Category Archives: Stocking News

2012 August – EA stocking of the River Colne

The EA have had a particularly successful barbel breeding. So much so that they were able to provide us with some small barbel. The EA have stocked with about 2000 fish in total. About 700 were put up in the (more…)

Stock Pond Working Party

Mark Brady is organising a working party on Saturday 4th August to move fish between the stock ponds so that we can leave a smaller number in the main pond for feeding over the summer. *********Any one able to help (more…)

Stocking plans

Just an update on the stocking: We are continuing with our stocking policy. As you all know we have fish growing on in the main stock pond following the succesful work with VS Fisheries. We introduced 13 fish of the (more…)

2012 06 Stock Pond Feeder

We now have an automatic feeder set up on the main stock pond to help ensure the stock fish continue to get the right quantity of feed. (more…)

Stocking – April 2012

Pictures of the fish stocking 4/12. Please help us track progress of all fish by submitting your catch photos / weights to Chris. [album id=2] (more…)

2012 March – Stock Pond

Here are some photos of the fish that are growing on in the main stock pond, taken in Feb/Mar 2012. (more…)

2012 Newsletter –Lake Carp Stocking Programme

You will all know the history by now of our intentions to breed from Springwell stock. The whole initiative is still going very well. The offspring held at VS fisheries are now, unbelievably, up to a top weight of 21b (more…)

2011 Newsletter – Feeding of Fish in Stock Ponds

These fish are on a controlled diet. Under NO circumstances are members to feed these fish or introduce bait of any kind into the stock ponds. When the netting mentioned above was carried out I was appalled at the number (more…)

2011 Newsletter – Lake Carp Stocking Programme

I mentioned in last year’s newsletter our plans to cross a male carp from the established Springwell stock with selected females. Our male carp was duly caught by Steve  Young on June 16th last year and so began 36 hours (more…)

2010 Newsletter – River stocking

We recently undertook a stocking of mixed species to the river. It is difficult to accurately say how many fish were introduced but my best guess was approaching two thousand. Within the stock were approximately 200 barbel in the 5”- (more…)