Sun in my office and fish in the lake!

For the first time this year the sun is shining in my office window! Not because it has been cloudy but because it is now far enough round in the sky to actually shine in the window in the late afternoon.....within a very short time it will be setting behind my back, between the hills of Carneddau. 

Yesterday, after much searching, I ordered the fish for the Round Lake. Because the lake is 'on line'  (this does not mean it is connected to t'internet) with the stream we have to have fish that have a health check. Even though the Environment Agency gave us a pretty long list of suppliers, none were in our part of Wales, so the dear little tiddlers are coming from Wolverhampton!  Now I am chasing up on some leads for Brown Trout to put in the Long Lake.  I am afraid that the fish will be quite small this year but like children, they grow very rapidly and I do hope that visitors can get have some sport with them. We will not be selling the fishing commercially, just for the use of visitors to the site.

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written by Shelley, March 10, 2009

ooooo little man may get to use his fishing gear then hes had it 2 years and its seen water once, he will have lots of time to practice. probably have to buy the princess a rod now as well. Congrats it surprising how many campers/caravanners love to fish, while there on site i think it will be a welcome asset to FF

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written by alice potter, March 10, 2009

Hi everyone
That's the fisherman sorted with Black Country Fish, any chance of some Welsh Mules for me and Rosie to practice on?
Hope to see you all soon.

Alice and the Collies

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written by carol broomfield, March 11, 2009

Any signs of Penny Bow Wave? I am not a fisherman/woman,but i like to see fish in a lake,i take it they only stay in a keep net then get put back.Katie you could sell/hire fishing Tackle.
Carol.

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written by sonya young, March 11, 2009

cant wait to come down and let little one try his hand at fishing he just had fishing set for his birthday, where better to learn, than chilling a fforest fields. then we can canoe on the other lake too.

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written by Bill Nicholls, March 12, 2009

Now we can sit and watch herrons fishing in the ponds.

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written by Katie Barstow, March 12, 2009

Ha! Bill, I know, we have been warned! The upside is that it might encourage the otters that we already know we have on the farm, the downside is that they will probably scoff all the little swimmers.......Alice, do you remember that wonderful series Ballykissangel when they put all the cardboard cutout sheep over the hills to try and fool the 'spy in the sky' - we could do that for you!

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written by Katie Barstow, March 12, 2009

No sign of Penny Bow-wave at the moment. She and her mate made off when the lakes froze over, I expect they are at the nest that they used last year. We do have increasing numbers of duck on the Long Lake though. We are starting our programme of tree planting. Over the next two years or so we shall be putting in a large number to landscape the lakes. Nothing too close, but lovely 'proper' trees and shrubs and smaller, more ornamental ones, nearer the edges, in clumps.

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written by steve orton, March 13, 2009

Glad the fish are in cannot wait until they grow a lot bigger then i can relax in the country air,soak up the atmosphere of the peace and quite (apart from the odd cow and sheep!!) and dangle my maggot in the water. Hopefully catch a decent sized fish. Ps: You will need a section on the photo board for the catches, plus a new picture board in the site office, as i can garauntee this will get full very quickly.

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written by Bill Nicholls, March 19, 2009

Oow otters my favorite animals Issy can tell you a story about them. Think I will sit and watch out for them.

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written by Shelley, March 19, 2009

something else for you take pics of Bill lol

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written by Katie Barstow, March 19, 2009

Rather reasureingly Mr. Haynes who delivered our fish said that otters prefer larger ones....so we might not loose these all in the first week! They are quite small at tha moment but apparently grow well and multiply....it's lovely seeing the rings in the water as they surface. (apparently those rings are beacons to herons - I never knew there was so much to keeping (keeping being THE word!) fish) Within in a very short time they had swum right over to the waterfalls on the other side of the lake. Lucky little people, what a lovely place to live! I am going to dig up some of the beautiful yellow flag irisis that we have growing on the farm and re-locate them to the lake side.

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written by Shelley, March 19, 2009

cant wait to get there to see them. hope there will be some left after the herons and the otters have finished with them lol .

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written by John Rademaker , April 01, 2009

Have you named the trout, yet?

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written by Katie Barstow, April 02, 2009

No, not yet John! We should of but with about 1,000 fish I ran out of names after Peter Perch, Tabathia Tench and Caroline Carp.......any suggestions would be welcome!! Perhaps we can just call them 'Fishy-fishy-fish-fish', they don't seem to come to anything yet! Like our cat who is called Cat because that's what she reacts to when we tell her off!!

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written by Katie Barstow, April 03, 2009

Geroge says this is why none of them have been answering - we don't have any Peter Perches, we have Roger Roaches instead....stoopied me!!

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written by John Rademaker , April 04, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFTjeaDlxDI

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written by Katie Barstow, April 04, 2009

That is WONDERFUL! Thank you John so much for sending it - we have all had a good laugh........"Heeeeeere Fishy Fishy Fishy" is the new cry!!

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