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Grimley - retreat farm parking

I fished Grimley retreat farm at the weekend, the number of cars parked in the section signposted 'no cars beyond this point' was a joke. I saw no bailiff but i cant believe this was a one off, are the bailiffs turning a blind eye to this?

Posted on July 13, 2020 at 8:52 AM

Carping on!

I seem to be in the minority amongst my fellow members but looking on the face book page the first questions asked about the retreat pools is how big are the carp? who cares! Where are the crucians, roach and bream, were they actually stocked in any significant numbers as you will not catch while carp are in there. I for one will avoid these pools in future, wasted opportunity by the BAA.

Posted on May 17, 2017 at 12:09 PM

Re: New Retreat Pools - The good and the bad!

Are other members happy to only catch carp, this venue was a clean slate and i personally would not have added any carp, maybe we should transfer the carp from pool 1 to pool 2 through a couple of contests?

Posted on May 10, 2017 at 9:29 AM

Re: New Retreat Pools - The good and the bad!

I fished one of the new pools (No1) last weekend with the promise that it was stocked with some of our more traditional species such as roach and crucians, the only other fish to be caught apart from carp were 2 chub (no doubt trapped by floods). Why stock carp at all? If i wanted to catch carp i could stop at any one of the dozen carp pools i passed on my 7 mile drive to this venue!

Hopefully BAA will see sense and not add carp to pool 3.

Posted on May 10, 2017 at 9:26 AM

Re: New water - Retreat Farm Fishery

I fished one of the new pools (No1) last weekend with the promise that it was stocked with some of our more traditional species such as roach and crucians, the only other fish to be caught apart from carp were 2 chub (no doubt trapped by floods). Why stock carp at all? If i wanted to catch carp i could stop at any one of the dozen carp pools i passed on my 7 mile drive to this venue!

Hopefully BAA will see sense and not add carp to pool 3.

Posted on May 09, 2017 at 4:57 PM

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