is the massive stock of skimmers/bream from 8oz to 3-4lb, fish as as long as possible, 13-14m for these, fishing rigs on 0.14 to an 0.12 bottom, with a light elastic, white hydro or the like, and if you hook a carp take you time, fishing heavier rigs you wont catch as many skimmers, its that fine balance, weights are usually 60 odd pound of skimmers in the opens with odd carp to beef them up to 70-80,
some pegs you can catch lumps down the edges, mainly the pegs with cover, pegs 3-11,17,24-30, but again its rare to, although i always feed it as they are big fish, up to 20lb if you get them feeding there. Proper rigs are req’d here!!!

Bait wise on the pole line what ever you do dont feed pellet, you will end up with a horrible bubbling mess of a peg and wont be able to buy a bite, I would take corn and/or 6mm cubed meat, and i only feed the long line with a toss pot of meat fishing meat on the hook, and just feel your way in, getting too many fish in your peg is a really problem with liners if you dump a load of bait in at the start. little and often works for me,
the skimmers will come off bottom too so its worth having a half to 3/4 depth rig if your getting liners or start catching on the drop.

if you end up on peg 9 or 11, these are in a bay facing each other,(there is no peg 10 by the way) then you are limited to pole anyway, but turn your box and fish out into the lake, use to edge of the island in the gap as a marked and fish long, 14m to get out into the body of the lake.
peg 25 is good as its on a point and 2-3m further out than those around, 3,4,5,8,12,13,14,18 are good skimmer pegs,

good luck, hope that helped

[TF_BrengunParticipant]

@reidyGHLC wrote:

The lake has 30 pegs and a central island which the points are on peg 3 and peg 19. If you are fishing an open match then the venue rule is pole only, 14.5m limit.

The lake has a deep side from peg 4 to 18 been 6 foot deep approx and then shallows from 19 to 3 coming in at 3-4 feet deep on the pole line.

If you are on a club match then i would look at chucking a method feeder to the island, there are hundreds of carp that live up the island most in the 4-5 pound mark. fish robust gear as they go abit, and if every one is casting to the island you can end up in all kinds of trouble hence the pole only opens,
i would also fish a pellet waggler at 25-30 yrds feeding 8mm pellets, with the same banded pellet on the hook, this can be an awesome method on there as the carp hang well of the pole line nowadays.

if you are going to fish the pole, the carp havent been showing on the pole line in the matches in any great numbers and your main target is the massive stock of skimmers/bream from 8oz to 3-4lb, fish as as long as possible, 13-14m for these, fishing rigs on 0.14 to an 0.12 bottom, with a light elastic, white hydro or the like, and if you hook a carp take you time, fishing heavier rigs you wont catch as many skimmers, its that fine balance, weights are usually 60 odd pound of skimmers in the opens with odd carp to beef them up to 70-80,
some pegs you can catch lumps down the edges, mainly the pegs with cover, pegs 3-11,17,24-30, but again its rare to, although i always feed it as they are big fish, up to 20lb if you get them feeding there. Proper rigs are req’d here!!!

Bait wise on the pole line what ever you do dont feed pellet, you will end up with a horrible bubbling mess of a peg and wont be able to buy a bite, I would take corn and/or 6mm cubed meat, and i only feed the long line with a toss pot of meat fishing meat on the hook, and just feel your way in, getting too many fish in your peg is a really problem with liners if you dump a load of bait in at the start. little and often works for me,
the skimmers will come off bottom too so its worth having a half to 3/4 depth rig if your getting liners or start catching on the drop.

if you end up on peg 9 or 11, these are in a bay facing each other,(there is no peg 10 by the way) then you are limited to pole anyway, but turn your box and fish out into the lake, use to edge of the island in the gap as a marked and fish long, 14m to get out into the body of the lake.
peg 25 is good as its on a point and 2-3m further out than those around, 3,4,5,8,12,13,14,18 are good skimmer pegs,

good luck, hope that helped

Thanks Reidy, Your run down is excellent! I hope I can put the info to good use.

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