Tony and his son, Luke have been coming to Carp France for a number of years under the previous owners, fishing on both lakes over this time. This year they joined us having spent a week at another lake, along with Caron, who was in charge of the cooking for the first four days before she had to return to the UK.
They knew that Kingfisher is not the easiest lake when there are just the two anglers and having only had 3 fish out between them at their previous lake they were not very hopeful for the first week.
Luke started out at the far swim on the main bank and Tony on the dam wall near to the aerator, with the knowledge that the carp like the newly oxygenated water when it is warm. This definitely worked in his favour as for the first few days he managed to catch quite a few whilst Luke was getting more and more frustrated so moved swims.
At one point Tony hooked into a catfish which gave him the right run around – to quote him directly ‘When you hook a giant cat and it runs a 100 metres quicker than Lindford Christie.’ So they got in the rowing boat and went off down the lake after it only for the cat to win and get lost in a snag.
Tony caught the biggest fish this week, a lovely 46lbs 12oz mirror right at the start of the week, as by Wednesday the cats had moved into his baited spots.
The week finished on Kingfisher with 6 carp in total, two commons and four mirrors. There were 2 carp at 20lbs+, 3 at 30lbs+ and 1 at 40lb+ alongside 3 catfish, the biggest being 38lbs. They then packed all their gear up and wheeled it across to Lac Lucie ready for the final week’s fishing and hopes for bigger and better
