Monday 2nd week

Its about time i have had one a welcome fish i am made up. Taken on plastic corn something i never would use back in England At 32lb i am well chuffed i just hope it's the start of things to come Martin is doing really well catching a few it is keeping him intrested

Friday Day 7 End of the 1st week

Its the end of the 1st week and what a week it's been Merv and Martin are the one's doing the catching. I am very down at the minute and frustrated again i have had nothing. Martin lost a good fish last night at about 11.00pm Merv and Tich are struggling to get amongst them as the weather has turned very hot the temps is in the high 30's and the fish are just laid sunning themselves on top.

Thursday Day 6

Merv continues to catch steady and has 3 fish this morning Biggest a 52-04 plated mirror which Tich had last year at 47lb so the fish are putting on the weight. As for me i have now moved swims to the other side of the lake. Apart from one take and a lost fish Saturday night that is all i have had not a bleep in 5 days so made up my mind to move on to showing fish.
The swim i am now in is on the opposite side of the lake and in the middle It's great for viewing the whole lake. Got 3 new spots all marked up with h-blocks and feeling good about the move
One spot is in a 9 foot hump that falls all sides to 13foot and is rock hard on the top feels like the fish have been feeding hard on this spot. The other 2 rods are are sat in 12 foot and 13 foot at the back of weed beds. As for the weed it is now clear that the lads really did a worst job than what we 1st thought. Seems they put the rake in the middle of the lake and pulled back from there once the rake was full it just flattened the weed in front of it because now after a few days of lying flat the weed is now popping up and you can see just how thick it is it will be unfishable in a few weeks if Chris does not do it again.

Monday Day 3

Martin got me on the 2 way radio at 3.10am and told me he had a lump in the net and would go and help him out. I went round after to getting myself together. I new right away that it was a fish he said he would have liked on this trip and the scales confirmed it a 50-03LB mirror That's what he wanted from this trip a 50 and his 1st fish was a 50 how good was that.

The weather today so perfect with a nice cool wind blowing across towards the top of the lake which is where most of the fish are showing towards martin and merv. Early afternoon and merv is in to his 1st fish a stunning chestnut mirror and tipped the scales at 42-08 while Tich opened his account with a nice looking 26LB mirror. Things are not going to plan for me yet but with 3 new spots i found today hopefully it will happen soon lol

Sunday Day 2

Let me say that i will not be posting every day but will post on most of the trip and what happened.

The 1st night was not that productive which i would say is the norm for this type of lake with guys packing and leaving and new guys turning up and settling in for the week it will be a day or two for things to get back on track. I went out in the boat and found more spots to bait up not an easy job as the weed was so bad. The guy's that was on the week before was there to rake the lake and remove the weed but to be honest they did a pretty poor job of it it was soon clear that this was going to be hard work again. Just like last year if and when you hooked a fish you at to get in a boat to have any chance of landing it. It's not a good thing to do at say 1.30am in the pitch black of night being in a boat.

Me merv and tich all had runs saturday night but none on the bank Martin was yet to get his rods out!

Day 1 saturday 29th

Morning came around very quick we managed to get a good night's sleep we was all knackered from the long drive the day before. That's why we travel the day before and not threw the night because the 1st day is just too much what with setting up and getting your rods out it just makes sense to go the day before then you are nice and fresh to get on with things and not miss a day catching up on sleep.
With only 4 of us we each get a quarter of the lake. The only one that could not make his mind up where he wanted to go was Martin so me and him swooped around he had my top end of the lake and i dropped in his.
Time goes so quick and i only had 1 rod out and it was 6.30pm All 3 rods was sent out by baitboat that i had borrowed off a mate of mine Jon.
I was glad to sit down with a brew and something to eat and just watch the water. The weather was a light drizzle with no wind the only movement on the lake was ripples from showing fish perfect.

juvigny 2010 fri 28th may

After leaving Grantham at 4.00am we got to the lake at around 5.00pm with no problems on route things was going great with high spirits and plenty of banter between us all we was finally there. We met Chris and things at the lake was looking good Until we was told that we could not sleep in the the cabin because the guy's that was fishing did not want us to be in there. So with that we all set up camp outside the gates and spent the night there.