Match Lake

This lake has been featured in the Angling Times ‘Top 20 Tench Waters’ in the country. It has 31 swims - 8 of these are on a central island accessed by a footbridge. There are six other islands plus many other features giving each swim an individual feel.

The banks of the Match Lake are steep, creating a good depth of water tight to the features.

The Match Lake is planted with trees, native shrubs, bullrushes, and irises.
The lake is heavily stocked with a mixture of carp - common (to 19lb), mirror (to 15lb), koi, crucian; tench (to 5lb); golden tench (to 3lb); bream (to 5lb); skimmer bream; roach (to 1.5lb); rudd; golden orfe; chub; perch.

The lake is best known for its beautiful tench, crucians and fantailed crucians along with silver fish.

The current pleasure bag record on this lake is held by John Harrison with a bag of 138lb. The record was previously held by Mike Smith with 135lb.

Following our listing in the 'Top 20 Tench Waters', we decided to make it even better for tench fishing by adding new stock as part of our 30th Anniversary celebrations.

We netted our stock lakes, and Reg & Brian transferred a lovely variety of super fish into the Match Lake.

Some work carried out to remove snags and silt from the Match Lake, the silt was placed on the islands and behind the nicospan wall to strengthen the banks.

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