Temple Lake Latest Catches week ending 21/4/19 While the dust settled after the capture of Nemo and the Double-Row Linear, there was action for Steve Willets in the form of three ‘twenties’ to 27 lb. Steve, from Woking, had a 27 lb 13 oz common, a 25 lb 8 oz common and a 20 lb…
Temple Lake Latest Catches week ending 14/4/19 The first capture of Nemo each year is always a special moment, and this time it was Aaron Warner who took the honours, recording a weight of 45 lb 8 oz. Aaron was fishing peg 12 with Vanilla bottom baits cast between the islands, and he also had…
Temple Lake Latest Catches week ending 7/4/19 The Silver Common is not one of Temple’s best known fish, but its capture at 35 lb by James Whitmore has put it on the map. James, from Bletchingley, was fishing peg 9 on Saturday when he beat his common carp PB, using a single 18 mm bait…
Temple Lake Latest Catches week ending 31/3/19 A four-carp catch topped by two upper-20s shows that there’s plenty of activity now at Temple, Aaron Warner landing the fish during a five-night session at peg 13. His 29 lb 8 oz common, 27 lb 8 oz mirror and commons of 18 lb and 17 lb fell…
Temple Lake Latest Catches week ending 24/3/19 Two ‘thirties’ in a session shows how much sport has picked up on Temple, and a third ‘thirty’ in the same week shows what is possible now that the daylight hours are longer. Mark Savage started his session with a 37 lb 5 oz mirror at 6am, and…
Temple Lake Latest Catches week ending 17/3/19 After a long, slow winter, there are signs that sport is about to accelerate, with the capture of the lake’s first reported ‘thirty’ of the year. Ray Harding got things off the mark with Two Tone at 35 lb 12 oz, the fish’s first reported capture since John…
Temple Lake Latest Catches week ending 10/3/19 Two more ‘twenties’ suggests that sport is on an upward curve on Temple, James Cox, from Esher, landing a 29 lb mirror carp from peg 13 on a 14 mm Carp Company Icelandic Red with Caviar & Cranberry pop-up. And Gary Gray caught a 25 lb ghost common…
Temple Lake Latest Catches week ending 3/3/19 After last week’s 18 lb 8 oz mirror carp to Mark Savage, there was a 28 lb fully scaled this week, to Sam Hepburn, suggesting that a corner has been turned in terms of temperature and light levels. Sam, from Chertsey, was fishing peg 8 last Wednesday when…
Temple Lake Latest Catches week ending 24/2/19 The first carp reported from Temple for several weeks could mark the turning point in the season this week, and the start of more activity among the fish, now that the end of winter is in sight. Mark Savage, from Capel, landed the 18 lb 8 oz mirror,…
Temple Lake Latest Catches week ending 17/2/19 Hopefully the end of the ice and snow, and the arrival of a second week of milder weather, with double-figure values once again, will stir the fish into feeding, especially as the days are now getting noticeably longer and the sun has some warmth in it. PLEASE NOTE:…
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
