Sport & Leisure Fisheries Ltd.
High Farm
Kemberton
Shifnal
Shropshire
TF11 9LL

Tel: 01952 585002
Fax: 01952 585540
Mobile: 07860 564966
E-Mail: info@slf.uk.net

For more information contact
David Rance

Malthouse Farm is our brand new, purpose built, forty acre fish farm in Shropshire, designed solely to produce strong healthy carp for restocking. Our brood fish are kept in ideal conditions off the site and collected up in the early spring before being taken to our state of the art hatchery for spawning. Here they are spawned artificially to ensure that only the best males and females are used. The eggs are incubated until they hatch and the fry reared until they are six days old. After six days they are taken to the farm and stocked into carefully prepared out door fry ponds. These ponds are dried out and limed each winter to ensure that there can be no risk of disease or parasites affecting the tiny fry. They are filled with water a few weeks before the new fry are ready for stocking out. The fry are fed on a mixture of very special natural and artificial diets which ensure that they get the perfect start to life.

At the end of the summer, the fry will have grown to 4-6 inches in length and are ready for sale as young fish or stocking into one of our large production ponds for growing for another year or two. These are ponds of between one and three acres which have been carefully constructed to produce the ideal conditions for growing carp. They are all completely drainable and are regularly drained, dried out and limed to ensure we produce strong healthy fish.

Typically, one summer fish are up to six inches in length, two summer fish up to 10” and three summer fish up to around three pounds.

The fish ready for sale are carefully netted up using seine nets and transported back to our holding site for grading and sorting prior to sale. All our stock is graded and counted by hand to ensure that the fish we send to you are immaculate.

We do not keep any brood fish or any other fish at the farm ensuring that we can not inadvertently introduce parasites or viruses to the growing fish as have so many other operators. For the same reason no fry other than those from our own hatchery are stocked onto the farm and because of the risk from dirty nets we do not entertain fishermen on the site.

Our farm and hatchery are both regularly inspected by CEFAS (the fishy bit of the old MAFF organisation) and our fish certified healthy by an independent fish health inspectors.