Hook Lake Syndicate
Hook Lake Syndicate is a carp lake based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. It has a stock of around carp and is 2.5 Acres in size. The biggest carp is over 30lb+
Type of Venue: Estate Lake
Lake Sizes: 2.5 acres
Features: Pads, Reeds, Snags
Fish stocking – Sizes – Other species: There are around 50 carp weighing into the low 30’s as well as pike, tench, perch, roach and rudd.
Best baits, tactics etc: Boilies for bottom fishing, mixers for floater fishing or stalking with particles/naturals.
Popular swims, areas: The Boat House Swim and The Cliff Swim.
Winter Fishing: Very productive during the day. Best to bait up an area a couple of days in advance.
Facilities: None – It’s a very natural lake in the middle of nowhere. The village of Northaw does have two pubs. Potters Bar that is only a few miles away has a small fishing tackle shop.
Rules / Guidelines: Mainly common Sense rules apply (see rules).
Membership: The syndicate has a maximum of 25 members.
Open Season: The season runs from 1st May – 30th April
There are 16 recognised swims on Hook Lake which are all large enough to hose a bivvy with many of them easily big enough for a two man bivvy.
As the lake is rarely busy, traditionally most fishing is carried out by setting up in swims on the woods side of the lake (the swims on the left of the fishery map) and casting across the lake to the margins of the swims on the field side (the swims on the right of the map).
By fishing in this way bank side noise can be kept to a minimum along the margins you are actually fishing. Of course anglers wishing to fish from the field side are perfectly at liberty to do so and when members are fishing opposite one another the ‘half way’ rule apples.
All of the swims on the fishery have their own little hot spots which once you’ve worked out where they are, make what may have initially been a difficult fishery, become a lot easier.
