Nineoaks has 3 Coarse lakes holding a mixed head of fish. Bream and skimmers are in the Main and House Lakes. House has a good head of 2lb+ Bream and plenty of 1/2lb+ skimmers. The Main Lake has skimmers and 1lb+ Bream. The Main lake is reputed to have a large black Bream circa 7lb in size. We haven't lost nor seen any fish of this size during our ownership. Although, one angler who fishes here regularly, who is a real Bream afficionado, he does find and catch the larger Bream in the Main lake using bread or sweetcorn.
Best baits are bread, sweetcorn, maggots and cooked mussel.
During the summer months the best times are definitely early morning and from 4pm (when the dinner bell rings) and the Carp go on the feed and surface fishing is excellent. Good baits all year round are Sweetcorn and luncheon meat; Dog biscuits and float fished bread morning and evenings. The Bream in the House Pool are often caught on floating baits. Maggots while being an excellent bait will generally provide the Roach and non-carp species. Method mixes and vitalin with 2 or 3 sweetcorn can provide some awesome sport with well over 100lb of Carp being caught. Dog food, Cat food and tinned "beef tongue" regularly produce some super fishing. However, we do discourage the use of boilies and excessive amounts of ground bait going in.
Our lakes:-
• Main has an average depth of 4-5ft. There are plenty of trees, bushes and bays all around the lake that provide lots of features to fish in to and under. A good variety of Carp of all sizes with the biggest going into the mid-20's. Main also has some excellent Roach fishing, skimmers, Tench and Grass carp up to 14lb. Bream are reputed to be in to double figures with a large black specimen infrequently caught. Mainly Bream of around 3/4-1lb mark are caught on sweetcorn.
• House is about 10ft deep in the middle with the margins being about 4ft deep. Plenty of features and trees/bushes on 3 sides and a large lilly bed. House. like Main, has a good head of Carp plus Bream, excellent Roach, Tench and a couple of Grass Carp up to 10lb. Carp here go up to 18lb with an average of about 4lb. With its good depth, fishing on the bottom away from the banks generally with sweetcorn, good number of decent Bream are caught. Mainly around the 1-1 1/2lb mark. With a few bigger specimens and plenty of smaller ones to keep you busy.
• Novices is between 6 and 8ft deep in the middle. Some tree cover and deep margins. Carp up to 4lb with plenty of 1/2lb'ers and good Roach to keep the novice, beginner or expert angler busy all day. there are a small nunber of skimmer Bream in this pool. To one side of the Lake there is a thick hedge providing plent of cover when it's windy.
