{"id":9363,"date":"2012-12-09T03:52:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T02:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=9363"},"modified":"2013-11-20T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:53:08","slug":"a-day-session-on-villefond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/a-day-session-on-villefond\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day Session on Villefond"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Measels at 44.04<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday 17th November;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I arrived at Villefond<\/a> just as the sun was rising which at this time of year is about 8am. By 9am I had all three rods in the water. \u00a0My left rod was a small piece of meat on the bottom, my middle rod was a cut down 15mm pop up and finally my right hand rod was a 10mm white pop up. As with all my fishing I use size 8 hooks, flying back leads, back leads and tight lines.<\/p>\n

My left hand and middle rods were dropped on a gravel spot at about 120 yards with my row boat out in the middle of the lake. My right hand rod was chucked out to the right at a patch of bubbles, hopefully a feeding fish.<\/p>\n

\"38lb

38.08<\/p><\/div>\n

10.15am just as my dad was walking round the lake to see how I was doing my left had rod with the meat on bleeped, once, twice, and then I struck. The fish kited straight to the right and as most the fish in our lake they don\u2019t seem to really fight hard until they get into the margins. I knew from the jerky runs and seeing the fish fighting near the surface it wasn\u2019t a big fish by Villefond standards. It topped the scales at 38lb 8oz\u2019s which I was still very happy with as I knew I still had one more bait on the spot with a good chance their was other fish feeding down there.<\/p>\n

I boated the bait back out and as I was sinking the line and putting on my back lead my middle rod took off on a screaming run. Immediately as I struck I felt a much heavier weight on the other end of my line and the slow really deep motion of the fish indicated this was a bigger carp. During the fight as the fish kitted to the right in went under and got caught round my right hand rod. I always put a lot of effort into pinning my lines down so I know somewhere out in front of me there must be a gully or deeper hole along the bottom of the lake.<\/p>\n

In the margins the fish fought really really hard still just hugging the bottom which had me and my dad thinking this could be a nice fish. Eventually I pulled the fish over the net my dad was holding for me and our suspicions were correct this was a bigger fish. The fish went 44lb 4oz\u2019s and I recognised it as fish known as Measles because of a small cluster of tiny scales that resemble spots on its tail, it was a nick name that stuck.<\/p>\n

Shortly after getting my rods out again I had a run on my left hand rod. \u00a0As I struck I didn\u2019t tighten the bit runner enough and as I lifted line just span off the reel. This small error was all the clever Villefond carp needed and it quickly shook the hook before I could set it properly and left me cursing myself. The two fish before helped to lessen the pain of this escaped fish so I wasn\u2019t too annoyed at myself.<\/p>\n

\"10lb

Just a baby at 10.04!<\/p><\/div>\n

All went quiet and I got my rod back out, my dad left and I laid on my bed chair and had a few hours shut eye. At 2:30pm my dog saw me stir and came over to say hello. As I reached out my rod began to scream at me again. I struck and felt a small carp which I quickly had in the net. It was a 10lb 4oz Villfond baby, offspring of our monster carp and looked a really solid little tank with massive shoulders, a real future monster.<\/p>\n

Shortly after I packed up so I could run my dog before it got dark and I left looking forward to my next session on the lake.<\/p>\n

Carp fishing in France<\/a> at Villefond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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