Its Gone Cold.

Good evening fellow bloggites.

As you can see, I've got the snood on, and as the reason being isn't that I'm trying to hide from the wild boar that are in my swim every night, it would be a fair statement to say its gone cold, both in the climatic sense of the word and metaphorically speaking. Most nights are into minus figures down to -6, the daytime temperature has dropped 3 or 4 degrees, as has the water temperature and the fish are doing their level best to make us out to be fools. This may be the case of course, because our seemingly well thought out plan of sitting it out for a big 'un in what is historically a known big fish area is not paying any dividends as yet, although one big fish will obviously put a different complexion on matters and I suppose the eleven nights that we've spent in the area isn't a vast amount of time but things are very quiet. Marcus Lamprecht has been down in the next swim along for a few nights and not had any joy so he's gone to fish the west arm and even Steve Briggs is struggling up at the other end of the south arm, and between them they've got forty or more years experience of fishing here so it shows how tricky it is at the moment. We shall spend another few days here though before making a decision on things because the busy period will be on us soon and if we are moving then it will be before Christmas.

As far as captures around the lake go there are a few small fish coming out of the north and west arms although we haven't heard of anything decent for a while, but as always this doesn't mean that there hasn't been, but its a fair assumption. All in all, apart from the Poison Dwarf snapping a rod, my boat getting a puncture and the half broken oarlock finally breaking its been

an uneventful week.

Levels

The great lake has continued to reclaim its banks and at the moment is only a few feet off being at full capacity, and although the forecast rains never materialised right above us we could see them to the north and these have added to the amount of water coming in here this last few days.

See you soon

Winter at St Cassien

Jones and Lucas are spending this winter at one of the greatest carp lakes there has been - Lac de St Cassien. Between us we've amassed over twenty years of non commercial carping experience in France alone, this includes sessions that have lasted six months and other countries include Holland, Belgium and of course England. Through this blog we'll be sharing the ins, the outs, and the general ups and downs of long session fishing.

Our session starts in November lasting three to four months at Cassien, and as with the rest of our fishing, this will be done without the help of sponsorship from tackle manufacturers and bait companies.

First post will be up early November.