Tips and Hints

Pic above: Always willing to help the local community Solhampton owner Burgess Homer supplied local junior football team a strip for the new season. (I'm sure they will hit the net more times than he does :-)

Watch out for this man at the fishery he's the well known millionaire Terry Kavanagh, owner of UK clothing empire TK Max.
Terry likes to get away from his retail empire with a spot of fishing at Solhampton.
Terry is also three times Stourbridge Cage Fighting Champion (over 60s) West Midlands Conker Eating Champion and a bouncer at The Marshmallow Eaters Nursing Home in Dudley.

Angling Banter No 4
Add a dustbin lid to the end of your pole.
Hey presto instant cover the fish will move under........more bites!!!

Angling Banter No1
"Youre float isnt sensitive enough"
Youre joking, I just shouted at it and it started to cry!!!"

Angling banter No 2
I know an angler who was so thick he thought bite indicators were bruises on your neck!!!

Angling banter No 3
Have you heard the one about the fishery owner who was told there wasnt enough fish in his lake so he left every other peg out!!!

Every fishery needs someone who is used to watching the weight scales

Please use a plummet to test the depth of the margins.

The pigeon problem on peg 17 on the Duck Pool has now been sorted

" Thank God I came to work at Solhampton and didn't join the Army"

" I can hear you under there, I hate moles"

You get a t shirt when you catch 100lbs at Solhampton, sizes are xtra small to xtra wide!

Angling TV Superstar, Matt Hayes, lives 17 miles from Solhampton.

Toilet facilities at Solhampton are excellent

This record salmon was not caught at Solhampton

Solhampton fishery transforms in the summer, it really is the place to be on those barmy summer days.

" I was three stone heavier before he banned meat"

Anglers should try to blend in with the natural surroundings, in the pic above the angler is immitating a zebra, they are also well known for staying perfectly still for five hours at a time.

You will need glasses at Solhampton to see the peg numbers.....SUN GLASSES!!!!

Beware! Japanese snipers fish at Solhampton.