I love to fish and one of my favorite places to fish in the Peterborough area is the Lovells Fishery at Tallington.

It certainly worth a look.Give it a try over the next few weeks for a feel of the action. I guarantee you will be back for more!

There is something for everyone here. Not only is there an old, well established lake, there’s also a new pleasure/match pool dug out fairly recently and in pretty good condition.

For the specimen hunter, there’s the Old Lake, a heavily tree-lined mature lake established for over 60 years with carp as the main species.

I was going to tell you about the top quality surface fishing to be had here but unfortunately the fishery management have banned floating baits for the time being.

There are lots of other tactics though to tempt the big carp, which run to over 30lb, and it is also home to a good head of chub, roach, bream, tench, crucians and rudd.

Depths vary quite a lot depending on which swims you choose – from three feet right down to 12 feet in places.

There’s no lack of features to fish to here when you have small gravel patches, light slit patches, reeds, weed beds and gravel bars.

It pays to spend time looking for hotspots. Around 70 per cent of the carp are commons and the other 30 per cent are mirrors.

Probably the only downside is crayfish because they’ll take any bait you have.

There are 32 swims in total, with a lot of them being big enough to fit a bivvy into.

Local angler Danial Rathborn took 27 fishes from peg eight on a recent session. The best one weighs just over 22 pounds.

I am not saying you will bag up like that on every visit but the potential is there for all who put the time and effort in.

There are very few day-ticket waters in the area where you can bivvy up for the night or possibly even a weekend session, but you will need to call Jim, the head bailiff, to ensure there are pegs available for the times you want to fish. Contact him on 07709 756557.

The match/pleasure lake that was constructed in 2002 is ideal for the local clubs to try as it has 30 pegs on it.

Although it was originally built as a silver fish lake like many other waters around the area, carp have also been introduced to give a lot more variety to a day’s fishing on the lake.

It now holds a large head of carp in fact, from small ones to quite a lot of double figure fish, so be prepared for some big fish action on this pool too.

It also holds a good head of tench, chub, crucians, roach, bream and even barbel.

Sport can get hectic during the warmer months, although I do hear that the fish have been spawning over the hot Bank Holiday weekend so inevitably catches were a little lower than expected.

Depths go right down to over 20 feet in places, with the average being 14 feet.

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