Moorlands Fishery

Moorlands

Moorlands is a 14 acre lake with 18 swims. It, like most lakes, will always require a certain amount of skill and watercraft to get the best out of it. The longest cast needed is 90m but most fish get caught at half that distance.

Our own thoughts are that removing all of the rudd and small carp in 2024, was absolutely essential to protect the dissolved oxygen but it reduced the competition too far and this showed in last year’s results.

With that in mind we decided that action was needed. Obviously the reduced biomass meant that the carp have had access to a lot of additional food and have grown very fast.

We have seen some real surprises during the spring of 2026 with several of the known fish achieving a 10lbs weight gain in one year.

Between mid April and mid May we’ve seen carp of 60lbs, 58lbs 5oz, 57lbs 8oz, 57lbs 3oz, 56lbs 7oz, 55lbs 6oz, 51lbs 11oz, 51lbs 8oz, 49lbs 4oz, 48lbs 4oz, 47lbs 12oz, 47lbs 8oz, 47lbs,         46lbs 8oz, 44lbs 14oz, 44lbs 8oz, 42lbs 14oz, 42lbs, 41lbs 13oz & 40lbs and we’re still waiting to see some of last year’s upper forties and fifties. However, we still believe that rebalancing the numbers of carp was the right thing to do.

On 27th November 2025 we added 50 additional carp in order to increase competition and, thereby, improve catch rates.

As you can see on the above list 2026 has already produced several fifties but only one sixty, so far, and 2027 will be very special indeed with a forecast of 8 sixties plus 12 fifties.

There are also big perch and large mouth bass so if you fancy some action with a light spinning rod please do.