Newsletter for March 2010

Posted 22/03/2010 by: Lin
Category: News

March 2010
We are still continuing to sell our freezer bait in various boillie sizes at 4.00 pounds for half kilo.
Dip at 5.00 pounds per tub.
Pellets of various sizes and oil content for 1.50 pound per kilo.
We are now doing mixed particals at 1.00 pound per bag.
New for this year gas will be available in 500g screw ons, and the slimline cartrigdge type.
As you can see by the catch report, the 20lbers are starting to show a bit more with a good back-up of upper doubles. This is a great start for the season. For any further info just give me a call.

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News update Jan/Feb

Posted 08/02/2010 by: Lin
Category: News

January newsletter
There was not much to report during Jan due to being frozen for most of the month. So we thought we would take the opportunity to look back and see what has been acheived over the last 6 years at Rainbow Lake.
Access is reasonably good, with car parks provided and over 50% of the pegs (weather permitting) can be parked behind. The pegs are of a good size, well maintained and Klinik to treat your catch, and very shortly will be tidied up and woodchipped for the coming season.
The stock
When we puchased the lake in 2003 we inherited plenty of small fish for the maggot angler and a reasonable head of carp consisting of mirrors, commons, ghosties and a few grass carp. Since then we have introduced approx 8,000 roach to help manage the abundence of natural food in the lake.
Then the introduction of carp, we selected Mark Simmons Fisher Pond strain, originally bred by John Paton, these mirrors really bang on the weight. First introduced in Dec 2004, 40 at 3lb to 6lb at 3 years old. These fish could be 18lb plus by now.
February 2006 we stocked 5 times 22lb to 26lb fish of the same strain. Supplied at 7 years old should have made 30lb now, but unfortunatley due to the 2007 floods, we sadly lost 3, but 2 are still there, so a 30lb Simmo is just round the corner.
November 2006 we stocked 25 times 12lb to 14lb of the same strain at 5 years old, these also took a bit of a hammering during the floods, but with almost 50% left these fish are knocking on the door of 20lb.
March 2008 saw us bringing in a new strain supplied by Andy Parker, he supplied us with 37 of his very scallie mirrors at 3lb to 4lb which were 3 years old when stocked. During 2009 the biggest we had caught that weighed in at 9lb 10oz, not a bad growth rate in 18 months.
February 2010 we added 10 times 19lb to 22lb fish delivered by Mark Simmons at 6 years old these are some of the best fish on the market, and as we write this 26th Feb 2010, 8 mirrors and 2 commons, 8 of which are 20lb plus are having their first night in Rainbow Lake. Many thanks to John, Mark, Steve and Ian for the smooth intro, Graham for the delivery and especially to Mark Simmons for the superb fish.
So as you can see with the continued support we have been getting and hopefully new faces as well, we think we are on a winner and so are our anglers. Some are fortunate to go home better dressed than when they came, with one of our free hoodies for a fish over 20lb. One angler every year gets 12 months free fishing for landing the biggest fish of the year. It does not get much better than Rainbow Lake. In our opinion anyway, John and Lin

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