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Archive - AUGUST 2016

The Return To One Lake

Posted: 1st Aug 2016

It's been a busy few weeks and the title of the blog will be explained. The 15 acre lake is still in full swing.....all the paths and pegs are now roughly marked out with thousand of tonnes of earth being used to raise the path way along the full length of the lake which is half a mile long!!! Early in the season and when the lake is full it can be very damp so the plan was to raise the main access paths to keep access clean, dry and functional for th…

41 Species!

Posted: 7th Aug 2016

At last we have had a change in the weather with a heavy short downpour on Thursday this week signaling the first of any rain for 8 weeks! We had a mixed group this week making the lake booking, with Mick, Paul & Steve opting for swims 1,3,5.....followed by Julian dropping into 4 to accomodate his marquee arrangements for himself and Sally his wife, but I honestly think it was for all his tackle and BBQ equipment!. We also had young Finn…

Moonshine Boys!

Posted: 14th Aug 2016

Another week comes to a close and we had 4 chaps fishing this week who came way back in 2008....so it was interesting to hear how much the fishery had changed and progressed overtime and they thought it had matured massively and looked bigger than they remember!! Now I'm sure they won't mind me saying that they look to enjoy all aspects of their holiday and its not just a tick-list regarding numbers of fish that count. They did mention a couple of pbs…

Bright As A Button!

Posted: 23rd Aug 2016

Just catching up with the update from last week and it has been very up & down. I think despite the second heatwave this year with temps soaring up to 37oc the lads fished the lake with 100% effort, but conditions being so hard make it very hit and miss. Just to give you some idea we are now into our 10th week with only 5 mm of rain falling and the French news reported this week its been the driest/warmest July for 35 years.....despite this I have…