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Bay Pond Shaw High Weald · Kent
A golden common carp from the Bay Pond Shaw hammer pond resting in the landing net — one of the estate's carefully managed, club-stocked fish.
Bay Pond Shaw — The Record

From the Bank

The estate's catch log. Real fish, real weights, real dates — recorded platform by platform as the seasons turn.

Why We Keep This

A Water Is Its Record

Anglers choose a water on evidence, not adjectives. This page is the estate’s evidence: catches reported from sessions on the hammer pond, recorded as they come. Weights are as weighed on the bank; every fish went back.

Catch entries

The current season’s records are being compiled.

Catches from estate sessions are added here as they are reported. Book a session, and your fish may open the log.

“A water keeps its own records. We just write them down.”
Bay Pond Shaw — On the log

Write Yourself Into the Log

Every entry above came from a private session on this water. One party at a time — the next entry could be yours.

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