The perfect week sandwiched between a catalogue of horrors

To cut a long story short , the trip started with a horrendous journey to Dover which took 7 hours due to the obligatory road closures . Then a near death experience with a stray wheel from an articulated lorry bouncing down the carriageway at us only an hour into the drive french side . To cap it all a car that decides to go into limp mode on the morning of departure starting a nightmare experience with the recovery company which finally ended with mum and myself flying home 4 days late and leaving the car and all the gear behind. Sandwiched in between was the perfect week .

16 fish between us , a mixture of mirrors , commons and leathers ranging from scraper 20 s to the majestic Ronnie at a new top weight of 50lb 8 oz. We managed to bank fish that hadn’t been seen for a few years that had piled on the weight , which was so pleasing to see . All the hard work that John and Jan have put in over the last 8 years is really starting to bare fruit .

Brutus at 36

low 20 leather

Mid 20 common

Maximus at 29

Big Dave at 33

30 lb long mirror

Scraper 20

Mid 20

Mid 20

Scraper 20

Upper 20

Hilda at 30

Pennyscale just under the magical 50

The Pope at 44

Ronnie at 50 lb 8 oz

Scraper 20

all the fish falling to either two popped up corn toppers or a snowman set up fished over a bed of the lakes particle mix, crushed and whole carp Pb boilies rolled for the lake, pellet and corn . A rod in the moat produced a fish every 2 days whilst the usual margin spots produced the rest . Fantastic week .