Conditions: awful

Summary:
The weather was awful on the Saturday, but this didn't stop the fish from eating. It is the best fishing weekend so far and our first of many at celtic ... AMAZING fishing. Without doubt number 1 in our eyes now. Gary the bailiff was really helpful and knowledgeable and having met the owner a couple of times, he was a real nice, genuine guy as well. Will defiantly be back again regularly hoping to beat our 48hr haul of 173lb of fish.

Notable Fish:
Catfish 31lb 10oz (pb and stunning fish), 24lb 10oz Mirror, 16 other mirror and commons on the bank

Tactics and bait:
Every fish was caught on pop up boilies over mixed pellet and a bit of paste. Cat caught on halibut pop up, as well as 11 others, biggest carp on crab pop up, the rest were on tiger nut boilies over crushed tiger nut.

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Conditions: -

Summary:
First time fishing at celtic lakes

Notable Fish:
Bream

Tactics and bait:
Ledgering near an island on a cheesy tuna boilie with maze and method mix

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Conditions:

Summary:
After a recent visit by my father where he caught 45 Carp and seven cats including 5 20's up to 27lb, we decided it would deserve a return visit. When we left Ebbw Vale the weather was fine but it turned nasty during the night with strong winds and heavy rain but this did not stop the fish feeding though. Cant wait to return.

Notable Fish:
5 common carp from 12 to 15lb, one catfish 29lb 8oz. My father also had 4 carp, biggest 12lb and 1 cat of 13lb

Tactics and bait:
Squid and octopus pop up boil with pva bags containing mixed pellets cast to far margin

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Conditions:

Summary:
It is my second visit to lake 6, the weather was horrible but luckily i caught all of the fish in the dry spells.

Notable Fish:
4 Carp from 9-12lb

Tactics and bait:
Halibut pellets fished in the margins.

Conditions:

Summary:
Scale down your tackle and u will have a run off every rod.

Notable Fish:
4 Carp from 9-12lb

Tactics and bait:
Single kg 1 boilies no freebees

Conditions: -

Summary:
This was my first time to Celtic Lakes, I did a 48hr. The weather was great especially on the Sunday. The one thing that I noticed was the excellent condition of the fish. I found this an easy water to fish and that over baiting spooked the fish. The staff were very friendly and helpful. I will most definitely visit this venue again. Thanks for a great weekend.

Notable Fish:
26lb Mirror, 16lb 7oz Common and the 2lb bream that had me hopping out of my bivvie in my sleeping bag at 0400hrs

Tactics and bait:
Used bait boat to bait up area had 2 fish 10lb + 16lb 7oz using pop-up boilies. I found that the best tactic was using method feeder with a 50/50 mix of ground bait/particles. Hookbait was critically balanced maize on hair rig with size 10 Korda choddy hook. This caught me 10 carp 7lb 12oz to 26lb. I had small number of bream, 4 I think. I fished the last peg near the lodges. I found the best area was in the far margins near inlet and to the right of inlet. This is where the 26lb came out of.

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Conditions: sun /cloud

Notable Fish:
Two cat fish one weighing 29lb the other 20lb

Tactics and bait:
Spicey shrimp and maize

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Conditions: Windy

Summary:
First ever 24hr fishing session. Wind really picked up in the night but the fish just kept coming with bites every 20 mins

Notable Fish:
5 fish over 10lb

Tactics and bait:
Method feeders with boilies, halibut pellets or luncheon meat

Conditions:

Summary:
overcast and sunny intervals.

Notable Fish:
21 lb common, 17 lb 4 oz common and 10 other fish to 14 lb.

Tactics and bait:
Boilies and PVA bags in open water and margins

Conditions: good

Summary:
Weather was good

Notable Fish:
19 carp from 11lb 10oz to 18lb 9oz, commons and mirrors

Tactics and bait:
TF ocean 11 boilies

Conditions:

Summary:
Weather very bad with winds and heavy rain. Very good fishing

Notable Fish:
21lb catfish caught on 10mm boilie, 17lb Common plus 6 carp between 10lb and 16lb plus mixture of 10 small carp and bream

Tactics and bait:
Single boilie hookbait with small pva bags

Conditions: poor

Summary:
Very poor weather but fishing was excellent

Notable Fish:
21lb Mirror, 20lb 1oz Common, 19lb Catfish, 6 carp between 10 and 16lb plus dozen small carp bream and tench

Tactics and bait:
Single Fusion hookbaits with small PVA of mixed pellets

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Conditions: windy

Summary:
Conditions were windy, first time at the venue and will definitely be going back

Notable Fish:
11 carp all around the 15lb mark

Tactics and bait:
18mm halibut boilie with a 14mm pop up (squid and octopus), most success was in the margins.

Conditions:

Summary:
Strange weather ranging from bright and sunny to torrential downpours.

Notable Fish:
7 Common carp to 14lbs 2oz, 2 mirror carp to 11lbs, and 1 small bream

Tactics and bait:
Home rolled dumbell hookbaits, pva sticks. Cast to far margin where carp were evident.

Conditions:

Summary:
New Quay, weather conditions where bad, windy and rain

Notable Fish:
2 mirror carp and 2 commons all over 10 lbs: biggest about 12 lbs, lost 3 bream

Tactics and bait:
Pineapple boilie, atlantic salmon boilie, sweetcorn and groundbait

Conditions:

Summary:
6th or 7th time on the venue now i think. Do try to get down for 1 night a week. Weather was changeable. A mixture of sunshine and thunderstorms. Very windy during my stay.

Notable Fish:
16 carp in just under 24 hours. Smallest was the lone mirror of about 10lbs, all the rest were commons between 12lbs and 15lbs 8oz.

Tactics and bait:
Single hookbaits coupled with small pva bags of pellet recast every hour or so to showing fish.

Conditions: -

Summary:
From ebbw vale.1st visit there.

Notable Fish:
Biggest carp at 17 lb 11 oz, also had an 8 and a couple of others about 5/6 lb

Tactics and bait:
Squid an octopus boilies. Took out in bait boat.

Conditions:

Notable Fish:
10 Commons to 12lb

Tactics and bait:
Halibut boilies over bed of mixed pellet.

Conditions: windy

Summary:
Its a long drive from North Wales but well worth it once you get there. The weather was not on our side with high winds, but at least the rain held off. Good quality fishing at a cracking venue..... I'll be back.......

Notable Fish:
A total of 11 carp in just under 24 hours. From 9lb to a 28.2lb common (my new uk pb)

Tactics and bait:
18mm boilies and pellet.

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Conditions:

Summary:
Wet and very windy.

Notable Fish:
27 lb catfish

Tactics and bait:
The best out of 4 catfish caught by myself in the carp master competition. We also landed 60lb of carp, not the best bag of carp by a long while with the winners getting close to 300lb of carp. We came last but with the biggest cat landed and a personal best cat for me it was not all bad. All carp and cats were taken on obsession boils with the cats taking a liking to the mean green boilies and most of the carp coming on peanut, honey, pineapple boilies chopped up in very small pva bags.

Conditions:

Summary:
Im from Swansea, its my third time to this amazing venue. The weather gave us bright hot days and cold nights, i think this did affect the fishing slightly, but still had a great time with some excellent sport. Money well spent.

Notable Fish:
Over a 48 hour session caught various carp to 15lb, with a Catfish at 23lbs

Tactics and bait:
Most of the carp fell to various boilies from pineapple to cc moores meteor boilies over beds of Vitalin. Catfish fell for a (surprise, surprise) 10mm pop-up tuti frutti boilie coupled with a grain of white, fake sweetcorn.

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Conditions: mixed

Summary:
A good Wales Carp Masters qualifier all round, weather made it hard work (knackered Sunday) but overall had a good time and worth all the effort. Especially coming 3rd and beating the paltry O'Regan Family, who have taken the damning defeat quite badly!!! Again thanks to the excellent work by the Marshals especially in the rough conditions.

Notable Fish:
12lb 9 oz Common, variety of lower weights all around 10lb region.

Tactics and bait:
Various methods used over course of competition.

Conditions: mixed

Summary:
Weather conditions ranged from very hot and sunny to torrential rain. Wind direction also turned through 180 degrees during the course of the session.

Notable Fish:
Caught over 50 carp to 16lbs 8oz, and 2 catfish (22lbs and 34lbs). Lost count of exact tally by the end of the session.

Tactics and bait:
Home rolled boilies fished with PVA bags of groundbait caught most of the fish. Catfish caught on large pepperami hookbaits.

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Conditions: -

Summary:
Sunny intervals with a north westerly wind. We have both fished lake 5 many times in the past with similar results. To date our visits have been day only but would assume that the nights would be just as prolific, in short a good action water and anyone failing to catch from here should consider ebay for their kit !!!

Notable Fish:
50 carp caught between us, largest 15lb

Tactics and bait:
Meteor and maple 8 boilies fished in conjunction with pva bags of trout pellets or stringers at varied ranges in varied rigs and lead arrangements.

Conditions: mixed

Summary:
Fish went mad after a thunderstorm on the second day. Stopped fishing at 2 am cos I needed some rest!! must be getting old!

Notable Fish:
Common x 20, Mirrors x 7: Total over 600 pounds in 3 days relaxed fishing!!

Tactics and bait:
Method feeder, 2" hooklink, size 10 Korum Quickstop, 2 sweetcorn or Sonubaits Squid and Octopus and Strawberry pellets in sizes from 8 to 13 mm.

Conditions: HOT

Summary:
Me and my mate decided to go Celtic Lakes for the weekend for a laugh and to catch a few fish. We fished lake 5 in hot sunny weather, fishing was brilliant I had alot of hard fighting double figure carp. Well worth coming here. Lake 5 and 6 are heavily stocked with carp and is great sport.

Notable Fish:
mirrors to 13lbs, commons to 12lbs

Tactics and bait:
Cherry boilie on a cage feeder with a pellet mix.

Conditions: n/a

Notable Fish:
Caught one mirror of 18lbs, two commons of 10lbs and 11lbs, and 4 tench all averaging
6-7lb

Tactics and bait:
Short overnight session, first trip to the water. Simple mono rigs with leadcore and running dung leads. Double 12mm bottom baits fished with PVA bags of crushed boilie and pellet.

Conditions:

Summary:
Nice weather, in Wales Carp Masters but got thrashed, yet not last - that was the Mcreadies !!!! LOL

Notable Fish:
Nice carp up to 9lb, dad got a catfish around 10lb

Tactics and bait:
GB Baits fresh boilies, cat on a pop up.

Conditions: n/a

Summary:
Came down from Manchester for a practice before the Carp Masters, never seen the lake before. We picked a peg randomly and were quite pleased with the results, lost some fish that felt a lot bigger which was a shame. Some nice looking fish in this lake though and they fight well, looking forward to coming back!

Notable Fish:
We caught a total of 32 carp, commons and mirrors to mid double figures.

Tactics and bait:
We used our own home made boilies fished over mixed particles.

Conditions:

Summary:
Dry with a few showers

Notable Fish:
In a 18 hour session me and my brother caught 30 carp: 20 common 10 mirror the biggest 18 pound, the rest averaging 10 pound.

Tactics and bait:
21mm pellets and strawberry boilies.

Conditions: windy

Summary:
From Swansea, visit every couple of months for a bit of action. Weather was showery with an easterly wind.

Notable Fish:
Fifteen Commons to 13lb
Six Mirrors to 15lb
Four Catfish to 17lb 12oz

Tactics and bait:
PVA bags and pop-ups

Conditions: sunny / hot

Summary:
We are regular visitors to Celtic Lakes. We traveled down from Shropshire, the weather was really hot & sunny. We fished lake 6 around the back of the islands

Notable Fish:
First catfish 28.06lb (pb)

Tactics and bait:
Tactics: as it was hot the carp were on the surface, so i decided to chuck out an orange bubble float and try floating crusty bread. To my surprise the cat took it of the top.

Conditions: sunny / warm

Summary:
Warm / sunny / overcast.
First time visitors, excellent time, well worth fishing.
Made to feel welcome from the start, first rate reception and very professionally run.
Enjoyed it that much - have signed up as two teams for the Wales Carp Masters 2008 being held there.

Notable Fish:
Reece's magnificent 2 x 14 lb commons
Steve's 1 x 16 lb & 1 x 14 lb commons.
Chris O'Regans 1 x 10 lb (looked just like him too - actually 8 lb but no one had the heart to disappoint him).
Bob's 0 lb carp (don't think he brought his rods with him).

Tactics and bait:
Single baits used - minimum ground bait

Conditions: sunny / rain

Summary:
Me and my friends landed a total of seven carp and countless bream to 5lb, we fished a 48 hour session

Notable Fish:
1 fish at 12lb 10oz and 1 at 12lb

Tactics and bait:
Tiger nut boilies on a simple hair rig and zig rig squid and octopus pop-up

Conditions: sunny / rain

Summary:
3rd visit and it just gets better and better. 2 days sunny and then day of intermittent rain but the carp fed on regardless.

This is destined to become wales best course fishery bar none. John Carney and team have got this fishery down to a fine art. I will be back again, again, and again. Don,t take my word for it try it yourself you will not be disappointed. If you can't catch carp here then take up golf. LOL

Notable Fish:
19lb 6oz mirror, 16lb common plus 11 other doubles: 27 carp in total and 12 bream to 4lb

Tactics and bait:
Small 10mm pop-ups and 12 mm bottom baits maple 8 and small pva bags of crushed maple 8 and mini betaine pellets.

Conditions: -

Summary:
Brilliant 3 days fishing, I never fished the nights too tired.
Very good complex. Looking forward to returning.

Notable Fish:
Biggest cat fish 16lb also a 9lb.
Tench up to 4lb.
Biggest carp 15lb 10 fish 12-14lb 23 commons and mirrors 4lb-10lb.
Lost a few cats that picked up the whole method feeder.

Tactics and bait:
Method feeder, PVA Bags, Stringers. 10mm white pop ups off method feeder caught cats, carp, tench and bream.
Margins are good. Fish the islands.

Conditions: n/a

Summary:
n/a

Notable Fish:
Fish to about 14lb

Tactics and bait:
boilies,corn.

Conditions: cold, windy

Summary:

Live in Tredegar, first visit of the year, showers strong cold north wind.

Notable Fish:
Day session: 6 fish all commons, biggest 14lb 10oz

Tactics and bait:
SBS m1 boilies over the same chopped boilie.

Conditions: -

Notable Fish:
caught 17 fish to 15lb

Tactics and bait:
10mm boilies and pva bags.

Conditions: Horrible.

Summary:
Weather horrible but still managed to catch 17 beautiful carp.

Top class water and people: this will be a regular.

Notable Fish:
caught 17 fish biggest to 18lb

Tactics and bait:
Boilies on on a bed of ground bait.

Conditions:

Summary:

Fish4Wales Winter League 2008

The final match of this years winter league was held at Celtic Lakes Resort in Lampeter. Sixteen anglers took part and today either Nick Williams or John Charlesworth would become winter league champion and the battle for third place resolved also. Nick who was trailing John by one point at the start of the match stormed into an early lead landing carp to 10lb in the first hour on lake 4, with junior Welsh International Ryan Hughes also catching well. Meanwhile on lake 5 (Churchill), which was favourite to produce the winners today things were not going well and the favoured pegs not producing many fish at all.

For full match report ... click here

Conditions: cold, windy

Summary:
From cardiff. Very windy and cold. Was very impressed with this complex, will be returning soon. thanks to kev and rich,

Notable Fish:
mirror 33lb, two commons to 21lb

Tactics and bait:
Pop up boilie, squid based.

Conditions: very windy

Summary:
Weather very bad, high winds, but the lake still produced. All fish where caught from the margins

Notable Fish:
I had 6 fish and lost 3, one of the fish I lost was a rather larger fish, gutted.

Tactics and bait:
I never used a boilie, tiger nut or maize caught all fish, used with pva bags of pellets and baited the margins up with pellet, popcorn maize and hemp.

Conditions: cold, windy

Summary:
Me and my father were fishing a 24hr session. We caught 3 fish between us, 2 mirrors and 1 common.

We are from Banwen and we are regular visitors and it was cold and windy.

Notable Fish:
Common was easily over 15lbs and the 2 mirrors were lower doubles.

Tactics and bait:
Me and my father were told to put at least 1 rod in the margins and put a couple of kgs over the top so we did and caught all 3 fish in the margins all on rubber sweet corn which we did not have much faith in because it has not caught us that many fish on it so we thought we would use it and we caught all 3 fish on it.

Conditions:

Summary:
We are both regulars to the venue. Jesse is one of my clients and he fished lake 6 under my coaching. We covered many aspects including spodding and marker float work, all being made easy by the fact that Celtic Lakes is the perfect venue for this! The weather was very sunny and quite warm for mid February! South-Easterly gentle breeze.

Notable Fish:
14lb 8oz Mirror, 10lb 5oz Mirror

Tactics and bait:
We fished a mixture of bottom baits and critically balanced pop ups too. These were our own Nuts about Carp Plum N-butryic and Pineapple Pro baits fished on 360 rigs. We fished up tight to the far margin and all the fish came from there.

Conditions: cold

Summary:
It was -5,  the water was frozen over

Notable Fish:
20

Tactics and bait:
Pop up sweet corn with a stick mix

Conditions: cold, windy

Summary:
From bristol, the weather was very cold and quite blowy

Notable Fish:
12 mixed carp in total between 3lb and 17lb 8oz

Tactics and bait:
I used 12mm SBS boilies & 15mm mainline boilies over mixed particles and 20 freebies each rod and also chicken livers for the catfish on another rod.

Conditions:

Summary:
After hearing a few reports that lake 6 has been fishing really slow, we decided that a bit of action was required for the day. Although the majority of the fish that we caught were singles, it was still good fun catching over thirty carp between us. The weather was absolutely atrocious, with the rain not stopping even for a minute with a strong southerly wind.

I think that we\'ll wait for a bit of warmer weather next time and hit lake 6 for the cats.

Notable Fish:
Mirror carp 14lb 15oz, Common carp 12lb, Common carp 11lb

Tactics and bait:
PVA bags of trout pellet with pop-up boilies.

Conditions:

Summary:
Overcast. First visit and am very impressed!

Notable Fish:
A large 40lbs catfish and a koi of 5lbs. The biggest carp came at the start of the session. A mirror of 23lbs and various small roach.

Tactics and bait:
Halibut pellets with p.v.a bags

Conditions: Bad

Summary:
From Newtown, Bad Weather, First Visit

Notable Fish:
38lb common carp

Tactics and bait:
Squid & Octopus boilies with p.v.a bags fishing at 40yrds