Fisheries around the Bay are starting to hit top summer form. I had a short session on Town Parks' Match Lake casting a method feeder to the big island and the carp were whacking the rod tip round within seconds of the feeder touching bottom.

Hair rigged corn was the bait for 21 fish in a three hour spell of bagging. Many of the fish were ghost carp, which scrap all the way to the net.

A visit to New Barn saw me fishing soft pellets for some clonking roach on Willow Lake. A lot of the silvers have been netted out of Mirror Lake and moved up to Willow to allow them to feed without too much competition from the big carp.

Elsewhere around the southwest, Goodiford Mill near Cullompton is a real carp bagging water with method feeder and pellet waggler the best methods. Nets of up to 300lb are regularly taken in the warmer months.

Treasure Island Lake at Bake Lakes in Cornwall is one of my all time favourite venues. I won the last match down there with 48lb of carp on worms from peg 2. Try to fish tight into the islands or along the margins where there is some cover.