SANDHURST CLOSED FOR WEED TREATMENT

[RUTH]

Please be informed that Viv has closed Sandhurst from Tuesday 12th August 6pm until Friday 15th August 9am to enable him to complete the weed treatment of the venue.

[miller]

How did the treatment go?

Was it a partial weed clearance or a total chemical wipe-out?

Any catch reports since it opened this morning?

[funky]

the weed treatment has occurred, and has certainly affected more than the 20% that was initially indicated (probably due to the gusty winds just after the treatment was applied...) - if you were to look at the lake now you'd think it'd all gone - however at the moment all its done is drop the weed down a foot or so below the surface - apparently it will all break down in about 3 weeks so expect things to potentially get a bit easier from then on - difficult to tell if the fishing has been directly affected at this moment as it's coincided with the weather changing but i did have a couple out in the early hours this morning....so it's certainly not been detrimental....

[miller]

Cheers.....i don't fish there...i was just being nosy http://www.rmcangling.co.uk/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Hope it proves a success.

[Lewis]

The main weedbed in the CP (infront of trumptens) dropped a couple of foot as water temperatures dropped after the cool nights starting mid week last week.....might be that that has happened and the 20% will still be accurate..... http://www.rmcangling.co.uk/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[OneToner]

It won't be easier to start with Funky, It'll be blowing around all over the place LOL.

Lew, all the weed has dropped, Endworks and Island/mid secret

[Lewis]

Mad innit!!!! must be purely the water temp....

[OneToner]

water temp still very warm though, especially the secrets margin, couldn't believe how warm it was still. What about light ????? less daylight hours now ???

[Lewis]

I noticed a marked water temp reduction over that 5 day period on trummptens and the beach (in particular)

[funky]

that's what we thought initially but apparently the weed should break down into silt/mush after 3 weeks so the situation of rafts of weed blowing around shouldn't be an issue.....

as for it just being the weed dropping naturally - fairly sure it's not that as the weed in the areas which weren't treated at all is still just about visible (albeit dropped a bit) whereas in the rest of the lake it really has disappeared from sight completely and on large areas of the lake you can now chuck out a marker to bring back dying brittle weed......

[tcpcrewontour]

and what does the silt and mush break down into ....just watch the chain dont break and the dominos start to tumble ...messing with nature ...

[funky]

you don't need to tell me that tcp - or any of the other bailiffs on sandy - we were quite happy with the weed there - the fish were all coming on nicely weightwise (very nicely in some cases.... http://www.rmcangling.co.uk/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif) and it was certainly fishable if you thought about what you were doing just a little....

but hey it's not our lake...what rmc do with it is up to them...they've spent the money to develop it in the first place so from a strictly business point of view it's their risk...