Fish Stock

 11th March 2010. Blakemere recieved its final MAJOR stocking today, with 86 carp. these wre mainly c4 and c5 year fish with the average c5 fish weighing 13lbs. The largest fish was an ex brood fish at 21lbs and is expected to grow to around 26-27lbs by the end of the year. The pictures rotating at the top of this page are all fish stocked today.

We have one final stocking planned for November 2010, consisitng of 12 fish all over 20lbs and around 20 heavily scaled c4 fish of a Leney / Sutton strain which will all be absolutely stunners.

 Blakemere had an existing stock of fish when we purchased it in 2006. These fish were from original stockings back in the 1980's from clubs that used to fish it, namely Whitchurch Iron foundry and until more recently Wyche Anglers. The existing stock included carp (seemingly all commons - up to 32 lbs) tench up to 9lbs, pike, perch, roach, rudd, & eels.

To the existing stock we have added around 250 carp. These ranged from 5lb - 24lb when stocked, and were selected as much for their looks as their weight. We have some beautiful linears, fully scaled mirrors, along with a few leathers and some cracking commons with huge fins. Most of the fish stocked at 5lbs are now weighing between 11-15lbs. There is also one known ghost carp around 18lbs in weight.

We have also stocked 100 tench around 6-8 inches to grow on and add to the existing tench stocks which weigh in between 3- 9 lbs. There are no bream at present.

The pike seem to be plentiful but small in weight (all under 10lbs) but so little fishing has been done there are sure to be much larger fish lurking uncaught. Locals suggest that there used to be many fish in the 20lb plus bracket , but we haven't seen them - YET !

   

 

The fish above are also from the 11th March 2010 stocking.