The weather leading up to the arrival of this week’s anglers at Molyneux had been awful. On Thursday and Friday we had snow falling and settling to a few inches, and an icy North wind that was making the low temperatures feel so much colder. Saturday morning and our first guests of the week arrived. […]
At 4am yesterday morning Big Lin was caught by Brett, a 12 yr old angler fishing with us this week, at a weight of 47lb 6oz, she was in stunning condition, and certainly didn’t have a full belly. Wonder what she will weigh with a wee bit of spawn inside her and who the lucky angler […]
With the first anglers breakfasted and on their way home, we set about preparing for the arrival of our second group of the year. The group consisting of Barry, Stuart, Shaun, Graham, Luke, Jordan and Jack, who arrived mid-afternoon. We had a quick chat and the obligatory cup or two of tea and then wandered […]
Well our first week of the season is over. The anglers are heading home to snowy Blighty. It was touch and go for a while leading up to their arrival as to whether the weather would break. Three days before they arrived we had half the lake frozen and a few inches of snow on […]
I decided this year to improve and enlarge Jacks swim. As you will see in the photo on the right, when we arrived at Molyneux it was just a half gravelled rough slope leading down to the water’s edge. It was muddy, slippery and treacherous. Not long after arriving we added a platform to the […]
Weather is much milder than last week, poured with rain yesterday, though has been mostly cloudy with the odd sunny spell. Anglers all seem very happy, food has gone down very well, and they are catching fish which always helps. Saturday night Ian Davenport caught a pb mirror of 34lb 4oz, then Sunday night caught […]
As well as improving and enlarging Jacks swim, we also decided to make improvements to the double swim here at Molyneux, easily the most popular on the lake. It was another that when we arrived two years ago needed immediate work carried out on it. There had been some very rough steps dug out at […]
Like most of you in the UK, we have had our share of chilly snowy weather here at Molyneux over the last few days. Thankfully we’ve not had the amounts of snow that seem to have covered large parts of Blighty, but it has certainly made life around the lake a little more difficult. The […]
Well as I type this report we are midway through December, Virtually all the trees have lost their leaves, and Molyneux looks stark and bare compared to the summer months. Helen has forced me to watch Elf and Miracle on 34th street over the last couple of weekends, so I guess Santa is almost on his […]
Scott & his 41lb mirror Saturday morning and with John and Carol packed and on their way we awaited the new anglers who were due to arrive at Molyneux. The phone rang around mid-morning and we learnt that one of our parties had suffered a mini disaster as a strap holding some of their gear […]
With no anglers visiting the lake in the week leading up to the 27th November, it meant another week of hard work for Helen and I which included us starting to remove the dead trees from the large island. Sadly it has been left to grow wild for a number of years and the brambles have […]
The wet and windswept group just prior to leaving for home Molyneux Report to 20th October 2012… After our week with no anglers and despite the almost continuous rain we had managed to make a start on the winter projects we had set ourselves. This is what many people fail to realise about our job, when […]
As those of you lucky enough to have visited Molyneux will know the clearing the dead trees from large Island was one of the major tasks I had set myself this year. It has sadly been left to grow wild over a number of years. It is over run with brambles, and the trees have […]
Dave Moore with the Big Lin at 42lb 4oz Molyneux Report to 15th September 2012… This week’s anglers arrived all together at around mid-morning. Dave phoned to say he and his mate Richard were at the main gate, and asking if I could let them in. By the time I had walked round to them, the […]
Anthony and Micky, were packed and away nice and early on Saturday morning. The weather had changed dramatically, with high winds and it was becoming increasingly wet by the minute. Perfect carp fishing weather for Molyneux !! We were due three anglers on this coming week, and two of them soon arrived, brothers, Russell and […]
Anthony and his pb 34lb Mirror This week’s Molyneux anglers turned up nice and early having managed to squeeze onto an earlier ferry across. With no anglers on the previous week it was no problem and we welcomed them in with the usual cuppa, followed by a wander round. Anthony and Micky seemed really likable […]
Helen and I were sat on our favourite logs overlooking the lake with a cup of coffee each when the phone rang to let us know anglers for the week had started to arrive. We were expecting 4 anglers at Molyneux this forthcoming week and we were soon chatting to Reuben, and James a couple […]
Readers Question; Paul, I read your article on your March session on Molyneux and thoroughly enjoyed it. I have been let down over recent weeks by my mates on a trip to France, so I still wanted to go on my own. I have been with Angling lines a few times and I am thoroughly […]
Mike and his 27lb Common With no one on Molyneux during the week 14th to 21st July it gave Helen and I a chance to catch up on those jobs that we are always having to put off due to anglers being here and other jobs taking priority. Soon enough though the weekend loomed large on the […]
The last couple of weeks have seen us completely overhaul the showerblock on site here at Molyneux. It is a forty year old building and although in pretty good condition it was showing signs of its age, and general wear and tear. I was very lucky that I had some help in doing this with […]
