News at Bletiere

We have Graham and Steve and their wives here this week.  This is steves first carp fishing trip ever... and what a start to the week he has had!

The guys fished yesterday and had already had some carp out up to 29lb, but the best was yet to come!

This morning, after about 1 hour, steve had a screaming run that resulted in the new lake common record at 43 lb 4oz.

Well done Steve and it at least shows you dont have to be an expert and commited carper to catch good fish here.

I will update as the week goes on.

Tight lines!

John

43lb 4oz new pb and lake record

Having now seen the back of a very wet and cold April I thought I would just have a quick look at the catch reports. Despite some awful weather where some of the anglers did not even fish but sat in the gite in the dry, we have had a pretty good month.

It seems to have been a good winter at most lakes for the carp putting on weight and here as always I fed the fish heavily during the winter and I can now see this paying of with some big fish coming out and in very good condition.

The number of thirties that are coming out is really good and a lot of fish just nudging the forty pound mark so this year should see a lot more forties out.  We have already had (from the end of last year) twelve different forties out.

For April just the fish over twenty pounds the list is;

*  6 x 40's

*  27 x 30's

*  31 x 20's

Not bad catch rates despite the weather doing all it can to make it hard for us.

Looking forward to another good year with the fish steadily putting on weight.

Tight lines,

John

Ken.43lb 15oz	Richard. 41lb 8oz	Duncan.39lb

I went down to help Len land a good carp that turned out to be the new lake record mirror at 43lb 15oz and what a fish it was,as we were talking about the new record Lens other rod screamed off and after a good fight a 38lb 3oz common graced the banks and all in 10 mins.

Well done len on the new Bletiere record and good angling,

Tight lines,

JOHN

NEW LAKE RECORD. 43LB 15OZ	38LBS 3OZ

With the weather this week being the worst we have experianced for April in the 5 years we have been here I thought the guys may have struggled this week,but I need not have worried as despite some really heavy rain they have been catching steadily since they arrived.Last night Ken managed to catch in the pouring rain the biggest common to be landed here at 42 lb 9 oz,but sadly no one heard his cries and so we only have a picture of the carp in the unhooking cot.

Well done Ken and another record for La bletiere.

Tight lines,

John

We have Len and Paul fishing here this week and after a slow start they have now both broken their pb's and Len has broken the lake record for a common.

Pauls new pb was a 30lb 10oz common and then last night Len broke the lake record and smashed his pb by over 20lb with a common of 42lb.

Well done guys and its still only Monday!

John

Lens new record at 42lb	Paul's new pb at 30lb 10oz