Wednesday morning update.

With a lovely group of anglers on this week consisting of 3 father and son combinations it has been lots of fun and banter but not so many fish as I would have liked. With a strong north easterly wind and clear sunny skies fishing has been slower than usual with most fish coming either during the night or early in the morning before the wind picks up again. The N/E wind has been a feature for a few weeks now and certainly has slowed things down for many lakes. Yesterday alone I had 3 fishery owners phone me to see how we were doing with reports of very low catches….one lake in Normandy had just one carp for 8 anglers up to wednesday morning!! One thing is for certain and that is along with a change in the weather will come a change in fortunes with some cracking catches on the cards. One pleasing aspect of the fish so far caught is that they are in superb condition with most of the spawning damage now healed.

Despite the doom and gloom we have seen some lovely fish out topped by yet another 40 banked by Bob at 40lb 7oz. There have also been 6 x 30’s out with the best of them being a cracking 37lb 8oz mirror to Arrum. Total catch so far is 23 fish and lots of new pb’s for the lads included. Yound Jack had his 16th birthday celebrated here on tuesday and his dearest wish was to catch a 25lb carp (only recently broken the 20lb barrier). Well, on cue came his new pb at 27lb 14oz …….well done Jack, next in line is that first 30 !! Jacks father Ian has also had both mirror and common pb’s.

Brian (and wife Marie) has been camped up on the shallows with son Mark and so far have had little luck. A nice 25lb common to Brian last night has compensated somewhat for the several good fish he has lost with Mark also losing an estimated ‘big 30′ at the net. In fact its fair to say we have seen more fish hooked and lost this week than for some time so with a little luck the catch rate could have been a good bit higher. With a change in the weather forecast for tomorrow afternoon it will be interesting to see how the fishing responds.

You will remember the lone duckling I wrote about a week or so ago well, you will be pleased to hear that it is now bigger, fatter and getting its adult plumage so that really she (yes a she) has done so well to survive when her 11 siblings failed to do so. The lake at the moment is home to several large broods of duckling and a couple of families of coot as well. The grebes have not appeared to have produced any young so far this year but we are hoping that they are just leaving it a little later than usual.

Arrum and his new pb at 37lb 8oz.

A pb mirror for Ian.

And a pb common for Ian.

Yound birthday boy Jack and his new pb carp.

Jack and his first sturgeon.

Brian and his new pb common.

Bob found that his first ever 40lb carp was to much of a handful on the mat so opted to put it back without a picture rather than stress the fish out any further. A great attitude, putting the welfare of his quarry before pictures !! I do have it all on video though so not all is lost.

Below is a picture of Bob in action.

~ by jimeveriss on June 24, 2009.