Forgotten Farm Ponds - The Last Of The Leneys? 

Thank you 👍 Like you I struggle to see the appeal of encasing oneself in a bivvy and waiting for an alarm to go off but each to their own 🎣🎣

Hello mate. I hope you're well. I look after the Freshwater Informer now (amongst other things), so spend far more time writing about other people's fish than catching my own... It would be great to cover some of the captures from the enigma that is Sheldon Richards 👍🎣

Hi Simon, I'm based in East Sussex 🎣👍

Thank you for comments they are very much appreciated. I'm hoping to get out fishing with a little more consistency in the coming weeks and months and hopefully put a few ideas into action in terms of the style of content I'm able to put out 👍🎣

Thanks 👍 I'm hoping to get out more often once the rain stops!🎣🎣

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That's what they did back then the fish would then have been set up in a case. See BV's book Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing. To claim a record fish back then you had to kill it. Don't remember who wrote it but there's an excellent book called The King Carp Waters that describes those original stocking and where they were.

Thanks Dave👍 Hopefully I'll be putting the Allcocks Aerial to good use and catching a few🎣🎣

Thank you 👍🎣🎣

Hi Harry, Yes I remember you (I still haven't found better spring rolls!) Good to know you're still fishing, hope you're keeping well 👍🎣🎣

It was somewhat frustrating as I don't like to impose myself on these fantastic fish on too regular a basis. It had been over a decade since I last wet a line there so after two visits in quick succession I don't want to bother them for a while. In truth it only ever seems appropriate to visit the pool on the glorious 16th and leave them to their own devices the rest of the time.

Thanks for the support and thanks for watching 👍🎣

Hi Robert, thank you for the kind words. Make no mistake I enjoy catching big fish but fortunately realised many years ago that the success and enjoyment of a trip should not be measured in pounds and ounces alone 👍

Hi Nick, I'm very well thank you. Boris is quite possibly the worst fishing dog I've ever known. He's getting on in years now but still likes to potter around and scare all the fish away🤣 so as long as I'm out on my own at some remote farm pond or stream I don't mind too much but as he doesn't like rain, cold or early mornings he most probably won't come out over the winter months. I'm actually spending a weekend in a lodge on a fishery in a couple of weeks with the intention of targeting pike and perch but I believe that there's some good carp in there as well, so if you consider the last week of November winter time, I might have a go for them... Hope you've keeping well 👍🎣🎣

@@InTheEdgeWithAlex 😃😃 Hello Alex , i'm definitely good matey thanks for asking !! I Caught an absolute Lump Saturday afternoon on the 12ft 1.75rod , 8lb line and Your suggested pin down rig.. a 25lb 13oz Common , was made up with that !! Used a side hooked boilie, the bivvy brigade didn't catch anything in the 3 hours i was there quality !!. Good luck at the lodge when you go and here's to the next video.. hopefully a winter stalked 20' But late autumn will do 😉. Cheers Nick

Sounds like a superb bit of angling and a brilliant catch🎣 There's something extra impressive about big commons, no wonder you're feeling good! Congratulations👍👍

You're right👍 The Galician strain of carp was developed in the Galicia region of Poland as a table fish and imported into this country by Donald Leney of The Surrey Trout Farm via a fish farm in Holland. The Galacian strain became so synonymous with Donald Leney that over time they have simply become referred to as 'Leneys'. Many waters were stocked directly by him over a twenty year period, initially as a means of weed control (much like grass carp in the 80/90's) and I believe this this is the reason that they were stocked into the Manor House lake as all of my research indicates that they were already present by the early 1950s and it was a shallow and very weedy water. It was really only after Richard Walkers record that Leneys became so in demand by angling clubs as anglers realised their potential. It's great that Walker didn't kill 'Clarissa' as was the norm back then as it gave many thousands of people a chance to see her and be inspired while she resided at London Zoo although whether she was stocked or was spawned in redmire is a whole different can of worms!🎣🎣

Redmire carp are Dutch German

Galician carp from Poland bought and bred at the valkenwaard fish farm in Holland where Donald bought them to England from 👍🏻

They do👍 The original fish have long since gone, but some of their progeny have been in the water for over 25yrs, wiith subsequent generations coming through 👍

@@InTheEdgeWithAlex I was hoping that would be the case. How lovely.