Mark Ashmore's Official Lakemore Blog

Welcome to the new Lakemore Fisheries site, brand new for 2011. We hope you will find this site more user friendly and get more out of your experience. I will be posting regular updates as per last year. On another note, can you please be aware, all fishing must be pre booked over the phone, not via Facebook.

E-mail your fish pics to me: markashmore3@aol.com

MY ABILITY TO UPDATE YOU ALL HAS BEEN A NIGHTMARE OF    LATE, NOW MY WEBMASTER BARNEY, HAS GOT ME UP AND RUNNING AGAIN I WILL DO MY BEST TO KEEP UPDATES OF CATCHES AND ANY RELEVENT INFO AS AND WHEN I CAN.

 I WOULD LIKE TO A MASSIVE THANKS TO TOM AND JOHNNY FROM HEADROOM MEDIA FOR THE SIMPLY FANTASTIC VIDEOS THEY COMPILED FOR ME, THEY HAVE TURNED OUT TO BE JUST WHAT CUSTOMERS HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. THANKS AGAIN LADS YOUR WORK WAS 100% SPOT ON

THANKS MUST ALSO GO TO MY GOOD FRIEND JAN PORTER, THE DAY WENT SO SMOOTH DUE TO HIS SUPERB KNOWLEDGE OF MAKING SUCH FILMS, IT WAS A PLEASURE TO NOT ONLY HAVE HIM THERE AGAIN BUT IT WAS INVALUABLE TO HAVE HIM ALONGSIDE ME FOR THE TOUR.

THANKS MUST GO TO SOME MORE GOOD FRIENDS FOR HELPING ME CREATE THE VIDEOS:

SIMON CLARKE - SPONSORED BY CATFISH PRO

NEIL MACHIN - SPONSORED BY GARBOLINO AND BAG M BAITS

PHIL AYLETT- SPONSORED BY ANN SUMMERS PLC

AND OF COURSE RON GRIFFISH FROM CATFISH TACKLE FOR SUPPLYING THE TERMINAL GEAR I REQUIRED FOR THE TIPS

ON THE FISH FRONT A HUGE WELL DONE TO DAVE McKIE FROM MACCLESFIELD, DAVE ARRIVED ON HORSESHOE TO SEE A BIG CAT ON PEG 1 HAVING A FEED, WITHOUT HASTE HE GRABBED SOME GEAR FROM THE CAR, REMOVED HIS LEAD AND FREELINED A BIG PIECE OF MEAT TO THE FISH, MINUTES LATER ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE.
AFTER SEVERAL MINUTES A MASSIVE SEASONS VENUE BEST WAS LANDED AT 70LB 2OZ, TO SAY DAVE WAS HAPPY IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT, YET NO LONGER THAN 2HRS LATER HE HAD A 58 ON THE BANK TOO!!
WE ARE UNSURE AT THIS POINT SO PLEASE DONT QUOTE ME ON THIS BIT, BUT SEVERAL PEOPLE IN THE KNOW SEEM TO THINK IT IS THE BIGGEST BRACE OF COURSE FISH EVER LANDED IN THE UK, ESPECIALLY IN SUCH A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. EITHER WAY WELL DONE TO DAVE ON WHAT WILL GO DOWN IN LAKEMORE HISTORY AS A PROPER CATFISH SESSION.

BRIAN BIRCHALL HAS BROKEN OUR CARP RECORD TOO, BRIAN HAD A KNOWN FISH AT A NEW WEIGHT OF 33LB 4OZ.
FISHING PEG 6 BRIAN HAD LOST A HUGE CAT BEFORE LATCHING INTO THE MONSTER MIRROR, THE PICS WERE SENT THROUGH BUT SADLY DIDNT DO THE FISH THE JUSTICE IT DESERVES, NEVERTHELESS WELL DONE BRIAN AND AS ALWAYS ITS A PLEASURE HAVING YOU AND GEORGE THERE, AND WHAT A RESULT TO HAVE A CARP KNOCKING MID 30'S, A GOOD FISH FOR THE NORTH WEST INDEED.

ONE FINAL THING:

NOTE TO THE MINORITY OF SCUM WHO SHIT IN THE BUSHES, ITS 2011 NOT 1811,
USE THE BASTARD TOILETS!!!!!!!!!!!
ITS REPULSIVE AND IF CAUGHT YOU WILL BE REMOVED FROM LAKEMORE WITHOUT HASTE AND DEFO NO REFUNDS GIVEN.

SORRY FOR THE RANT BUT IF SOMEONE SHIT IN YOUR GARDEN WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO THEM?

Swim Information

As from January 2011, the new pegs 4 , 5 and 6 will be open for the season ahead. The two reasons for this are:

1. To get fish moving around the lake more, and feeding more. At present, they are holding up in certain areas and this will disrupt them.

2. For any anglers who have fished Horseshoe regularly, these new swims will create a completely different perspective to their fishing. It will feel like fishing a different lake.

Bait Boats

GOOD NEWS. I am allowing the use of bait boats on the Horseshoe only. Should you wish to use this facility you may now do so FREE of charge, HOWEVER should anybody abuse the use of the bait boat in a manner that is either upsettting to other anglers or is in any way causing a danger to wildlife or the fish stocks (by dropping baits in dangerous areas) they will be removed from site without haste.

NO QUESTIONS ASKED and NO REFUNDS EITHER!!

Basically be sensible and it will be fine, act like a pratt and you go home.

Mark.