111lb cat from Morganes
Ruz & his 2 mates had a fantastic session on Morganes (w/c 27th August) taking;
* 4 x 40lb to 50lb
* 13 x 30lb to 40lb
* 55 x 20lb to 30lb
* 21 x 10lb-20lb
* 1 x 111lb cat
His comments;
“ DON’T BAIT HEAVY, just put out a few freebies wiv ur rig. Single 20mm hookbait.. we used rahja spice and beazz specials.
Amazing venue! Constant action, as soon as ya head touches the pillow ur alarms start screamin off!!! “
Alan, Phil, Chris & Richy fished Morganes w/c 16th July and had a stunning week! Over to them;
” We had 2,340 lb of fish in the week!
Alan had over 1,000lb of cats out of cat lake including one at 118lb and a 114lb – prob the two biggest cats in the lake. However, due to the drought in France at the moment the cat lake needed more water in it as only one person could fish it at anytime. The water level was at least 5 foot down from the bank.
On the carp lake each angler had approx 400lb of carp each; Phil had a 35lb common, 42lb mirror and a PB at 45.2lb. Chris also achieved a pb of 35.5 mirror and a 29lb grassy. Ricky also had carp over 40lb.
We couldn’t have had a better weeks fishing! Thanks once again to Lauron for his help.
All the fish in the carp lake were caught on CC Moores XXX Odyssey, 18mm single hook baits… no real freebies. We found out the owner feeds his fish on Betaine HNV pellets so a combo of HNV pellets and tripple X would prob work a treat. Two of us took over 20 kilo of bait and only used 2 kilo the whole week, all xxx.
My advice would be set up on left bank opposite caravan and fish across to tree line, although two of the biggest fish were poached out of the top left corner opposite the caravan, really close in. Feed this area for a day or two before fishing it. Good luck!”
The platform on the cat lake
For anyone who has fished the cat lake at Morgane I was hoping they could advise me. I have seen the photos of what I think people refer to as the ‘wobbly’ wooden platform. Is that the only place to fish from?
I intend to do a few nights on the carp lake then switch to the cat lake later in the week. The photos dont really show the banks and the general layout but can you put a bivvy up close to the bank and still get to your rods quickly?
Finally, realistically how many people can fish the cat lake at any one time? I know the owner has made some improvements to the carp lake but for anyone who has been recently has anything been done at the cat lake? If anyone can help I would be grateful.
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Reply from Martin Barker, Angling Lines French Rep;
I can answer some of your questions as I popped in there recently. The platform is solidly built and attached to the bank. People probably refer to it as ‘wobbly’ because it’s a floating platform.
The platform is not the only place to fish the cat lake. You could bivvy up on the right side of the lake and access the boat from there too. I guess that you could bivvy up right next to the mobile home as an alternative. It’s a very short dash to the platform from there.
See below for some more photos. Hope that helps.
The entrance to the platform
There's room to bivvy up on the banks...
The view from the platform
The 80lb Mandarin cat goes back home to the cat lake next door!
The recent stock check at Lords received such resounding approval from anglers that Laurent Bigot has decided to repeat the task at Morgane.
The first step was to remove all unwanted fish from the lake. Along with a number of small carp, 4 large cats between 40 and 80lb were removed. The cats have now been put back into the adjacent Morgane cat lake where they belong.
No one knows why or when these cats were moved from the cat lake to the carp lake. Perhaps some anglers did it for a laugh, but when you consider the enormous amount of bait an 80lb cat can sweep up in just one pass, it’s not so funny for carp anglers who are unaware of their presence.
Of course, there’s nothing at all wrong with having big cats in a carp lake, just as long as both the anglers and lake owners know that they are there. Anglers can adjust tactics and lake owners can adjust their winter feeding programme to accommodate the cats.
The presence of these 4 large cats could also go someway to explaining the mystery of why the larger carp had dipped in weight last year. It could ultimately have led to catastrophic results.
The 50lb common!
Anyway, the cats are now back where they belong and Laurent has adjusted the lake rules to make it clear that moving fish between the carp lake and the cat lake is strictly forbidden.
In the final phase of the stock check, Laurent will be producing a list of every fish in the carp lake and we’ll be publishing this as soon as we have it… hopefully next week.
In the meantime, we were there earlier to see the removal of the cats and we had a sneak glimpse of some of the bigger carp. We saw lots of 30′s and 7 carp over 40lb. One common weighed in at 22.7KG. That’s just topping 50lb.
We’re all looking forward to next week when the full stock check takes place and those weights will be confirmed, but it’s looking like both the cat and the carp lake should produce some stunning catches in 2011.
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