Old Lake Latest Catches week ending 17/11/19 It takes a lot to put the Old Bury Hill bream off the feed, match anglers having broken the ice in past seasons and still landed a good few. On Wednesday, it still took 32 lb 14 oz to win the latest Open, John Radford finishing top from…
Old Lake Latest Catches week ending 10/11/19 You never quite know what you will catch when you put a bait out for zander on the Old Lake, but the chances are you will get plenty of action. Kent angler Dave Wayman was fishing peg 10 on the Front Bank, and his eight chances led to…
Old Lake Latest Catches week ending 3/11/19 It seems to be a prime time for catching common carp, on Temple and on the Old Lake, as Sam Godwin, from Fetcham, showed with his catch of ten carp, all commons, on a 24-hour visit. Sam was fishing peg 15 on Friday into Saturday and had fish…
Old Lake Latest Catches week ending 27/10/19 Although the nights are getting cooler, it takes a while for the water temperature to drop, due to the heat built up over the summer, so the Old Lake’s carp are still keen to feed in numbers. Elliot Hunter, from Aldershot, took full advantage during an overnighter on…
Old Lake Latest Catches week ending 20/10/19 There are so many zander being caught on the Old Lake that even the match anglers are getting in on the act, landing a 10 lb 12 oz fish while after bream. Captor of last week’s 9 lb 14 oz zed, Pete Williamson, shared 40 zander runs with…
Old Lake Latest Catches week ending 13/10/19 The start of the predator season is usually a prime time for good catches, before the fish wise-up to being fished for after the six-months lay-off. And this year was no exception, producing plenty of fish and the added bonus of at least three specimens, the biggest 12…
Old Lake Latest Catches week ending 6/10/19 It is great to be able to sit down at almost any peg on the Old Lake and catch lots of sizeable bream, perhaps over 100 lb in a day. But that’s what you can do at present, the latest club match, with Hackbridge AS, being won with…
Old Lake Latest Catches week ending 29/9/19 Bream sport on the Old Lake is at its prime now and until the first frosts take the temperature down a notch later in October. A magnificent 128 lb won the Carp Shop, Horley, charity contest, despite the extra pressure of 44 top anglers fishing all around the…
Old Lake Latest Catches week ending 22/9/19 Big bags of bream are such a regular occurrence on the Old Lake that it’s easy to take them for granted, but catching 100 lb still means a memorable day’s fishing. The latest angler to top the ‘ton’ in a pleasure session was Ray Williams, from Leigh, whose…
Old Lake Latest Catches week ending 15/9/19 The Old Lake’s bream do enjoy a bit of wet and windy weather, and this week they responded, providing up to 36 fish per angler. Paul Seymore, from Chertsey, led the way with his big catch of fish to 4 lb from the middle of the Front Bank,…
As one of the country’s top fisheries, Bury Hill has long been a favourite of the angling press, having been featured in many articles, spanning multiple decades.
Featuring many of the country’s best-known anglers and covering a wide selection of angling techniques and species, these historic articles cover all of Bury Hill’s infamous lakes and species and offer a great source of information wherever you choose to fish
