Pit 2 BANK PROTECTION WORK
A big thank you is due to all those who helped with unloading the delivery of planted coir rolls and the subsequent installation. The 10 person installation team managed to complete the task in record time and, as can be seen from the photo, the finished job already looks good. Thanks to the support received, we will not need to close the lake this coming Saturday (14th September).
Having now experienced what is involved we can start thinking about the timing of when we deal with the remaining stretch of bank next year.
PIT 3 PHASE OF THE OF50th ANNIVERSARY PROJECT
Having worked through the tangle of red tape to ensure any necessary permissions were obtained to do the work, obtaining quotations and applying for grants it is now full steam ahead to deliver the project.
Thanks to the Thursday work party members, a lot of the bankside vegetation has been cut but there is still more to do and additional days are being worked, please contact us if you can help.
Many of the fish have been removed and put in our other waters through a combination of fishing for them and using hand nets whilst pumping the water. Thanks are due to those from the coir installation team and others for lending a hand during the pumping.
The water has mostly been pumped out with our Treasurer Paul Moss volunteering to bivvy up for four days and nights to keep the pump running and secure so we are indebted to him.
We have plans afoot for the last of the fish and water to be removed this Sunday morning, please come and help if you can, even if its just to collect buckets of clean water from Pit 4 to help move the fish to Pit 1.
We remain on target to deliver the bulk of the work by the 31st December although it is unlikely to be available to fish until the 2026 season.
THE NOT SO GOOD NEWS
Yet again we have received several reports of the main gates at both Kessingland and Reydon being left open.
Please ensure you properly lock the gate at Kessingland. At Reydon, don't just let the gate go and hope it will click into place, please make sure you do it manually and positively.
Finally, it is unbelievable that after a break of several years, we have just had another incident of somebody defecating alongside one of the paths, this time on Pit 2. As well as there being no attempt to clean it up, this members only lake even has a toilet available just 6 pegs away. Totally disgusting and unacceptable behaviour and not what we expect from our members. Anybody caught doing such a thing will be immediately suspended from the Society pending a disciplinary with the likelihood of expulsion.
It is also necessary to say that banding names of possible culprits about without actual evidence is also unacceptable and hurtful. Currently, as far as we can determine, the incident is likely to have happened during the early hours of Monday 9th September. If you have any knowledge of who was about that morning then please let our bailiff or a committee member know.
SO HOW IS THE FISHING
Now the weather is cooling some nice catches of bream are being reported from Kessingland along with the odd tench.
Reydon Pit 1 continues to produce carp in the 15 to 20lb range as well as mixed bags if Ide and Tench although less bream are showing.
Pit 2, tench in the 3 to 6lb range continue to show (up to 9 in a session). A 7lb 8oz bream came to the bank this week and a mixed bag including 31 of the crucians introduced earlier this year reported. Quite a few 20lb plus carp still coming out with rumours of at least one much larger fish.
Pit 4, the weed has been much reduced this year and it continues to deliver to those who give it a go. Limited reports but a 24lb fish was landed yesterday.
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