Moat House Fishery

I fished the Moat House fishery for a few hours yesterday which is situated off Gorsey Lane (Bold I think)
Its £5 for one rod and £7 for two. I opted for one on this occasion and fished on a block-end swim feeder with red maggots/ 3reds hookbait. I fished on quite light tackle with 6lb main line through the feeder and 2lb hooklength through to a size 16 hook. Ive found when using feeders you can often get tangles which means the bait isn't presented properley so I tried some silicon tubing over a small part of the top of the hooklength closest to the swivel and covering half the swivel also. This helped a great deal and gave me more confidence that my line wasn't tangled when entering the water and the overall outcome was pretty significant. I found a decent swim on the largest of the two ponds after a bit of searching and casting to different areas. I had constant indications and fish attacking the feeder until hitting into a 4lb common carp which did quite nicely. After this, I had quite a few skimmers and 3 other commons ranging from 3-4lb. May not be monster, specimans but good sport nonetheless especially on light tackle, I would definately recommend a visit to the fishery as its only a sky diver from dawn till dusk.

Hi were do you pick the day tickets up from or can you pay on the bank , is it easy to find
cheers shaun

Its pretty straightforward, theres a website for the fishery, just google moathouse. it explains what to do on there mate. Ive been twice this year and had two good days on there.

thanx for the advice will give it a go tommoz let you know how i get on

fished it today really nice day short sleeve order for a change , was pleasantly surprised with the place fished reasonably well had a few carp biggest being around 7 lb ,, got talking to a regular nice guy called bernard says it fishes really well when it warms up with some nice size carp in the 2nd pond , will give it a go again later in the season for sure

Nice one, which part did u fish? The nearest or the bigger 1?

taking youngest fishing for first time on sat this was recommended as a good place to start for us newbies any tips for first timers?

i fished the bigger pond in and around the semi circle island caught on corn and red maggot

yeah ashy thats where i usually go, its a bit snaggy there but it always gets results!

Went there this morning 1st time ive fished it even tho its only around the corner from where i live. Had a good start pulling lots of crusians out between 1 and 4lb. Then at 11ish it went abit quiet apart from pulling the odd skimmer out. My dad was getting the odd skimmer aswell until he hooked a nice chub in very good condition. Then i hooked a bloody eel took me ages to get it back in (had no newspaper to hand) then my dad caught 1 lol. Hooked into something big but it got off and this was all on my float rod on 2 red maggot i had my carp rod in on double sweetcorn but didnt have any action. But all in all had a nice days fishing will defo be going again to try some different methods n tactics

Fished the moat house quite a few times last year, hot spot was the horse shoe, on pond two. Had lots of fish to muscle.

I was on pond 2 myself but in the left hand corner when u walk in. Think il try the horse shoe nxt time i go. Cheers mate

Rick8782 wrote:I was on pond 2 myself but in the left hand corner when u walk in. Think il try the horse shoe nxt time i go. Cheers mate

The bigger fish seem to come out of the horse shoe and they know all the snags so they need to be bullied. Tight lines.

fished moathouse today had a good day apart from the shitty weather, started off with a couple of carp ranging from 2lb-6lb then went a bit quite then was pulling in the bream and tench on single corn,, then as the day went by and the sun came out i hit into a 11lb common and a 14lb mirror on spam and corn, this was on the first pond in the far right corner next to the weeds, all in all nice quite scenery and some nice fish , definantly recomend it for beginers

Spent 4 hours on the 2nd lake on tuesday had a 9lb common out the reeds as u walk in, then wen the wind died down i had them feedin off the top but they wudnt take my hook bait would they the buggers

Had 1 carp all day, quite gutted coz its usually a baggin up water

going here this evenin had a good day 2 wks ago had a couple of carp, a tench and a few chub. The carp seemed to be going for the scopex corn so gonna be using that again. Il post how i did.

Fished here several times over the past few weeks an today, was fishing in the horseshoe island at the back, it was very slow for the first 4 hours with only 2 small carp on the bank an a lost fish, i then moved very close to the weeds on the right an caught within 5mins an then caught another 2 in the next 25 mins, 1 was 10lb. i caught another 3 over the next 2 hours, 1 was 8lb. all were caught on 8mm krill boilies with pellets and groundbait on a method feeder.

Had a few hours there this afternoon, took 5 carp up to 9lb all off the top with dog biscuits

chrisfish wrote:Fished here several times over the past few weeks an today, was fishing in the horseshoe island at the back, it was very slow for the first 4 hours with only 2 small carp on the bank an a lost fish, i then moved very close to the weeds on the right an caught within 5mins an then caught another 2 in the next 25 mins, 1 was 10lb. i caught another 3 over the next 2 hours, 1 was 8lb. all were caught on 8mm krill boilies with pellets and groundbait on a method feeder.

Shhhhh,could be wrong but i think theres a no groundbait rule

no you cant use any bollies or groundbait m8 keep it ush ush lol