A welcome day !!

I spent a pleasant hour so this evening sitting on the dam and watching the carp thrashing around in the weed beds over much of the lake. They have been at it since the early hours of this morning and with the prospect of warm sunny weather for the next few days we confidently expect…

A cold but productive week.

The weather has been all over the place over here in France and overnight changes from 29c to 9c during the daylight hours and a drop from the high teens to freezing during the night has really confused the carp as much as it has us! The week just completed was one of cold N/E…

Blame it on the weather !!!

I got back to LMDM last night and much as I enjoyed spending time with my family it was great to be back. When I left the place was still looking rather drab following the severe floods of the previous week so it was really lovely return to see that the tree’s were covered in…

Just call me Noah !!!

I now can appreciate the problems that Noah faced in biblical times. Rain, rain and then heavy rain have been the constant for the week just concluded with the lakes rising like never before and the anglers flooded off on Friday night. All swims were under water, the road was a river and the shower…

The First Week of the new season….

It is nice to have our first week under our belt and also to see some nice fish banked on both lakes. The weather was unseasonably warm with temperatures up to 20c or so accompanied by very high air pressure all week. Not the best of conditions for our first week of the season but…

And so it begins.

I have just returned from a pleasant walk around the lakes. The sun is out at last and the whole atmosphere of the place has taken a lift after the rain of this morning. The spring flowers are aglow everywhere and the flowering tree’s are being visited by myriads of bee’s and other pollen loving…

Is it really Spring ???

The annals say that spring is now here and we should rejoice in its glory !! The truth is that weeks, nay months, of near constant rain and wind have created a morass of muddy, waterlogged, tracks surrounding lakes which in turn that have been overflowing constantly since refilling after the netting last December. I…

And the new season approaches….

I am afraid that I have been rather remiss in relying on posting in Facebook and not keeping the blog up to date. I am sorry about that and will ensure that weekly updates will begin once more with all catch reports published with pictures. Today has been a real joy with warm sunshine replacing…

Well, that’s it for another year.

Our final week of the 2023 season has now come to a close, a tough week but with fish up to 70lb banked the lads went home with a smile on their face. In fairness the final weeks of the season, whilst producing some fine fish, were marred by the torrential rain that has rapidly…

When the big girls came out to play.

A week that started with almost ideal fishing conditions gradually reverted to very warm sunny weather as the week progressed and catches slipped away towards the latter part of the session. The catch of 41 carp seems moderately good at first glance but when you look more closely at the individual weights it can be…