WAVENEY VALLEY: Weybread Fishery has been busy improving the parking and the paths and extending the business into a nicely landscaped and stocked lake for chalet holidays only.

Weybread Fishery has been busy improving the parking and the paths and extending the business into a nicely landscaped and stocked lake for chalet holidays only.

The willowy main lake has begun to fish well in its shallower areas as the water warms up. Tench and crucians filled the frame and it is not just the skimmers and roach which hold the attraction now. For anyone looking for a worthwhile outing with a youngster the central island has been a good idea. Some have taken up to 50 fish at a sitting.

Bales Nursery fishery was host to two retired York anglers on holiday who float fished the waggler in the old part of the lake for roach. They took a stone of roach each up to 1lb 3ozs each on red maggot, with the bonus of a 1lb tench.

Marsh Trail Lakes has had plenty of visitors trying their luck and being rewarded quite well for it. The carp have begun to dominate, with pegs around five to seven in A Lake producing the best results followed by the area 12 to 14 in C Pit.

Aldeby Fishery has been popular and the bottom match lake is becoming a popular established venue for silver fish enthusiasts. The other lakes hold some quite mighty carp but those taken in the high double range appear to have preferred feeding right at the end of the day, avoiding the strength of the sunlight.

Broom B Pit's big bream have begun to show and a bag of seven, all in the 6lb to 8lb range taken well out on the feeder, indicate the potential.

The central Kidney Pit continued to provide the best all round sport in the area with Tom Harbinson's quite radical bank side revisions and his generous stocking, turning this into a most acceptable and still quite reasonably priced venue. Tickets are available on the bank.

Bungay Cherry Tree Angling Club have a change of club secretary (contact dgladwell@toucansurf.com, 01508 518798 for details) to be noted, and had a profitable year in spite of being down 15 pc on their membership, as has been the case with a number of clubs. Note the old website is closed down and research is under way for a new one.

Their Lay-by Bypass Pit on the Earsham to Harleston route has been undergoing substantial changes after Ditchingham Club Pit was given up. Quantrill's Willow Farm is off the card too this year.

A lot of good fish were caught at the former Fuller's Farm stretch at Flixton but no results exceeded that of Dunburgh's tidal reach where huge perch and dace bags dominated the scene.