Author: Phil Seedhouse

We are now just putting the final finishing touches to Island and Jim’s pools ahead of the fishery opening date. The pools now look stunning with the addition of the blue dye that has been added to both pools and the fishery will be opening very soon. We have already received several enquiry’s from people wishing to re-join the club but in the meantime please wait until the fishery has opened. We intend to open very soon.

This Saturday 17th May we plan to get a working party together to meet at the fishery at 9.30am to clear out the last of the weed. If you can spare a few hours it will be greatly appreciated. If you can attend please just turn up at the fishery. The location of the fishery is circled in red below.

Please take a look at the two slide shows below of each pool which will give you a flavor of the two pools and all the hard work that has taken place!

Island pool (22 pegs)

Jim’s pool (12 pegs)

The two new pools at Libbery, Island pool and Jim’s pool will very soon be ready to open. All the work installing the 34 new fishing platforms across the two pools has now been completed as well as all the work that has been already done allowing access to the pools. All that remains was to remove the extensive weed growth from the years of neglect after previous sitting club. This work was a massive undertaking and to big even for our band of loyal members who have already put many hours of hard labour into the project. We had to call in a specialist contractor, Aquatic Solutions UK to complete the work.

We have come a very long way from the start of the fishery renovations that were started over 6 months ago, looking at the pictures below. Our team of dedicated, loyal hard working members, Jim, Rob, Alan, Richard, Gary, Bob and Pat. Your hard work will be greatly appreciated by the membership.

How it was

How its going

All there is now to do is to clear out the floating debris off the surface of both pools. We will then be adding blue dye to the water to suppress future weed growth and to give it a nice finish prior to the fishery opening which will be very soon. watch this space!

Following on from our last post just before Christmas work continues to progress at the clubs new forthcoming home waters at Libbery. The small dedicated group of members, Jim, Rob, Richard, Alan, Bob and Pat have put in many hours of tireless work during the winter months and have now completed work on the smaller of the two pools, now to be known as ‘Jim’s pool’ with 12 new fishing platforms installed. All that remains is to tidy up the banks and to sow some grass seed to green up the banks up and to reduce muddy areas ahead of a planned opening in April.

Work has now moved onto the the larger of the two pools, ‘Island pool’ which again requires a lot of work to give anglers access to the bankside where another 22 new fishing platforms will become available to members to fish from once the pools open. This will give the club a total of 34 pegs for members to fish and enjoy.

Work is still on-going ahead of the planned opening in April. If you would like to get involved and enjoy getting your hands dirty there is still plenty do. please get in touch.

During the summer months of 2024 and now well into the winter, a few hard working dedicated Jubilee members have been working extremely hard behind the scenes, giving up their spare time and putting many hours in, clearing overgrown trees and brambles and installing brand new fishing platforms on one of the two fishing pools the club has acquired in preparation for these new fishing pools at Libbery nr Upton Snodsbury to be the clubs new home waters and available for members to pleasure fish and for the club to hold club matches in the future.

The first pool has seen 14 new fishing platforms installed and these will be ready to fish in early 2025 and then work will begin on the second pool which will give an additional 22 pegs.

Special thanks must go to Jim Gurney and Rob Holloway who have spent ‘All Summer and counting’ at the pools doing the bulk of the heavy work on the first of the two new pools installing the new fishing platforms, cutting down trees and clearing branches/snags from the water and making good the banks. They are a real credit to the club and have also been assisited by Bob and Pat Evans, Alan and James Gardner and Richard Ford. Well done to all. But there is still plenty of work still to be done and if you can help out with a few hours help it would be gratefully appreciated.