Opened th'account

Good evening fellow blooggenfiles.

Whilst nursing a heavy head brought on by Floris the German and his bottle of Scotch, I've at last opened my account with this pretty but slightly lightweight common. Still a Cassien carp but after what is now two weeks fishing, a 20lb common doesn't elevate the session into the successful category but its nice to get off the mark.

The weather since the last post has been a mixture of frosty nights, sunny days, and some that have been constant rain which has helped out the water levels and the lake has risen another four feet in the last five days so that can only be a good situation. The lake has not been prolific but there have been a few small fish plus a 37lb mirror out of the north arm and its been similar in the west arm but a 53lb fish has been landed a couple of days ago. There are four anglers at the end of the south arm and they've had a few fish out with the biggest being a 37lb common out of the shallows yesterday afternoon. All in all, the fish are slowly getting on the feed but sadly they aren't in front of us in any great numbers so at the moment we've been spending a bit of time rowing around various parts of the south arm with the echo sounder so that we can make a better judgement on where to move to in a few days if things don't pick up here.