Conditions: -

Summary:
Travelled up on the Wednesday afternoon, arived at 7:00pm. Had the 3 smaller cats all betwen 2 and 3am. The carp all came on the thursday evening and the rest of the cats at between 12 and 7am on the friday with the 58,5 coming at 5am. Took about 45min to bring it in, a lovely looking fish!!!

Notable Fish:
8 catfish..13..17..26..31..35,2..38,12..41,7..58,5 4
mirror carp..25,2..27,8..29,1..31,13 2
common carp..13..28,6
L lost 2 small carp at net and 1 cat tock me round the island and cut me off, and to my surprise I had a 6lbs pike while reeling in my braid in the morning!!

Tactics and bait:
Cats were all on 6 lobworm on a 4 inch hair poped up 1 foot off the bottom at 10yard range. Carp were on singal piece of maize fished 4 yards off the island, heavily baited with 3 kilos of hemp 3kilos of boilies and 1kilo off sweetcorn.

Conditions: -

Summary:
Lake 5 producing lots of carp of all sizes. You can expect in excess of 15 fish on a day session. Float fishing in the margins with corn, catmeat and handfull of pellets each cast is an exceptional method at the moment.

Lake 6 producing cats up to 33lb with average cat between 20 / 30lb. Fishmeal boilies over beds of pellets available from our tackle shop accounting for a lot of fish. Carp are being taken from island margins as well as bankside margins. Pellet bags working well. The carp still follow the wind.

Conditions:

Summary:
From Swansea. Weather was warm and sunny in the day, becoming windy at night. Fished into the wind. Arrived at about 4pm, but all the cats and carp came between 10pm and 7am with a run every 1/2 hour during those times. As a consequence, had little sleep, but a great time! Lost 2 cats as well! Bob hadn't banked a cat before, so the 22lber was worth the wait, and put up some fight!

Notable Fish:
7 carp and 4 cats.
Biggest cat 22lb with others at 3lb, 10lb and 12lb.
Biggest carp 21lb, others ranging from 7 to 15lb.

Tactics and bait:
Fluro hooklinks with snowman boilie rigs.

Pictures: (click to enlarge)

Conditions: -

Summary:
This was the best days fishing I've had in a few years. It started off very quiet in the first hour. So i decided to bait all the surrounding margins with groundbait, sweetcorn, hemp, trout pellets and dog biscuits. This helped me to see where abouts the carp were feeding more. Once I had found them I fished consistently throughtout the day in the same place and it certainly paid off for me! Thanks to everyone at Celtic Lakes for a great day!

Notable Fish:
3 x 18lb commons ( biggest was 18lb 4oz )
1 x 16lb 4oz mirror
about 3 - 4 commons ranging from 13lb - 15lb
4 x 12lb commons and 1 x 14lb mirror
9 carp mirrors and commons underneath 10lb smallest being 4lb mirror

Tactics and bait:
Best bait of the day was getting whole thick sausages and cutting them in half and placing on a light hair rig with a size 8 wide gape hook. Fox 2.25 oz lead inline with rig tubing usued and was very effective. Left hand rod was using a bolt rig and a pop up hair rig. ( thick strip tease and big size 8 hook with dynamite baits Frank warwicks spicy tuna and sweet chilli pop ups ) I had this pop up popped off the bottom about an inch as the carp were very active on the top.

Conditions:

Summary:
Weather started overcast then sunny with moderate breeze. Fished to peninsula on lake 5 with size 12 Gardner mugga hair rigs with 14mm drilled halibut pellets soaked in salmon oil. Lots of pick up and drop runs but landed 4 commons and 3 mirrors, all singles between 5lb 8oz and 9lb 12oz to a total weight of 51lb 8oz. Excellent venue, which, to date always produces catches.

Notable Fish:
commons x 4
mirrors x 3

Tactics and bait:
Halibut pellet soaked in salmon oil hair rigged

Conditions: -

Summary:
I'm local, from New Quay and have fished the fishery a number of times and have never been let down with the quality of the fish, Always fish with the baits you think won't work as they tend to do so! I highly recommend the Richworth handy pack boilies especially the K-G-1 and Pineapple Hawaiian!

Notable Fish:
The 1st run I had was off a catfish but unhooked itself or dropped the bait. The 2nd run was off a very big carp easily 20lbs but lost it. The 3rd run was off another catfish but also lost that. I changed the hook size to a size 8 and had a 17lb 5oz common! Then plenty of 7lb mirrors and 10lb commons throughout the day.

Tactics and bait:
I got a kg of dynamite baits swimstim groundbait, got a 900g tin of hempseed, big tin of cheap sweetcorn, bag of 10mm halibut pellets and some Koi micro green pellets and mixed it all up into a damp mixed, enough to make balls with. Also I added some Richworth K-G-1 boilies to the mix and fed next to some lilies. This produced well, I could recommend that mix to anyone. You will need a good amount as I had to put in quite alot to keep the carp feeding!. But start off with small amounts as it may spook the carp.

Conditions:

Summary:
Weather was breezy and cloudy with rain overnight. Came up from Swansea. Dewi hadn't been coarse fishing before, but after all those carp is bound to go again! Pulled the rods in at midnight for 4 hours to get some kip! Dewi certainly learned how to catch carp as we had 2 on at the same time on 3 occasions. There's a lot of small carp in lake 5 now, more than when I fished it last year, but John told me that they are going to take them out at some point.

Notable Fish:
4 commons over 10lb. Biggest 12.5lb
Total of 30 fish in 20 hours, most around 5lb

Tactics and bait:
Didn't use any free offerings at all! Just fluoro hooklinks and snowman boilie rigs. Did put a rig out for the cats with 3 halibut pellets but only managed 3 carp under 5lb on it, including a 1lb common!!

Conditions: n/a

Summary:
Lost a cat while float fishing the margin, line snapped on its teeth. 5 carp (2 doubles), 3 bream and a 1lb 8oz perch in 5 hours, and I wasn't fishing hard.

Notable Fish:
I had 2 doubles out of a 5 carp catch, also getting a 1lb 8oz perch and losing a catfish.

Tactics and bait:
Float fishing the margins on cat meat over pellet.

Conditions: n/a

Notable Fish:
Weather not too bad, all the action come after 6pm when the first fish we caught was a 22lb common which is a new pb for me. My brother caught 2 cats at 26lb and 18 lb and then the rest of the carp were all under double figures. Well worth the 3 hour journey, defo be back.

Tactics and bait:
Korda flurocarbon ig hooklink, 25lb breaking strain with 15 lb hooklink boilies, used mainline fusion and the cell.

Conditions: n/a

Summary:
Fished lake 4 for 45 mins after work, caught 4 fish and lost one all around the 8lb mark, the mixer is the way to fish.

Tactics and bait:
Floater fishing mixer

Conditions:

Summary:
Cats mainly caught on island over the way from peg 23, got really close with bait boat. All cats caught in margins!

Top few days fishing! Great resort, will defo be back soon to get bigger cats!!

Notable Fish:
Between 4 of us angling for a 48 hour session we had 8 cats, 3 at 16 pound, 1 at 18 pound, 2 at 23 and 2 at 30 pound. Me and Ste also had 30 mins of floating dog biscuit and floating strawberry pellet around peg 17 in the bottom corner and both had mirror carp up to around double figures.

Tactics and bait:
Cats caught on Halibut pellets 4 or 5 tied together over beds of tuna sweetcorn and lots of groundbait and fish smelling pellets. Also a couple of cats caught on halibut boilie and 1 cat caught on milk chocolate pop up. Carp caught on dog biscuit and strawberry pellet on top.

Conditions:

Summary:
1st time visitor from Hattersley Hyde. Found the venue a bit off the beaten track but well worth the 4 hour journey. Defo going back but doing a full week next time and taking more pellets. Weather was red hot and still got plenty of runs despite most of the carp spawning.

Notable Fish:
4 cats: 1 at 30lb 4 oz, 1 at 23lb 6oz, 1 at 14lb, and 1 at 10lb
12lb common

Tactics and bait:
Korda safety bolt rig, 15lb main line with 40lb braided hook length, size 2 barbless hooks with 4 x 21mm halibut pellets hair rigged on peg 23. Fished tight to the far island using bait boat with some 21mm freebies and plenty of 6mm trout pellets and aided with a little salmon oil for extra attraction did the trick.

Conditions:

Summary:
Weather was hot all day with fish spawning everywhere but at around 7pm till 9am action was thick and fast.

Notable Fish:
6 Catfish, biggest 2 were 18lb 8 oz and 16lb.
plenty of carp to 14lb.

Tactics and bait:
Halibut pellet and fish/oyster boilies for cats and all sorts of boilies for carp.

Conditions: Mixed

Summary:
I am from LLansaint South West Wales, and this is my first visit to Celtic Lakes. The weather was warm, but a little bit windy on at the beginning, and then in the night it was windy and raining heavy until Wednesday afternoon. Fished from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon.

Notable Fish:
This was my first time fishing at this resort, and I was very impressed by the standard and quality of the fishing. I arrived here at 17:00 hours, and we started fishing very shortly after we got there. Within minutes of fishing, I caught two 1.5lb bream and they were a decent size. Shortly after I caught the two bream, I caught a 4lb common carp, and a 5lb mirror carp. Shortly after I caught more carp roughly the same size and below. We then set up the bivvy and prepared for the night fishing.

I caught many carp in quick succession, and the biggest one was an 11lb mirror carp. This is a personal best fish for me. The morning came and fishing was quick. I caught two 9lb common Carp and a 9.5lb mirror carp, and I was very pleased. I then caught many more carp around the 2-5lb mark. I caught the 11lb in the margins, and the rest of the fish in the centre of the lake.

Tactics and bait:
Cherry Boilies
Hempseed and Porridge mix
Dynamite Pellet mix Fake red Sweetcorn
Fake Maize Trout Pellets
Ground Bait and sweetcorn
Pepperami
Pineapple Boilies and boilie juice

Conditions: -

Summary:
We are regulars and come nearly every weekend.

Notable Fish:
During a 48hour session on lake 6 with my son, Daniel, we had 3 carp and 2 bream between us. But the best fish of the session was a 35lb 6oz catfish. What made it even better was that it was the biggest cat caught this year!!! mainline-korda adrenaline 12lb hooklink-15lb flurocarbon size 8 wide gape

Tactics and bait:
We used active8 mainline 18mm boilies over a bed of hemp pellet and maize

Conditions: -

Fishery Update:
Lake 6 starting to produce lots of fish to individual anglers now the water temp has risen. A lot of fish are in the throes of spawning so bear this in mind when you hook and play them to the net. Maize accounting for more fish than boilie approach at the moment. Fishing the margins during darkness produces and open water produces during daylight. The cats are now making regular appearances and don't appear to be fussy about what they eat. General carp tactics, boilie approach with pellets/ bags seem to be doing the business.

Don't forget to send in your catch report as it is an invaluable tool of info for other anglers who are visiting our waters. Tight lines.

Conditions: mixed

Summary:
Redditch, First visit, weather was windy and rainy to start but as visit progressed the weather improved

Notable Fish:
Mirror Carp 19lb 1oz, 15lb 8oz, 16lb 4oz
Common Carp 14lb 9oz & 17lb 12oz with 9 singles

Tactics and bait:
Used single 20mm Waka Crab & Liver boilies with pva bags of Simply Pellets blended pellets and crumbed boilie.

Conditions: mixed

Summary:
Second visit. Weather at start of visit windy and heavy rain.
Last couple of days very warm up to 21c

Notable Fish:
Mirror Carp 25lb 2oz, 17lb 12oz, 15lb 8oz.
Common Carp 15lb 8oz, 14lb 9oz & 12 singles
Catfish to 17lb 15oz
Tench to 4lb 5oz
Bream to 6lb 12oz

Tactics and bait:
Carp caught using Spa Baits "Waka" Crab & Liver 20mm single boilies with pva bags of Simply Pellets, Blended pellets and boilie crumb and glug.

Catfish caught on freelined 1/3rd tin Luncheon meat glugged with Spa baits Frankfurter.

Conditions: mixed

Summary:
Ist time visitors, fished Mon - Fri. Fishing steady throughout the week, cool easterly wind first two days, rain next two days. Bit of mouth damage to carp, and disappointed at lack of flush toilets and showers. Despite this we had a good time and will be back.

Notable Fish:
Shaun - loads of commons & mirrors to 18 1b, + 3 x cats to 11 1b
Gary - loads of carp to doubles
Nev - carp to doubles + cats of 16lb & 32lb.

Tactics and bait:
Carp on boilies (all sorts), cats falling to Halibut pellets

Conditions:

Summary:
Weather was extreme to say the least, high winds and driving rain but lake always fishes better in those conditions. Worth getting wet !

The wales carp masters qualify produced a few notable fish: 25lb mirror, 20lb common and a 27lb cat (shame it didn't count). An angler from Cardiff fished into the wind and was rewarded with a 22lb common and 5 other fish in a 24 hour session. The cats have woken from their slumber and are being caught all over the lake - a total of 27 cats have graced the bank so far since March including 9 twenties and a 33lb.

Notable Fish:
3 commons 15lb, 14lb 8oz, 13lb.
5 cats in total, 4 cats between 21lb - 24lb 6oz. and one kitten

Tactics and bait:
Commons all caught on single boilie with loose offerings spread over. Cats caught on Buzz bait Halibut boilies from our tackle shop and worm.

Conditions: windy

Summary:
Was windy as hell which is the norm apparently. Nice swims for the bivvies but the place is a bit barren looking.

Notable Fish:
2 Commons, 8 lb and 10 lb

Tactics and bait:
You name it, we tried it. The fish caught were to pop up tutti fruiti boilies over pellets

Conditions: windy

Summary:
2 hour drive from Cardiff. Strong westerly wind for 24hrs. Lovely venue and staff. Well worth a go.

Notable Fish:
Common carp 22lb plus 3 other low doubles

Tactics and bait:
Method and fish boilie

Conditions:

Summary:
Carp masters qualifier. Weather was awful with strong winds and sideways rain on the second night. Fishing was very slow until the last night when they really did start feeding with a fish every 3/4 of an hour. The 27lb cat was a bit of a surprise, and although it didn't count, who cares ... 3 PB\'s (2 for me, one for my dad). Overall 200lb of fish.

Notable Fish:
27lb catfish, 12lb catfish, 8.5lb catfish, 25lb mirror, 16lb mirror, 5 other fish over 10lb, 2 bream which fought like plastic bags!

Tactics and bait:
Either snowman rigs or single boilie

Pictures: (click to enlarge)

Conditions:

Summary:
West Midlands, First visit, Weather changeable but mainly dry and sunny.
23 caught in total most were in top condition and very clean with no signs of leeches or lice

Notable Fish:
Mirror Carp: 10lb 3oz & 15lb

Tactics and bait:
Luncheon Meat with NO free offerings

Conditions: warm

Summary:
I badgered my hubby to take me for the afternoon up to lake 6. Weather was warm with cool westerly breeze. Had a really enjoyable 5 hours. I was well happy with my fish especially as it was the first time I had caught a catfish. I noticed on a recent catch report that an angler commented on poor fishing, maybe it was poor angling !

Notable Fish:
11lb common, 9lb 8oz linear.
2 cats 11lb and 6lb 8oz

Tactics and bait:
Cats were caught on popped up halibut pellets. Carp were caught on single boilie with scattering of freebies

Conditions: windy / warm

Notable Fish:
11lb 14oz common, 8 fish all above 6lb

Tactics and bait:
Floater fishing mixer, or red squid boilie over pellet

Conditions:

Summary:
Weather dry, overcast with a little wind. Started using hair-rigged pepperami on rod 1 fishing in margins to the left. Rod 2 hair rigged kiwi and crustacean boilie fished straight out to peninsula. In the first hour I had landed a 16lb common, lost 2 good sized commons at the net, all on rod 1. Changed to pepperami on both rods and landed another common just below 16lb and a mirror of 11lb. Missed another 2 and had loads of runs before bait was dropped.

A very enjoyable days fishing, only next time I'll try to cut down on the losses!

Notable Fish:
Common Carp 16lb
Common Carp 15lb 12oz
Mirror Carp 11lb

Tactics and bait:
Sliding Ledger, Gardner Mugga size 12 barbless

Conditions:

Summary:
Traveled from Preston, first time here and it was great, the heavy rain didn't stop the runs. 24 hour session, 7 fish, 9 runs, including a lost catfish. Bailiff and locals were very helpful, thanks very much!

Notable Fish:
12lb, 5lb 8oz, 4lb 12oz, 4lb 8oz, 2x 4lb and 3lb 12oz all being Mirror Carp

Tactics and bait:
Fished a variety of baits, had runs on them all. Baits were tiger nut boilie, tutti frutti pop-up, 21mm halibut pellet and worms and dead bait both intended for the catfish. Had my 12lb on 21mm halibut pellet, my 2x 4lb, 4lb 8oz and 5lb 8oz on tutti frutti pop-up and my 3lb 12oz on a tiger nut boilie. Lost a catfish on a deadbait late in the evening and had the 4lb 12oz carp on the worms. Carp methods were fished with PVA bags, whilst the catfish baits were put over a heap of Celtic Lakes groundbait.

Conditions:

Summary:
6 anglers from Somerset spent 4 days 3 nights, very poor fishing with less than 200lb caught. Sunny days but cold in the night

Notable Fish:
Best fish were 2 x 16lb carp and a 6lb kitten.

Tactics and bait:
Various baits, mostly black crab boilies.

Conditions:

Summary:
First time at Celtic Lakes. Heavy rain, but didn`t stop us from a 24 hour session - 4 hours from Preston.

Notable Fish:
Matt's biggest 11lb and kev`s 11lb 8oz but a lot more smaller carp were caught.

Tactics and bait:
Halibut pellet and tutti frutti pop up were most effective on the day

Conditions: -

Notable Fish:
9lb simmo and a 14lb common

Tactics and bait:
red squid boilie over a halibut pellet

Conditions: -

Summary:
fished 3 nights but pulled the rods in at 9 pm every night and put them back out at 9 am ish in the morning

Notable Fish:
30 fish in 3 days of fishing biggest fish up to 14lb 12oz

Tactics and bait:
boilies over a lot of method mix

Conditions: -

Notable Fish:
2 cats around 15 - 18lb

Tactics and bait:
2 large halibut pellets

Conditions: -

Summary:
short evening session

Notable Fish:
12lb common, 2 smaller commons and 3 simmo's

Tactics and bait:
cat meat over pellet and halibut pellet

Conditions: -

Summary:
Quick evening session 3-8pm - great fishing, only needed one float rod, 6 fish caught.

Notable Fish:
12lb common

Tactics and bait:
Cat meat over trout pellet

Conditions: -

Notable Fish:
1 cat around the 15lb mark

Tactics and bait:
worm

Conditions: -

Notable Fish:
29lb 4oz catfish.

Tactics and bait:
lamprey on hair rig

Pictures: (click to enlarge)

Conditions:

Summary:
From swansea. Windy, with heavy rain overnight. Had 3 fish in first hour. Then none for 14hrs until the night. 21 pound fish came at 5.30am in open water. Tough fishing at times, but definitely worth it!

Notable Fish:
21.5lb Common, 2 x 10lbers, 1 x 9lb common and 2 x 6lb mirrors.

Tactics and bait:
Simple mono rigs with boilies and artificial sweetcorn.
9lb common fell to method fed pellet.

Picture: (click to enlarge)

Conditions: -

Summary:
Conditions ... warmer than it has been. Fish fed literally for 1 hour in a 13 hour stint. Hopefully the warmer weather will lead to longer spells of feeding

Notable Fish:
Common 12lb, common 7lb

Tactics and bait:
Snowman rig with mono hooklinks

Conditions:

Summary:
Weather was windy cold and frosty, sleety. There were four of us traveled from the west midlands: two caught, 3 fish in total, caught a small mirror of 6 pounds.

Notable Fish:
two 14 pounders

Tactics and bait:
Trigga ice boilie and tiger nuts over hemp.
Helicopter rigs used.

Images: (click to enlarge)

Conditions:

Summary:
Sunny but very windy.

Notable Fish:
9 carp to 15lb, average weight about 8lb.

Tactics and bait:
Source boilies over a bed of hemp and corn

Conditions:

Summary:
Wet and windy day, poor conditions. Great half day fishing with 4 on the bank.

Notable Fish:
11lb Mirror personal best
12lb 12oz Common personal best

Tactics and bait:
Trout pellet method feeder (11), squid and tangerine boilie with pva bag (12) both over halibut pellet.

Images: (click to enlarge)

Conditions: n/a

Summary:
not available

Notable Fish:
1 mirror and 3 cats. All 4 fish were around the 15lb mark.

Tactics and bait:
not available

Conditions:

Summary:
Weather was really windy and wet.

Notable Fish:
No big fish, but plenty got caught and lost. Fished really well for conditions.

Tactics and bait:
Method on one rod and boilie over pellet on the other ... had 7 lost 5

Conditions: n/a

Summary:
Decided to fish an overnight session as weather had been quite settled for the last few days with regards the air temp and wind direction and the fish have started to show around the lake. Towards the eve wind dropped right off and cloud disappeared resulting in clear cold night as temp dropped to 1 degree and a ground frost. Not ideal conditions but was quite happy with the 3 fish at the end of session.
2 anglers from south wales fished on the point between the islands on the 12th and banked a 21lb common and 22lb mirror in an eleven fish catch.
Lake 5 is producing fish to all anglers with lots of mid doubles gracing the nets with heaviest fish this week a 19lb common.

Notable Fish:
3 commons. 10lb , 12lb 4oz, 14lb 2oz

Tactics and bait:
critically balanced snowman rig on running lead, mono hooklink.

Conditions: n/a

Summary:
Fished the deeper water in the South East corner of the lake. Roughly 12 degrees during daylight hours and dropped off to about 4 degrees by midnight. South South Westerly wind.

Notable Fish:
7 Carp between 7lbs and 15lbs, the largest being a common

Tactics and bait:
Fluoro pop ups on mono rigs with mesh bags of low oil pellet

Conditions:

Summary:
I am a regular visitor and live about 10 minutes away

Notable Fish:
7 pound, 7 pound 12 oz Mirrors

Tactics and bait:
King crab and muscle boilie with a fluorescent pop-up and caviar boilie with fluorescent pop-up at the end.

Conditions: dry/still

Summary:
This was my second trip, the first was early last December when I caught 3 carp between 6 and 14lb also on Lake 5. I drove up from Swansea (1hr 15min drive) and arrived at 09-00hrs. Weather was dry with little wind and about 6 degrees temp. Being partially disabled this venue is excellent as access is very good with very tidy pegs to fish from, and hopefully I will come here on a regular basis. It is a little more expensive than some other "specimen" venues but the owners have put in a lot of work around the site and Gary, the bailiff, was very helpful when I was there.

Notable Fish:
Mirror carp 5lb 8oz
Common carp 9lb 8oz

Tactics and bait:
kiwi and crustacean double boilie hair rigged to size 12 gardner mugga barbless on rod 1.
Single piece of pepperami hair rigged on size 12 gardner mugga barbless.

Conditions:

Summary:
I normally fish in Essex and this was my 2nd visit, weather was dry light wind and about 11 degrees - bright

Notable Fish:
12lb common

Tactics and bait:
I had 7 carp landed during the session 9am - 4pm lost a few as well. Most were caught on double sweetcorn on float rod with 4lb line. Also caught on strawberry midi boilie and plain luncheon meat.

Conditions: n/a

Summary:
It was my first time fishing lake 3 and it was a cool start to the morning. During the day I began to warm up nicely but i still had no luck. I moved one of my rods every hour to find the fish but I still could not find them ... the other rod I kept in the margins and every 30mins I would flick in a few pieces of maize. By now it was 3 o'clock and I only had another 2 hours left so I decided to move to Lake 4 because I had nothing to lose. Within 10mins of being there I had a screaming take and as my margin rod bent to the left and I had a nice lower double mirror then a 6 other fish followed including a 15lb 2oz mirror and a 15lb 12oz common.

Notable Fish:
5 common carp biggest=15lb 12oz, 2 mirror carp biggest=15lb 2oz

Tactics and bait:
Size 10 wide gape b korda hook with 8lb fluro carbon hook link. And with a simple running inline lead. I fished 2 pieces of maize over a hand full of hemp in the margins.

Conditions: warmer

Summary:
Due to fr