Heading South...

Good evening fellow bloggingtons

After spending another few days on what became an island, and no more fish, we've headed a little further south and I'm now fishing La Banane and Paul is on La Pointe au Steph. The swim sketch gives you an idea of whats in front of us, not as deep and all in all its a lot less snaggy than the last area.

Vinnie says carping is boring..

The weather has been settled and sunny, around 15 c most days this week and with the odd bit of decent wind, until last night when we had blizzards to the north and a storm to the west but not much of interest happened right here, although there is some rain forecast in the next few days and we've had a few showers today. The levels on the lake are still rising at a rate of around four inches a day and although we haven't had a period where the level comes up quickly for almost two weeks, we feel that we should now be better placed to take advantage when this sort of situation comes again. It also seems like a good area to stay for a while which may be needed with the predictions of the busy Christmas period when there will be mayhem in some parts of the lake I suppose - our new found German friend Floris caught a 52lb common in the North arm yesterday then four Italian chaps kindly asked him to move on and fish elsewhere. Floris has worked his socks off since arriving ten days ago, fishing five different swims all over the lake and he's had six fish with the 50 common being the biggest and obviously a very big fish, and maybe the Italians will catch a 60, but its a sorry state of affairs and by all accounts, not irregular down at Cassien.

From the reports we've heard the fish that are being caught in the very busy north arm are mainly small with the exception of the 50 common, and the west arm has produced a high 40 and a few small fish. In the south arm the biggest fish we know of this week was caught by Dave the Englishman at 37lb and its got busier as there has been a few anglers moved into the arm in the last few days so in total there are now probably ten or twelve here.

Well thats the state of play at the moment, quiet on the carp front although hopefully that will change with our new surroundings and for now, the expectation is enough.

See you soon