July so far
The last two weeks have been excellent with fantastic wall-to-wall sunshine and fishing of the highest calibre on Vert and Rouge.

Rouge
Colin returned with two friends to rouge for the umpteeth time. Their main target was to connect with some of the lakes many big cats. Peter, the newbie, managed personal best carp and catfish within the first two days, 32lbs+ and 55lb respectively.



Many cats to 60lb were caught but the bigger cats won on most days until the last, which threw up a whopping 91lber.



Well done lads and all your photos are now on the website.

Vert

Four anglers arrived under the guise of ‘Teddys Tours’ expecting to catch fish to about 10lbs...Oops they were so wrong! After losing some tackle they realised that the fish were much bigger than expected and complained that my starter lake was awesome! Being the total professionals (yeah right) they are, they quickly acclimatised to the quality and quantity of fish in the lake. Fishing just the days they had an awesome holiday and suggested I update the website to indicate that it really isn’t a starter lake, but intermediate.

Big 20lb carp and 50lb cats were caught, for more details check out the daily catch reports on twitter.

Thanks for the entertaining time and your photos.

Tight Lines
John James

The last two weeks...

Rouge

Lee and his party fished Rouge with specific targets of PB cats and thirty pound Carp: everyone managed the cats targets but only two managed the thirty plus Carp.

Overall it was an excellent week except the big cats won all contests. I gillied one night where we seriously tried with the dumbbell rigs to land a big cat. Unfortunately, although we managed to hook two, they were just too powerful to be landed – heading straight for the snags.

Over fifty fish were caught in total with the cats to 50lbs+ and three 30lb+ carp, the biggest a stunning 36lber.



Last week saw Terry and Andy come down with two friends and grandson. Fishing both Rouge and Bleu it was a fascinating week of stunning weather and stunning fishing. For the people who have been keeping up with my “tweeting” you will know that some cracking fish were caught.

Andy is the lake record holder with a 113lb catfish and yet again he had some cracking fish as well as some ‘crack-off’ from even bigger cats. 95lb cat was the biggest and 32lb carp came in on Rouge

Another notable catch was young Kieran the grandson who seemed to improve his personal best every day finishing up with a 60lb cat.

Bleu

Bleu was completely different with only about four cats caught but many carp about fifty was the guess with the best being a fantastic 32lb common. An 88 and 69lb cat were the best and they both really beat up the catcher.

Well done to everybody and as usual thanks for leaving everything so tidy.


Tight Lines
John James