News
Alderson New Lake
Work started on excavating
the new canal type lake on the 14th April 2008 and will be completed in
approximately 2-3 weeks. Members are asked to avoid areas around the excavation
until further notice.
More Carp For Barham
Finally after a long wait, carp
that were ordered months ago were delivered to Barham today 6/12/07
22 carp were delivered today most
over 10lb plus a few just over the 7lb mark. below are some of the pictures
taken on their arrival at Barham.
New Lake for Alderson.
As mentioned in an earlier news feature, Gaps has now got full planning
permission for the construction of a canal type fishery, by joining the
existing stock ponds behind Alderson Large Lake (excluding the bream stock pond)
Work will initially start on the 17th December 2007 with clearance of the site,
we ask members are to avoid the area until site clearance has been completed.
This will take approximately 1 week. Work to excavate the fishery will commence
in the spring of 2008. Financing the venture has not been easy, all of the money
raised has been in the way of grants, these have been obtained by applying to
local and national award bodies such as:-
-
AWARDS FOR ALL
-
SUFFOLK ENVIRONMENT
TRUST
-
SUFFOLK COUNTY
COUNCIL
-
SUFFOLK DISABLED
ANGLERS FORUM
-
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
-
When completed the
fishery will be suited to all anglers with the emphasis on disabled
and juniors members
Big Carp from Barham B Pit
Harry Gould aged 15 with another cracking carp
weighing in at 29lb 4oz caught at Barham on the 16th August 07
Alderson produces first
30lb Carp
Below is Lee Beckley with a cracking
31lb 4oz carp from Alderson large lake, caught on 2nd Aug 07 on a pole, it took
Lee 45 minutes to land this monster
Fish refuges for
Alderson Large Lake
As part of the ongoing
project to protect and develop the fish stocks at Alderson lake, four fish
refuge's have been installed by the Society. These refuge's are designed
to be floating islands tethered down to the bottom of the lake. The
islands sit above a mesh cage which allows fish to go in and out of but
stop predators such as cormorants from following them. This will hopefully
give smaller fish and fry the chance to find a safe haven in the event of
predators coming near. The roots of the plants on the top of the island,
will, over a short period of time then hang down making a more natural
habitat underwater. Above water the island is planted with a variety of
plants which again as and when they become established will look pleasing
to the eye and give anglers a target to aim at when fishing. Currently
these are covered in netting to protect waterfowl from uprooting these and
nesting on the top of the islands. When the plants then become established
we can remove the netting if we desire to do so.. In the meantime anglers
will have to cast with care!!
Click on pictures to
enlarge
*************************
Friday 20th April 2007
Alderson Small Lake saw
another great haul from regular Tom Webb. Tom's catch included 13 tench and 3
carp all about the 3lb mark
Friday the 13th April
2007
Saw regular gaps angler with
a great haul from Alderson Small Lake. His catch comprised of 8 tench and 3 carp
2007 Annual General Meeting
This years AGM was attended
by a mere 39 members .It was agreed by unanimous voting that the membership fees
would go up this year as follows: Adults up by £2
Intermediates up by £1, OAPs
and Disabled up by £1, Juniors remained the same, and Night permits up by £1.
This is inline with the continuing increase in water rents and the continuing
stocking policy and maintenance to all waters.
Committee members standing
down and not wishing to be re-elected where B Annal and M Moore, replacing them
will be R Bloomfield and P Pollard. Gaps would like to take this opportunity in
thanking retiring committee members for their unselfish services to the club and
welcome new members onto the committee.
********************
Planning application has been submitted to
construct a new canal type fishery at Alderson Lake. 3 of the stock ponds and
area's around them will be excavated to a shallow depth, and to provide fishing
from 18-20 pegs.
Match News
Bob Fuller managed to catch 61lb of
bream in the Alderson
Lake Trophy match
on Sunday 18th June 06. Unfortunately no one had a camera handy.
10 lb 14oz Tench from Barham
Terry Lunn with a superb specimen
from Barham, can you guess what peg he was fishing from!
Fish saved at Christchurch Park
Due to poor water quality, and at
the request of park officials, GAPS members netted the round pond at
Christchurch Park Ipswich where we managed to get nearly 2500 roach with some of them
nearly up to 1lb
Fish Stocks
The ongoing programme of
stocking continues with the latest arrivals being 185 small carp of
approximately 1lb into the small lake at Alderson. These were introduced at
the beginning of April 06 and have already shown to pleasure anglers. We also
had approximately 2500 roach released into the large lake at Alderson in
May. On top of this we have also stocked large amounts of Roach, Rudd and
skimmer Bream into Alderson large lake over the past year.
The programme will continue
again this year with more stock being purchased when funds are available.
The amount of money we are able to spend depends on the membership and
numbers that re-new or join the society. Therefore the earlier you
join this year gives the committee a better view of our finances and what we
can afford to spend. To help with this please re-new your membership as
early as possible.
More Bream introduced into Alderson
On Monday the 7th November 05 we
had 1100 6 to 8 inch bream delivered to Alderson this is part of the order of
1700 that we placed.
Below, nice catch for GAPS secretary
Dick Young at Barham 'B'
---------------------------
Restocking of Alderson continues with more roach,
bream and carp to be introduced before the start of the new season......
Listed below are the numbers of
fish Gaps have purchased or acquired during the 2004/2005 season..
-
April 04:- 2600 Rudd Alderson
Stock Ponds
-
May 04:- 860 Roach Alderson Large
Lake
-
July 04:- 304 Roach Alderson Large
Lake
-
Nov 004:- 426 Roach +160 Rudd
Alderson Large Lake
-
Nov 04:- 1000 Bream 6-8" Alderson
Large Lake
-
Jan 05:- 3900 Roach 4-6" Alderson
Large Lake
-
March 05:- 1000 Bream 4-5"
Alderson Large Lake
Stock Ponds
The Bream, Rudd and Roach stock
ponds will produce significant quantities for 2005/2006 season, approximate
numbers are as listed:
-
Roach several hundreds
-
Rudd 2600
-
Bream 1500
Above are
biologist Barry Howard and GAPS match secretary cropping the bream stock pond,
ready to introduce into the large lake at Alderson
Above is the
average size of the bream reared in the stock ponds at Alderson.
Biologist Barry
Howard introducing some 300+ bream into the small lake at Alderson from the
stock ponds.
Match secretary
introducing roach into the large lake at Alderson from the stock ponds
April 2005
Will see the introduction of
several hundred various sized mirror/common carp in the small lake at Alderson
Work Parties
Not had hardly any response , come on people
Alderson Small Lake
Over 500 carp where introduced to the lake in the first
week of April '05', these range from 8oz - 3lb
Above are some
of the smaller carp being released into the small lake at Alderson
Above and below
are some of the larger carp being introduced in the small lake, Alderson
|
