Fishing Location –” Lamby Pond “(opposite Lamby Lake)
We had a nice break in the weather and was forecast for a sunny day so we decided to pay a visit to Lamby Pond in Cardiff. It’s a pretty little pond just on the edge of an industrial estate and is stocked with a range of species of fish. We found out that the pond was poisoned 5 years ago and has been struggling to revive itself over the last couple of years but has slowly started to come back to normality.
We arrived early with the sun shining but a frost on the ground and a mist on the pond. It soon lifted within the first 20 minuets of us getting there. We set up our poles and off we went. Brian was the first to catch with a lovely common carp around 5 or 6 lb. in weight. I first tried fishing pellets but there didn’t seem to be any interest as nothing was biting. I then decided to change rigs to a more fine set-up. I was using 5 lb. Fluorocarbon Fishing Line that i got from Total Outdoors with a size 16 wide gape barbless hook from Carp Force. I then fed the swim with ground bait and started to fish the maggot. I was soon hooking into some lovely Rudd, not very big but still great fun and very feisty.
Shortly after Brian struck into his second fish of the day a nice chunky common of around 7 or 8 lb. in weight whilst i continued to catch
smaller fish. It wasn’t too long before Brian was landing his third fish of the day, a pretty looking mirror carp. Little did we know at the time this was going to be his last fish of the session. I continued to catch a couple more small Rudd and then we decided to take a break and soon it was lunch time.
After lunch we fed up our swims and continued to fish but with no success, All of a sudden the pond had gone dead. Nothing seemed to bite not even the small skimmers that we could see passing us in the shallows. For some unknown reason the fish just didn’t want to play anymore. We tried everything, we adjusted depth, we adjusted bait and we even changed tackle but still
nothing wanted to play anymore. So it was around 4.30pm we decided to call it a day. We had had a great day out even though the fish didn’t want to play in the second half but that's how it goes. I can’t wait for this little pond to get back to the way it was as there used to be some quality fish being caught from this venue and i am sure as soon as the weather gets a lot warmer the fish will be back.
Tight Lines & Wet Nets……….
