LAKE fishing is generally improving as temperatures very slowly climb by day and by night.

Most fisheries report catches of bream, carp and tench with perch still being caught from some lakes. There are signs that some species are starting to spawn as they are not feeding or being caught - roach being one of them.

Waldens Farm Fishery is one venue where sport is getting better week by week. Night anglers are catching carp into double figures from Bishops Lake and Abbots Lake and by day these two lakes are producing carp between 8lb an 10lb and one or two heavier fish to 18lb. There are some bags of quality bream coming out of the two lakes too.

The Match Lake is fishing well for carp from 3lb to 8lb, tench and skimmers, whilst Monks Lake is producing carp, tench, bream and still quite a few decent-sized perch.

Roach are absent from catches at Witherington Farm Fishery and this is being repeated at several other fisheries, but all five lakes at Witherington are fishing well for skimmers, larger bream and carp.

A mid-week match on Sellwood Lake was won, yet again, by Johnny Gray with 50lb - his third victory in as many weeks - whilst John Dewbury was second with 46lb 13oz and Gary Etheridge in third place with 32lb 14oz. Top weight of silver fish went to Ian Heydon with 20lb 8oz.

Sport is pretty good, too, at Dandy’s Ford Lane Fishery and Watergate Farm Fishery - nothing spectacular but generally steady sport throughout the day.

All lakes in the Fordingbridge and Ringwood areas are fishing well for tench, bream, carp and some silver fish, although roach are few and far between.

Salisbury Angling Club’s Nightingale Lake, near Wellow, remains open throughout the year and club members visiting the picturesque fishery are catching plenty of tench, ranging in size from a few ounces to 3lb plus carp, both mirror and common, up to double figures.