Welcome to the Boyer Leisure Ltd website for the 2009 – 2010 season. On the permits page you will find that you are now able to download and print a permit application form which you can post along with two passport photo’s when applying for membership at any of our waters. You can also download the entire 2009 – 2010 brochure in PDF form which, to be fair, is pretty much the same as the website except on paper.

Harefield Lake received nearly fifty hand picked Carp at the end of 2007. Mostly consisting of heavily scaled and starburst Mirrors these fish have been putting on the pounds over the last year and a bit and the vast majority are now near or over the 20lb mark. These fish were introduced at relatively low initial weights because we wanted to restock fish we had grown on from Harefield strain carp rather than buy in from elsewhere and they had reached high single to low double weights when stocked into Harefield directly from our own fish farms. Please note that due to reparation works scheduled for this season Harefield Lake will not open until 1st September 2009.

Rodney Meadow also received a stocking in 2007. This was required after we lost a fair few fish in 2005 after a blue green algal bloom crash caused serious oxygen depletion. Commercial high pressure water pumps have been permanently sited at Rodney Meadow since this time and allow use to aerate thousands of gallons of water an hour should it be required. The new fish have been growing on well with many reaching high twenties and the old originals seem quite happy too as was shown when the ‘ Three Quarter Linear’ was banked at a new top weight of 44lb 2oz last year.

Stockley Lake also received a small stocking of new Carp in 2007 and these fish have also been putting on the pounds. Stockley continues to be a very popular water with some incredibly pretty fully scaled carp and of course target fish ‘Gertie’ which currently hovers just above or below the 40lb mark.

Thorney Pool reopened properly last season, we had restocked the lake with Carp but had underestimated the popularity of the water to those anglers targeting species other than carp and due to this membership was down on previous years. We cannot safely stock any more silvers into Thorney Pool until the end of this year and therefore we have reduced the price of an annual permit for this season..

Farlows Lake continues to be one of the countries most popular day ticket waters with anglers traveling from all over the country. The lake contains an awful lot of fish and with the amount of quality bait that goes in over the year the fish are growing well. At last count there are about thirty six fish that can be over thirty pounds at the right time of year with eighty percent of these being full time thirties. There are hundreds of fish that are over twenty pounds and god knows how many doubles. The current lake record stands at 38lb 14oz which was a fish known as the ‘Big Italian’ , this fish has not been caught for a couple of years now and many anglers though that it had got trapped in the Match Lake when we permanently separated the two waters. However in March this season Carp TV were down filming with Ian Russell and whilst ‘up a tree’ they spotted a very large Carp in the snags of Pads Bay. Ian thought that this fish looked like the ‘Big Italian’ and whilst he couldn’t positively identify it he was sure that the fish they were watching was over 40lb so who knows!. The bar and café complex were taken over by Boyer Leisure Ltd over the winter of 2007/2008 and has been going from strength to strength. The café is open seven days a week from 8am til 2pm and later on Bank Holidays and summer weekends, we have also introduced evening menu’s which are available through the bar.

Farlows Match Lake has become an incredibly popular venue over the last few years. Regular stockings with Silvers has seen match weights regulary exceed one hundred pounds and even in the Winter months has regulary produced bags over eighty pounds. Due to it’s popularity the lake is booked for matches on most Sundays and Wednesdays so please check with Farlows Tackle prior to visiting on these days.
Farlows Lake will once again host a qualifying round of the British Carp Championships over the weekend of the 17th – 19th April 2009