CATCH REPORTS
Olivemead lake
The Mead is a pretty 3 acre UK carp fishing venue and has been family run since 2007. Olivemead has 5 lodge swims and holds around 170+ carp (100x 20lb+, 60x 30lb+ and 6x 40lb+ carp) The men’s lake record is 47lb 2oz & the ladies’ record is 43lb.
🚨The 2026 netting of The Mead🚨
First off we’d like to say a massive thank you to the Carpin’ with Corey & Courtney YouTube channel for filming and putting together this awesome YouTube video, make sure you subscribe to their YouTube channel to see their future Carpin’ adventures unfold. We’d also like to thank the AE Fisheries team for doing an amazing job of netting our lake and removing well over 1000kgs of silvers, allowing our ‘Hungry Hippos’ to flourish this coming season. It was also the first time The Legend of The Mead herself, ‘Split Dorsal’ was caught in a netting in almost 20 years and she looked extremely impressive 💪.
Click on the link down below and watch this cracking video, and remember our re-opening on March 1st after our winter closure is sooner than you think😁🐋
‼️NETTING THE MAIN LAKE ‼️
What a great and successful day!!
We had Andrew Ellis, AE Fisheries, and his team, down at The Mead today to make a dent in the silvers.
We were expecting, hoping for, around 600-800 pound in mass to come out, we were extremely pleased and blown away with the result.
Andrew and his team have removed well over 1200kg+ (2600lb+), of perfect sized Roach, with a few Perch and a few Rudd thrown in. What a superb job and such a professional team these boys are, the best netting we’ve had💪.
All the silvers were absolutely pristine, as were the Carp, Pike and Tench.
It was refreshing to hear, when Andrew, who’s been in the fishery consultantion business for more than 30 years and it extremely respected by his peers, tells you your fish are in exceptional condition then you know you’re looking after your fishery well, so hats off to Caleb and Sarah😊.
Andrew, and his team, managed over 50 Carp in the netting too, all looking superb, plump and fighting fit.
With this amount of bio mass removed the carp will grow even more than their usual averages, fingers crossed, with more food readily available to them and no doubt the water quality and dissolved oxygen will benefit. We’re always striving for perfection, which is why we never stop trying to improve the carp’s environment year on year🤷♂️.
All in all though, this will have a huge, positive, impact on the Carp’s environment and we’re hoping, with our continued management plans, we’ll have even more 40’s and hopefully, that magical 50 or two, by the end of this season.
We re-open on the 1st March, after our Winter closure, and it can’t come around quick enough. The Carp will have had around a 4 month rest, no lines or hooks in the water, they will have de-stressed, and will be ready to do battle with our anglers on the 1st March, bring it on!!!🎣🎣
A big shout out to Andrew and his team, the best and most successful netting we’ve had in almost 20 years, well done guys, superb effort 👌
And just to wet your appetites for the coming 2026 season, here’s a few pics taken off our videos of the netting, it was a great day😁🎣🎣🎣
Winter On The Mead…..👌😊🎣…
Winter time down here on The Mead is just as spectacular as the summer.
Albeit, Cold, crisp and so pretty.
Most of the time we’re so busy, we forget just what a special place we’ve created here.
Every now and again though, we remember to sit back, for a couple of minutes, and just appreciate this wonderful, wildlife, Carpy, sanctuary.
Spring will soon be here, so will the 1st of March when we open, and once again our patrons will be enjoying our winter efforts😊👍
A First For Us…..😲…..
Very early this morning, just as dawn was breaking, I see a large, white shape on the bank in between Sadie’s and Willows. First thought was, “is that a swan?”, then I do a re-take.
For the first time, in almost 20 years on The Mead, I see a Great White Egret fishing, or angling, on The Mead.
I’ve got to say, it was a beautiful sight, and as I’ve allured to in the past, even after almost 20 years of being a custodian of The Mead, she always throws up some wonderful surprises.
Absolutely blown away🤷♂️😁🎣🎣🎣