18/04/10

With all three lakes booked, glorious sunny weather and excellent fishing, it proved to be a busy week:

Rouge

Four anglers managed over 40 fish with carp to over 30 lbs and the biggest catfish coming out at 69lbs. It was quite a week for them with several personal bests in both carp and cats. A good time was had by all and thanks for leaving the lakes immaculate.



Vert

Four anglers had booked both Bleu and Vert and spent a day noddy bashing on Vert for silver fish but managed a lot more carp and cats than bream. I did the weigh-in with the best bream bag being just over 20lbs.

Bleu

Bleu was fished the rest of the time and managed an astonishing 137 carp and cats for a magnificent 2400+ lbs. The biggest carp was in the high twenties and the biggest cat was just over 60. A truly awesome week with lots of tales to tell of the ones that got away. Again, the lakes were left immaculate.



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John James

Opening Week

Rouge



Rouge made a flying start to the 2010 season, with a whopping 87lb catfish coming out on the first night. The action never really stopped for the four anglers, with a fantastic total of 112 fish caught, including seven 30lb-plus carp and four catfish over 60lbs. Total weight for the week was over 2400lbs.

Action was mostly from the double swim on Rouge, with things round the back a little quieter. The two fishermen in pegs five and six dropped down onto Bleu for a couple of days and found the fish in hungry mood, including some huge-looking common carp.

To quote one of the guests: "It was brilliant, best trip ever!"

Well done guys, and thanks for all the fantastic pictures.


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John James

Updates

A couple of techie updates to fill you in on before Dad spills the beans on what sounds like a fantastic opening week at the lakes.

We have embraced the power of the internet to bring you live updates from the lakes on what the weather is doing and (more importantly!) what fish are being caught. You can keep bang up to date by either following us on Twitter here, or becoming a fan of our Facebook page here. All the updates on Twitter will be posted on the Facebook page too.

So come on, sign up! If Dad can do it then there's no excuse for any of you...

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Will James