Last night & Dave`s 41lb mirror
Nick & Dave despite bad weather hail and wind manged this fantastic catch at Lac du Val
* 5 x 40s
* 8 x 30s
* 31 x 20s
* 12 x doubles
* 1 x cat
total – 1,500lb haul!!!
Carp fishing France at Lac du Val
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We have just heard from lake owner Sebastien that one of this week’s anglers has banked Blue Lake‘s first 40 with a carp of 42lb.
And it looks like the anglers (Denton group of 4) are in for a busy time this week. Early Monday morning and they have already chalked up over 20 carp and a new lake record.
We’ll keep you posted.
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
53lb
Beaurepaire was born in 2005 , 7 years ago and the big decision that faced Bernard at the time was how to stock the lake. He could obviously go for smaller numbers and bigger carp and stock additional fish along the way or start the lake in it’s infancy with good quality smaller carp, just doubles and twenties and wait for the carp to grow.
52lb
His decision was to stock higher numbers of quality smaller carp and show patience. So we started to market the lake as a real runs water but a thirty would initially be hard to come by. Whilst a few more fish and catfish have been stocked intermittently, the stock has remained mainly unchanged, apart from the sizes…
In the intervening years we have seen remarkable growth rates and huge numbers of very happy anglers but never have I seen a start to the year like this. It looks to me that Beaurepaire has finally come of age, and whilst it keeps it’s title as a consistent runs water, the sizes of the carp caught is now excellent.. and Beaurepaire has just shown it’s come of age with 3 x 50′s in one week! All this despite 3 weeks of the worst April weather France has seen in 13yrs.
Venton Party 14th to 21st April 2012.
50 plus fish… 53lb, 52lb 3oz, 50lb, 7 x 40′s to 45lb 8oz, 15 x 30′s to 37lb 8oz and loads of 20′s to 29lb
The Hiatt Party 14th to 21st April
21 fish… 8 x 40 upto 47, smallest 24
Ben Hopkins party 7th to 14th April
23 fish in total… 5 x 40s 7 x 30s
Angling holidays at Beaurepaire
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