Barford Lakes News

No Day Tickets Sunday 25th July

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 23rd July 2010 15:12PM

Very sorry but we will be unable to offer any day tickets this Sunday 25th July.

All ok for day tickets on Saturday 24th July.

No Day Tickets this Sunday 18th July

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 16th July 2010 18:43PM

Very sorry but we cannot offer any day tickets this Sunday 18th July.  All ok for Saturday and next week.

Pontins Fishing Festival 2010

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 7th July 2010 21:15PM
(Edited by: Sarah Thomson, 7th July 2010 21:15PM)

This year's Pontin's Pakefield Fishing Festival will be held from 1st - 8th October. This festival is fairly unique in the fact that there is coarse and sea fishing offered over the week.

Barford provides the venues for 3 of the coarse fishing days (Match, Colton and Railway Lakes) and one match is held on the River Yare. All transport to the venues is provided by coaches laid on by Pontins.

Sea fishing wise there are competitions run all week on the pier, beach and boats.

Open Matches before the Festival

You arrive at Pontins on Friday 1st October, the festival starts on the Monday. There are various well attended open matches held over the weekend before the festival so a chance to practice on the venues and win a bit of coin before the festival begins.

We will also be resting all the lakes at some point over the weekend so to ensure good sport for the week.

Fish Stocks

We have some extra stocking plans which will come in before the festival week - which is sure to increase catch rates. Match results have been brilliant this year so far as you can see from our Match results page - but due to the lateness of the festival this year we feel a small injection of fresh stock will perk things up in time for the festival.

Entertainment and tackle demos

There is also going to be more of a festival feel to the event this year with tackle displays from leading tackle firms, bait demonstrations, pole alleys etc. There will also be a sprinkling of famous anglers giving you their top tips through the week. That along with the Pontins evening entertainment it's set to be an awesome week.

For the sea anglers there should be a casting clinic to perfect your casting hopefully giving you extra distance on your cast.

Pictured below is last year's winners - all prizes were presented by Bob Nudd

Coarse winner Pontins 2009 Pontins Sea winners 2009

Accomodation

The prices for the week's accommodation - which is half board are very reasonable.

Half Board Classic Apartments £166 per adult
Half Board Club Apartments £186 per adult

It's a great place for family's with a kids programme, beach nearby, swimming pool and with the first child place free (with 2 paying adults) you really can't beat the value.

Check out the accommodation by following this link

http://www.pontins-pakefield.com/accommodation  

The catering is superb with a buffet full English for breakfast and a good variety of evening meals including a choice of hot meals, plus jacket potato bar, salad bar etc

The Fishing

The fishing is additional and the prices are as follows - coach travel is provided to all venues so saving on petrol and not having to worry about getting lost (you can travel to venue on your own if you wish) - there are four days of fishing in the coarse festival and you can mix and match sea and coarse if you wish.

Coarse £22 per day
Boat £38 per day
Pier £10 per day
Beach £3 per day

Although anglers run an unofficial optional bus pool each day the bulk of the payouts for the festival is in Tackle prizes - and they are very good! Last year's prices included top end rods, reels, sets of luggage and poles for overall winners which were all presented by Bob Nudd.

Pontins Prizes 2009

Booking and Groups of 10 Discount

To book for this week please call the Pontins booking line on 0844 576 5949 and quote - Pakefield Fishing Festival 1st - 8th October.

If you contact Chris Walker direct at Pontins on 01502 502912 he can sort you out a special deal for groups of 10+

It's a good week's fishing with an awesome atmosphere.  If you need any further details feel free to give me (Sarah) a call on 01603 759624