[GEOFF]

1st day of the rainbow trout season today was up at hillsbourgh lake all day wifout a bite got talkin to a few of the regulars and they said about the carp in the lake ther was 80 put in last year and a few came out near the end of season all of which were very small

[matchwinner]

yeah dcal stocked the carp last year m8

[terry]

They stocked 500 last year and 500 the year before all in the one to two pound range, bred here in one of their stock ponds all English strain, the good thing is according to all that I have read they fight well above their weight. I wish they would hurry up and re designate the fishery as it's only down the road for me and would be handy when the rivers are in flood.

This post has been edited by terry: 02 February 2010 - 11:08 PM

[GEOFF]

According to the bailef ther was 100 and they are looking for another water now cause of the upset it caused with local trout anglers that use the lake .i fish ther alot through the season and its a good spot but think they should keep it a trout water ,i do both game and coarse fishing and love the both but stoneyford now being closed and ballykeel fluf chuckers only ther isnt any other trout bait fishery about lisburn area and slightly a field the bailef also mentioned the carp wer between 6 and 12oz so i couldnt c ther being loads left after seein all them cormants on the water today counted 23 of them and they were eating the trout aswell i witnessed it several times and i was still left without a bite ,a man to my rite at the holly bush got a nice trout not far of the 4lb mark which was probley one of last years fish but went like hell thats the 1st trout ive seen cum out this season

[matchwinner]

the carp were bred at movanger fish farm for dcal

[terry]

The guy I got the info from was Peter Lynch the lake manager (I have his phone number if you want it) he said the lakes converting is because it gets to weedy, they are looking at a site a couple of miles away on the Dromara rd.

[GEOFF]

the lake does get weedy but never bad enough that its unfisable but wats the diference between trout are carp in it .the weed cutter was on the lake bout november time and its completley weed free at the minute plus a new few places have been made around the lake from the feed back from local anglers and general users of the lake they would rather the way it is at the minute a trout fishery but then again a lake like hillsbourgh would make the perfect carp fishery either way it goes its going to upset sumone as far as ive heard its staying a trout fishery for this season at least

[GEOFF]

would it just be carp are would they introduce roach perch bream and tench to make it a proper coarse fishery instead of just carp