Temple Lake Latest Catches week ending 20/5/18

Three more ‘thirties’ continued the run of big fish on Temple, including famous carp Friar Tuck, reported for the first time in over a year.
On-form Jon Botting landed the big mirror at 31 lb 4 oz from peg 1 at 8am, on an A2 Baits Creamy Toffee pop-up during a three-night session.
Jon, who landed Two Tone the week before at 36 lb 2 oz in a brace of ‘thirties’, has had most of the lake’s biggest fish apart from The Ghost and Nemo.
Friar Tuck was last reported captured in April last year by Mark Savage at 36 lb 2 oz, and the heaviest reported capture was in April 2014 at 38 lb to Terry Brown.
Also getting among the ‘thirties’ was lake regular Terry Burns, from West Sussex, who had a 34 lb 4 oz mirror, along with commons of 22 lb and 18 lb 3 oz, from peg 11 on Mainline Essential Cell.
And Ray Harding had a 31 lb mirror and a common of 27 lb, to go with fish of 23 lb 8 oz and 18 lb 8 oz, all from peg 9.
Also landing a 27 lb fish was Adrian Wood, from Basingstoke, who had commons of 27 lb and 15 lb from peg 2 on single 15 mm Mainline Peaches & Cream and Cell wafters.

PLEASE NOTE: LEAD CORE IS BANNED ON BOTH TEMPLE AND THE OLD LAKE. PLEASE SEE KEN IN THE SHOP FOR FURTHER DETAILS.