After a short delay caused by the indian summer, Blue Lake‘s major stocking programme is under way.
A total weight of carp of 2,500lb including 33 x 30′s and 52 x 20′s is added to the existing stock.
86 carp in all with an average weight of just over 29lb.
And that’s not all………..There’s another major stocking due to take place in the new year!
The Boss at 45.08
Golden Oak Lake has just been netted in what we think is the first time in it’s 40+ year history. The owners Dick and Joe knew that a lot of small fish were going to show up but the huge volume of small fish still came as a surprise.
Planning the operation
Here’s what Dick had to say; “Thank God for the guys Angling Lines. We knew that there were a number of 10lb native carp in the lake, but it wasn’t until their field tester Paul Cooper fished here that we were alerted to the potential size of the problem. From then on, it was just a case of taking advice and having the lake netted and stocked. Angling Lines arranged the whole thing for us, right down to dealing with the French speakers at Michel Bigot’s fish farm”.
Well over 100 carp in the 10 to 12lb bracket were removed, along with well over half a ton of roach, pike and perch. All the carp over 20lb were all returned to the lake.
Netting underway
The two biggest carp returned to the lake weighed 39lb 11oz and 45lb 8oz.
Then 30 new fish were stocked, all between 20 and 31lbs.
It’s estimated that the result of the whole operation has meant that the average fish size jumped immediately from teens into the twenties – great news for the anglers who will fish this brand new venue in 2011.
You can see more photos here & there’ll be a video on-line soon.
Here’s the video of 24 more carp going into Lillypool. All the carp were above 20lb, being between 20.7 lb & and 26.4 lb.
Here’s the video of the stocking that took place at Morgane recently. Another 9 carp over 30lb and two more over 40lb were added to the carp lake. The best of the 30′s weighed 35lb 4oz and the 40′s weighed in at 43lb 6oz and 42lb 4oz.
These are added to the three 40lb carp we saw Laurent stock a few weeks ago.
Michel Bigot has just netted one of his stock ponds and dispatched 10 more carp to Sapphire Lake. The best of these were two mirrors weighing 45lb and 43lb. The others were all upper twenties.
These are added to the nine 40′s and the 50 we saw him stock a few weeks ago.
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