{"id":300,"date":"2013-12-09T13:15:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T13:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottingtonlakes.co.uk\/?page_id=300"},"modified":"2018-01-30T14:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:05:31","slug":"alder-lake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cottingtonlakes.co.uk\/alder-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Alder Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #99ccff; font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>Alder Lake<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-419\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cottingtonlakes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2009alder001.jpg\" alt=\"2009alder001\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Although more open than the other Cottington Lakes waters, Alder Lake is crammed with fish including Common and Mirror Carp into double figures, some big tench and bream, and good stocks of roach, rudd and chub.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Offering 12 well-spaced pegs, Alder Lake varies in depth from five-and-a-half feet to about 12 feet in places and techniques and baits vary depending upon the conditions and time of year, although all methods generally work well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cottingtonlakes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2009alder002.jpg\" alt=\"2009alder002\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because it can be a prolific water, anglers are restricted to using a maximum of two rods.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As with other waters at Cottington, groundbait can only be used if dispensed with a pole cup or feeder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Favourite spots for anglers are at either end of the lake and, as to be expected, fishing into the wind usually provides the best results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alder Lake Although more open than the other Cottington Lakes waters, Alder Lake is crammed with fish including Common and Mirror Carp into double figures, some big tench and bream, and good stocks of roach, rudd and chub. Offering 12 well-spaced pegs, Alder Lake varies in depth from five-and-a-half feet to about 12 feet in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottingtonlakes.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottingtonlakes.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottingtonlakes.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottingtonlakes.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottingtonlakes.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottingtonlakes.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottingtonlakes.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}