Traditional
Lake Helen provides traditional mixed coarse fishing with a natural self-stocking fish population.
If it’s watching a float bobbing under for crucians and tench or floating a bread crust for big carp off the top, you’ll fall in love with Lake Helen. The secluded tree-lined lake has a huge head of double figure carp. Traditional anglers come for a mixed bag of crucians, tench, perch, roach, rudd and bream – but be ready when the 15lb carp come out to play. A 20lb haul of silver fish is typical in a day with over 100lb weights achieved regularly. Best baits include: maggots, bread, sweetcorn, luncheon meat and worms.
Carp
More and more carp anglers are bivvying up for 24, 48 hours or longer. They use boilies, bait alarms and two or three rods. There is a huge head of relatively easy to catch double figure carp in Lake Helen. The twenties and thirties are much harder to find. If you book the bungalow, there’s no need for a bivvy. Keep the French doors open and your rods are only a metre from your doorstep! Sweet flavoured boilies have been accounting for the autumn and winter fish. Spring and summer the carp are on fish flavours.
Where To Fish
Guests have exclusive use of four pegs next to the bungalow but are welcome to fish anywhere around the lake.
