Colin Meneaud’s Fishing Diary - Mirror Carp Fishing at Sweet Chestnut Lake, Saint Saud Lacoussiere (Dordogne, Aquitaine)

Captor’s Comments:

After returning a 29lb Mirror, I threw in some more sweetcorn and went back to the house for 20 minutes to rest the swim. On my return I presented a single grain in the margins and it was taken immediately by something that felt quite a bit larger.

After a more plodding fight than the previous fish a very chunky specimen went in the net and on the scales registered a very pleasing 41lb.

We do not recognise this fish and believe it to be a new '40' for the lake. It had 4 small scales, in a line, on it's tail root.....so we have named it ''Four Scales''

2 Carp for 70lb, on the float in February, in half an hour!!!

The day before I pulled out of a carp that dwarfed both these fish. It came straight to the surface on the strike and must have been 12 inches across the top of it's body. The hook pulled 2 minutes later!

Conditions:

• air temp
  
  8°C
• water temp
  
  6°C
• water depth
  
  5ft
• water clarity
  
  Crystal clear
• wind speed
  
  Fresh Breeze
• wind dir
  
  SW
• weather
  
  Sunny intervals
• air pressure
  
  1007 mbar Rising
• moon phase
  
  Waxing Gibbous Moon