Where To Go Sport Fishing in Lowells Fishery
Posted in Freshwater Angling on the June 12, 2009
If you an angler in the Peterborough area, the Lovells Fishery at Tallington are probably not the first two lakes you would think of fishing in.
But you have got to at least see how it’s like.If you don’t want to miss the action, make the pilgrimage and try it out over the next few weeks. You will likely be back for more!
There is something for everyone here. Not only is there an old, well established lake, there’s also a new pleasure/match pool dug out fairly recently and in pretty good condition.
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.
Unfortunately, since floating baits have been banned by the fishery management, there’s no surface fishing to be had.
The lake is abundant in chub, roach, bream, tench, crucians and rudd so there are many other tactics to tempt the big carp.
Depending on which swims you choose, depths vary quite a lot from three feet right down to twelve feet.
With gravel bars, small gravel patches, weed beds, reeds and light slit patches, there’s no lack of features to fish to.
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.
The only downside to this lake is the crayfish which are a real problem at times as they just love anglers bait, almost any bait you care to mention.
A majority 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 am not saying you will bag up like that on every visit but the potential is there for all who put the time and effort in.
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.
As I said earlier the match/pleasure lake was constructed in 2002 and has over 30 pegs on it - ideal for any of our local clubs to give it a try.
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.