Holme grange open day
I have not been to Holme grange in Crowthorne for about 12yrs.
On my last visit it was just a hole in the ground with open banks and a mud car park.
However all these years on and the lake looks to have come on leaps and bounds.
There is more bank side vegetation now seperating swims, as well as a small tackle shop, tuck shop, and purpose built car park.
The purpose for my visit was an open day, run by crowthorne angling and holme grange, also korum, preston innovations, sonubaits and avid carp were also in attendance. 0
All 4 of the companies are owned by one parent company but are different arms, sonubaits do the baits, korum the specialist side, preston the match side and avid the specimen carp guys.
They had all their latest products and baits on show, korum also had some float rods set up for the youngsters to have a go at catching some fish.
My kids and 2 nephews were enjoying fishing with maggots and waggler set ups, catching roach under the rod tips, under the watchful eye of Nigel Botherway.
Slightly further down the bank was England international Des Shipp, who was fishing about 6 mtrs of pole and catching some big lumps in the process. His attention to detail in second to none, from feeding to shipping the pole out, everything was done exactly the same and consistently, which resulted in a steady stream of fish during the 2 hours that I was there.
All in all, a good day, with tackle on sale from crowthorne angling also. I was a bit disappointed that there was no hog roast though :(
I wont leave it anywhere near as long before returning with my rods next time.
Be lucky......
On my last visit it was just a hole in the ground with open banks and a mud car park.
However all these years on and the lake looks to have come on leaps and bounds.
There is more bank side vegetation now seperating swims, as well as a small tackle shop, tuck shop, and purpose built car park.
The purpose for my visit was an open day, run by crowthorne angling and holme grange, also korum, preston innovations, sonubaits and avid carp were also in attendance. 0
All 4 of the companies are owned by one parent company but are different arms, sonubaits do the baits, korum the specialist side, preston the match side and avid the specimen carp guys.
They had all their latest products and baits on show, korum also had some float rods set up for the youngsters to have a go at catching some fish.
My kids and 2 nephews were enjoying fishing with maggots and waggler set ups, catching roach under the rod tips, under the watchful eye of Nigel Botherway.
Slightly further down the bank was England international Des Shipp, who was fishing about 6 mtrs of pole and catching some big lumps in the process. His attention to detail in second to none, from feeding to shipping the pole out, everything was done exactly the same and consistently, which resulted in a steady stream of fish during the 2 hours that I was there.
All in all, a good day, with tackle on sale from crowthorne angling also. I was a bit disappointed that there was no hog roast though :(
I wont leave it anywhere near as long before returning with my rods next time.
Be lucky......
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