Bon Noel

Good evening fellow bloggids.

First and foremost we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Myself and Monsieur Jones spent most of the afternoon and evening drinking, eating, more drinking, more eating, and worrying about all the people back in Blighty having to fight their way through the much reported snow drifts and suchlike just to get to a bit of turkey. There were no such obstacles here as the cold snap that was documented in the last post has now subsided with xmas day itself being a day of lovely sunshine with temperatures around 15 c. Its been a similar story since so its all quite comfortable in that respect at the moment.

This is the biggest piece of turkey we could fit in a Coleman oven so in that respect its a fcuk-in big bird.

Not quite on xmas day but at 3 am on the 26th, the largest carp of the session so far picked up the wrong bait and had a visit to the bank.

At 51lb 4oz its a big fish.

I lost a fish the day after from the same spot - it chaffed the hooklink on a snag and Paul had this 17lb fish on the first night in his new swim in the bay so there are a few fish around the general area. We've both done well to get some action as we're not aware of much else coming out of the lake at the moment.

Unfortunately I can't fish at the moment because a reoccurring problem that is known in medical circles as Dodgyious Bastardious Backious and its likely that your average 93 year old could get out of bed and get their shoes on quicker than I could at the moment although I'm hoping to fish the days from tomorrow if things keep improving. Very frustrating when kippers are about I tell thee.

The lake is full to the brim with anglers for the xmas period and its musical swim time. I used to hate that game as a kid and its not much better watching it at Cassien. Two chaps fishing opposite to where we are had moved out this morning at 10 am and by 10-15 am there were three other anglers moved in, its crazy really but with probably one hundred carpers here it'll be the same for the next week or so but should then return to some sort of normality.

Levels

The levels at this place are up and down like a fiddler's elbow. After the lake rising quickly because of two days of heavy rain before xmas, forcing Paul into moving swims, the lake has now dropped 3 feet in a very short space of time although there is more rain forecast later this week so hopefully it won't be going down much further. Its hard to tell what will happen next here because if the turbines for the hydro electric dam are put into use then the water can go down a few feet in one night.

See you soon