Carp fishing with Hortonfishing.com: 05/2010

Monday, May 31, 2010

A 31lb mirror just caught on Great Lake 31/05/2010

31lb

Flash : Etang de la Botte 31/05/2010

Today on Botte: 57lb sturgeon, 59 fish already!!

2x 40's up 42lb12

12x30's up to 37lb

24 x 20's up 29lb12

all the rest doubles

Flash : Saules on 31/05/2010

On saules today, 18 fish, 1x 47lb, 9x30's up to 39lb5, 8x20's up to 29lb5

Article from Vopi : Graviere de la Traque week 22/05 to 29/05/10

Trouble with my mobile

But now it works fine. Time for a little update, i know... Our party, same as all the years, 3 from switzerland one italien and me & britta had quite a few fish, must be round about 15 together. 3 of them over 20kg, one under 15kg, the rest between 17kg and 19kg+. Me and britta are in peg long haul, this area is overloaded with carps, hundreds! And they are spawning! A lot of weed to the left hand, the whole margin where the fish is sponing cost me some carps, maybe because of barbless hooks. 3 fish came out for me during sponing, one from 14kg and two 18kg+ and a grass carp. Hopefully they end with spawning and turn into feeding.

Heavy Thunderstone

...last night! And the night before no sleep. Lost a few ones, no rods in since yesterday. But we could manage 10 carps from 12kg up to 21kg! Including 3 amur up to 20kg which jumped 4!! Times out of the net, terrible fish. We did'nt take pictures and put these sensible fish asap. Weather changed, cloudy, little bit rain and some degrees colder. The fish stopped spawning. Rods are out now again, see what happens the next hours, days...

Very slow

After the weather has changed and with strong wind, no bleep during the day. In the morning two of my friends had 3 fish. In my peg, long haul 1, i could see many fish just very slow cruising or still standing in the weed at the margins. Britta and me are now in the farest corner, little bit stalking. We saw each day carps in there, realy big lumps and a big big orange koi. Its raining, cold, muddy, sitting under an 15y old leaking aqua brolly, but we are fishing...

Hard work for nothing...

...but thats fishing, you never know. After 5 hours until one o'clock in the night and 5 hours this morning from 5 to 10 stalking the far end of long haul with lots of rain and wind and fuck and shit and ants and everything the result was....i was completly wet and tired, perfect, hard work for nothing. If i think about it now, completly dried since 5 minutes, i asked myself if it is the hot sun or my age which makes me crazy to do such things instead of golfing, surfing or whatever. But who knows, maybe i have to do it and thats fishing, you never know! A fact is, that all (ok, most of them) fish moved to the other end of the lake, so that my friends started to catch. And thats fine, so everyone will catch fish at la traque, realy social. The weather now is a much calmer than this morning, and who knows, maybe there is one big lump left in long hauls area;-) never give up...

Muddy Banks, only trainig...

Low temperature and lots of rain with strong wind from north seems to made my swim empty. At the other end of the lake my mates could bank good fish. I had a few bleeps last night ( no not me, my delks), but only from the lake cleaning patrol, a team of these black/white scuba diving fuc.... Chicks. Realy professionels in diving, also in the dark. But not to forget how to do it, i'lk do some training in the morning. Last day and night is broken... Cross fingers!

New session record !

One of my friends from switzerland starts the session in the first night with a nice 22,5kg mirror. But this session record was broken today from another swiss mate, peter. He had broken his own pb now for the third time this week! He starts with a pb from 18kg, then a new pb from just over 20kg and today a realy nice fat mirror for him, pb broken again, take a seat.......25,2 kg, bingo !! The rest of us at the north had good fish up to 18kg. Me and my italien friend at long haul one and two had only two smaller fish. The weather changed again, rain and coldness in the morning, at midday the wind changed and it is sunny, so maybe sone lumps come back from the north end to mum and dad in the south, fingers crossed. But if not we had a beautyful week at la traque and with the circumstances of spawning and dramatically change of weather, we had quite a lot of fish and big ones! So nothing could get wrong for the last hours. And one thing is fact, we will be back again soon! And of course, because of the homemade lovely pie from pascal, big big thanks to her for the service and everything!

Time to leave little paradise !

And i do not know if i'm happy or not. Maybe not because i could spend two weeks more, no month more at this complex. Would be great, every week a fresh homemade pie from pascal:-) thanks again for everything! the last night was cold and slow, three fish in total, biggest 17kg. But as i wrote before for such unlucky circumstances we did a good job with nearly 60 fish together and big ones! Don't wanna think about it when all plays for you and you know how to do it, i promise that it is possible to catch over 100 carps. So the complex has two regulars more for two times per year, britta and me, definately! But there is one thing that's horrible on the lake we fished and i really didn't like it!! And that is maybe you?! I found a lot of braided mainline under and in the trees at the margins, we caught 4 carps with a hooklink from maybe 80lbs and barbed hooks! Also two of them with one meter of finest thick leadcore leader, that's shit son's, big shit! Be fair to the fish, to the complex and to pascal! Use your brain, not braid to catch carp! Last but not least, like everytime, sorry for my bad german school english and i wish you only the most and big ones!

Catch report Woodslake week 22/05 to 29/05 2010

"Many thanks for your help this week.
Only 2 cats. 20 mirror up to 34lb, 15 commons up to 27lb5, too many grass carp to list but from 30lb - 6lb"
Extract from logbook

Catch report The Great Lake from 22/05/10 to 29/05/2010

"It was a great week on Great lake and we will come back for 2 weeks. Thank you Pascale.
38lb mirror, 34lb mirror, 33lb5 mirror, 1 sturgeon 74lb, 4 carp lost. 2 people"

Extract from logbook

Flash : Graviere de la Traque 31/05/2010

On traque today,32lb mirror,27lb10 grass carp, 29lb1 mirror, 25lb8 common,34lb2 mirror, 21lb8 mirror, 22lb4 common, 27lb8 mirror, 32lb4 mirror, 28l10 mirror, 30lb1 common, 37 lb1 mirror, 18lb20 mirror.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Woodslake : John Stephenson fishing on 24/04/2010

"Hi Sandrine,

Fantastic week on woods lake 24-4-2010 to 1-5-2010. Me, Steve, Bill and Brian :

Catfish to 57lb(brian)

Mandarin catfish to 40lb+ (bill)

Commons to 36l

Mmirrors to34lb+

Sturgeon 16lb (bill)

Loads of grass carp to 20lb and loads of pasties!!

The lads are back in Sept after the big cats!!! All after a PB!! See you soon
More pics from bill and Brian on facebook

The Northern Crew"

John Stephenson

Bill Cowan 30lb+ mirror

Bill Cowan 30lb+ common

Brian releasing a common

John Stephenson and Brian 56lb11 catfish

Brian 23lb10 mirror

Bill Cowan 26lb mirror

Bill Cowan 23lb 23 catfish

Bill Cowan Grassie

Bill Cowan 42lb11 mandarin cat

Bill Cowan 30lb common

John Stephenson

Monday, May 24, 2010

Botte catch report week fishing from 22/05/10

5 people"Lovely week, weather great, had 6x30's and several smaller fish. Shame they decided to spawn. Thanks Pascale"

"16 carp to 32lb,7 catfish up to 54lb12. Weather really hot had a great time. Colin and Joan had a great week except for the weather. 12 fish 1x40lb common,2x30lb,6x20's,2 doubles and a baby catfish. Great. See you next year Pascale.Bopper + Burnys carp c...ren: 29 fish 6x30's to 34lb15, 5 cats to 48lb, 2 sturgeon (ricky twice and lost twice) good week consedering they were spawning when we arrived and weather was poor."
Cross inn carp cru

Extract from logbook

Woodslake : catch report for week from 19/05 to 22/05/2010

2 anglers fishing (only fishing for catfish)

21 cats,

2x100's up to 113lb,

2x90lb up to 94lb,

4x60's up to 68lb8 including 2 mandarins catfish,

2x40's up to 42lb mandarin catfish,

all the rest were 30's and 20's

Graviere de la Traque : Steve Hook from 15/05/2010

6 anglers fishing
14 fish
50lb, 44lb2, 42lb, 40lb, 38lb, 39lb, 30lb, 26lb, 23lb, 32lb, 40lb2, 24lb, 27lb, 39lb
...and a Happy Birthday to Steve

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Barn Owl Lake fishing with Mike, John and Brian from 22/05/10

"Hi Simon and Sandrine

Just wanted to say thanks for a great four days at Barn Owl, brilliant fishing, great food and company. Bryan was over the moon at smashing his PB, as was I with a 40lb sturgeon and another 42lb carp. Johns still talking about his cat. I am now back to reality, noise, pollution and no fishing. Am hoping to do a trip for the cats next year so will be in touch.

Thanks again"

Mike

Fishing is too hard at Barn Owl...Too many fish. Bryan had to go for a siesta

More fish caught since Monday...including a nice 42 lb

Mike

Mike with a 42lb caught this morning 25/05/2010

Mike, John and Brian arrived on Saturday 22/05/10) at Barn Owl for a few days fishing. Things are doing well at the moment with already several nice fish caught.
Here a few photos of their catches caught until today :