Rainbow Lake

Jan Feb 2010

Lin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:02:14 +0000

Quick update to let you know what is going on.
Due to the poor weather conditions, we were frozen up for 4 or 5 weeks, with only the odd day with out the white stuff. But a few brave soles have turned out, and Dave Chalk was the first to catch an 18lb 2oz mirror from Peg 22 using a chod rig with a white chocolate pop up, it looked just great in the snow this is the second year running that Dave has taken the first fish of the year out of the lake.
Then a new commer to the lake Dan who fished peg 11 after the ice had been broken, caught a lovely 17lb 8oz common at 4am. Dan is in the early stages of carp fishing and this is his PB, well done Dan and we hope to see you again soon, maybe a hoody next visit Dan.
Great start to the New Year.

News update Jan/Feb

Lin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:47:32 +0000

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

News Jan 2010

Lin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:15:23 +0000

Firstly we would like to wish all anglers to the site a Happy New Year.
We have not updated the site for a while, sorry for that, but we have been frozen over the last 4 weeks, all clear and ice free now, but for any updates just give me a call and I will let you know.
Congratulations Nigel Seally for winning the 24 hour yearly pass for the biggest fish.
We will be selling boillies, pellets and particals guarenteed available by again giving me a call.
We are all looking forward to a good 2010 hoping the fishing gets back to normal and not a hard as it has been since the floods.
For any further information please contact John either by phone 07867918976 or by email john@rainbowlake.co.uk

News report 1st November 2009

Lin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:42:10 +0000

Newsletter 1st November 2009

Congratulations to Ben for catching his PB 21lber and to Mark who is one of our regulars here at Rainbow.
The nights are now drawing in and the number of anglers is dwindling, so as the catch report reflects, not so many fish caught.
When you come down to Rainbow at this time of the year you may find the gates locked, unfortunatly this has to be done as the tracks around the lake are all grass and churn up easily during these wet conditions. This does not mean we are closed, it just means which ever peg you choose, it will mean a walk, so if you have a barrow you are more than welcome to use it.
Anyone interested in particals, we do a mix consisting of hemp, wheat, maze and maple peas ready prepared and in bags of appox 1 kg at the price of £1 per bag. As with our boillies these must be pre-ordered to save dissapointment.

Catch Report 1st Nov 2009

Lin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:26:12 +0000

Catch Report 1st Nov 2009

Peg 1 an 8lb 10oz
Peg 7 produced a 10lb 8oz, 14lb 6oz
Peg 9 gave a 15lb 10oz
Peg 12 a 10lber, 16lb 11oz, 17lb 6oz, 14lb 8oz, 21lber for Mark, 15lb 4oz
Peg 15 a 15lb 13oz, and lllb 6oz
Peg 18 a fat 21lber PB for Ben
Peg 21 a 10lber
Peg 22 produced a 15lb 12oz
Peg 24 a 7lb 6oz
Peg 25 gave a 14lber

Newsletter August 2009

Lin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:00:39 +0000

News for August 2009

Although not mentioned in the catch report, several stockies were caught between 7lb and 8lb 8oz so weight is increasing at a good rate. Also bream from several areas between 7lb and 10lb. As you can see from the catch report fishing not at its best, but as we all know August is not paticularly a good month. A lot of the fish appear to be in mid water or near the top and weather permitting dog biscuits maybe worth a try.
As some of you may have noticed peg 31 and others are closed on weekends to enable pegs 1 to 7 to benifit from far bank fishing.
As of the 1st September and for the rest of the comming month we will not be allowing anglers on the lake after 8pm unless prior arrangements have been made. This time will change on a monthly basis during the winter months. The reason being its very difficult to set up and position rigs where required in the dark and less disturbing for anglers with lines already out.
PLEASE NOTE WE ARE NOW SELLING COOKED MIXED PARTICALS AT £1 PER KILO, just buy on the bank or per-order by calling. This is in addition to our boillie and pellets sales already available through bank-side, or telephone orders.

Catch Report August 2009

Lin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:44:51 +0000

August 2009

Peg 1 a 17lb 10oz, 13lb 7oz, 14lb 7oz, 12lber, 14lber, 15lb 11oz
Peg 2 a 15lber
Peg 4 a 16lber
Peg 6 producted a 13lb 4oz, 16lb 8oz, 15lb 8oz
Peg 7 a 10lber
Peg 9 a 14lb 11oz
Peg 11 a 17lber
Peg 17 a 15lb 6oz
Peg 18 gave a 15lb 2oz, 19lb 2oz, 14lb 14oz
Peg 19 a 14lb 2oz, 14lb 6oz, 12lb 4oz, 15lb 3oz
Peg 30 produced a 13lb 9oz

July Newsletter

Lin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:22:17 +0000

July, what has happened to the bbq summer, I think not, still the te
mperatures have been quite high, and the winds strong causing ripple constantly on the lake. Not noted to be one of the best months on the carping calander as the catch report shows. Normally a few more fish would have come of the top, but the ripple and rain has put a stop and made surface fishing considerably harder. Which hopefully with a more seasonal August this may improve, but the anglers have managed to winkle out quite a few tidy fish during difficult times.
For the course fishing angler they have had better results with roach, bream and tench falling to corn and pellet, pegs 1, 7, 19 and 21 giving the better catch, with various other pegs producing mixed bags.
Roll on Summer.

July Catch Report

Lin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:02:19 +0000

Peg 1 a 13lb 7oz, 10lb 6oz, 17lber, 15lb 8oz, 14lb 7oz
Peg 2 produced a 17lb 12, 14lber
Peg 4 gave a 14lb 7oz, 12lb 6oz and a 20lb 12oz, 10lb 6oz, 15lber, 14lb 8oz, 13lber, 8lber, 16lber
Peg 6 a 5lber, 8lber, 12lb 5oz, 14lb 3oz, 8lb 7oz
Peg 7 a 14lb 2oz, 13lber
Peg 9 a 15lb 3oz
Peg 10 gave a 15lber
Peg 18 a 15lb 2oz
Peg 19 an 8lber, 15lb 2oz
Peg 21 a 11lb 7oz
Peg 22 produced a 14lber, 13lb 9oz, 17lb 10oz
Peg 24 gave a 14lb 8oz
Peg 31 a l3lb 9oz

June Newsletter

Lin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:17:15 +0000

The news for June must start off with spawning, although it started in May the fish have continued into June and only last week had another go.
On the hot fine days plenty of fish could be seen on or near the top enjoying the sunshine, with dog biscuits or floaters tempting some of them onto the hook during the day, although the fish seem to know which biscuit has the hook, much to the annoyance of you guys.
Night time bottom baits used although still proving difficult but more productive in the shallower swims or in the deeper swims down the margins.
Due to the fact that a few fish have been lost in the thickest of the lillie pads, thinning out of these pads is progressing when pegs become available to work on.
With more unstettled weather forecast for July hopefully the fish will respond and the catch rate will increase.
The maggot anglers have been coming and catching quite readilly, with a few tench, skimmers, roach and rudd showing but with the majority of perch. Some of the anglers have had substantial catches of 200+ fish per session. Pegs 2, 6, 7, 9, 12, 17 and 18 producing such results consistantly.