Carp providing quality And quantity

Several carp have been banked from the River Stour in the past month or so but away from the river, sizeable stillwater carp have continued to be caught at Fordwich and Stonar lakes. Paul Whitehorn pitched up at Fordwich to hook four good ‘doubles’ including a 23lb mirror carp and a 34lb common. A 25lb 8oz mirror carp was landed by Chris Powell, while a tough, scrapping common carp of 22lb 8oz eventually slipped into Andy Davies’ landing net. The Stonar carp catches have included quality and quantity with many anglers achieving both, even during relatively short sessions. Dale Mcgurk took 15 carp – his best a mirror of 25lb 12oz – and Daniel Gisby six more good doubles. Chris Gisby’s tally included seven more Stonar carp, bream to 7lb and a 4lb 1oz tench. A mixed carp bag of commons, koi and mirrors gave Paul Mills 14 fish to 29lb 12oz. Plenty of good bags of silver fish have been seen including the one caught by Dave Kemp with rudd to 1lb and small tench, as well as 13 carp to 16lb. Andrew and Andrea Palmer shared the spoils with bream to 6lb and carp to 16lb 1oz. Quality roach have continued to be landed at Stonar with Tim Glass netting nine to 12 ounces and 16 fine rudd to 1lb and tench to 2lb. Richard Bigg has been reeling in lots of fish during the 2017/18 season and most recently his Stonar catch report comprised 12 excellent roach all over 1lb. Bigg’s best was a specimen of 2lb. Terry and Chris Culley chose to fish at Stour Lake in Fordwich and finished with a brace between them. Terry hooked a 15lb mirror carp and Chris weighed in an 11lb common carp. Due to a local outbreak of koi herpes virus (KHV), no keepnets are permitted to be used on any Canterbury & District Angling Association waters at this time. Dip nets are in place on all still waters and nets, mats and slings must be fully immersed for a minimum of 15 minutes. The association’s committee thanks all members for their help and understanding in complying with this instruction.