We had a very successful netting last Saturday.
8 Catfish moved to Home Farm totaling 78lbs.
600-700lb of good quality Roach, Perch and a a good number of tiny Carp moved to Wix 1.
48 Carp, 1 over 30lbs, 20 over 20lbs and 27 upper doubles were left in Wix 2.
I think we got over 90% of the stock sorted in this netting. I know of only 2 Cats and 3 20lb Carp we missed.
This leaves us with 24 Carp over 20lbs now. We are also due to be adding 10 more fish soon, mostly around the upper double to 20lb mark. Meaning we will likely have over 30 20lb+ fish in there for next season with one of those a mid-30.
It is essential we annually carry out this activity to keep overall biomass down and promote growth of the Carp.
In other plans we have agreed 24,000 mixed silvers to be stocked into Home Farm this winter, and subject to us being able to remove some more Carp from the Rectangle we also plan to add 100-150 Bream and Tench in the 2-3lb range.