Our next group were also from Norfolk, they were Billy Ellwood’s group of 7 lads back after a years break. On arriving at the lake after what sounded like a heavy night in our local town celebrating Chris Askew’s birthday, (Chris had the battle scars as a reminder!) all the lads were given bright pink T-shirts by the oldest and loudest member of the group Colin Keeley. These were under no circumstances to be removed until they had caught a carp. Gavin Coe was first to shed his when on the saturday evening he had the first of his 3 fish for the week, a new PB at 36.02, he then beat this with a 44.07 mirror only to beat it again with another PB a lovely looking 46.04 common! Well done Gav, 3 new PB’s in a week can’t be bad…Next to be freed from the shirt was Tommo, who had a 24.06 mirror on Sunday morning, he also 3 other fish at 31.02, 24.06, and 24.03 – No big girls for Tommo but still a good result. Mike Talbot also caught on Sunday morning having a nice 42.04 mirror. As you can imagine the micky taking was getting worse as the day went on as they still had 4 members of the group wearing pink, although Billy Ellwood was next to freed of the rib taking when he had a small but very welcome 21.02 mirror. He also managed another 2 fish during the week, a much bigger 46.07 mirror (which won him the trophy of biggest fish of the week) and a 33.04 mirror.
Colin somehow managed to relieve himself of the T-shirt by having the first of, I believe 4 grass carp!!?? Although on the Wednesday he did catch 3 proper carp, weighing 31.04, 30.02, and 31.04. These were followed by a 32.06 on Friday, and for all his efforts he won the trophy for most fish. Next to catch was the youngest and probably the most sensible member of the group (up until the Thursday morning when I was greeted by hand written placards everywhere praising Paris St Germain’s performance over Chelsea the previous night) Jimmy Ellwood who managed the first of his 3 fish haul on the Monday with a 31.06 mirror, Jimmy then lost 2 fish and landed 2 more on Friday and Saturday at 29.11c and 39.10m. Now they only had 1 member of the group in pink, Chris who despite trying 3 different swims during the week managed a last gasp 20lber to save himself the embarrassment of having to wear the shirt home on the ferry! It wasn’t destined to be your week Chris after the heavy birthday night you had, I’m sure you will fair a lot better next time. All in all, it was a great week with plenty of banter and mickey taking, and so sorry you couldn’t get on next year, see you all including Colin “hopefully” in 2016.
After the great success of our first season running Moulinots we were ready for the start of our new season. A great deal of hard work had been completed during the winter months, rebuilding and refurbishing the swims on the lake – a massive big thank you to all the lads that helped with the swims and other works – it is greatly appreciated by us both.
Right now down to the fishing, our first week consisted of only 2 anglers who had traveled to us from Norfolk, they were James Lamb and Neal Miller. I thought they might struggle with only 2 of them fishing but they decided to fish near each other on the Social corner/ backside of the lake. Neal was quickly into fish and landed the first carp of the season, a lovely 32.12 linear, and then he then had 3 more fish on Sunday, 26.08m, 29lbc, and a 25.06m. He then managed to beat his previous PB in the early hours of Monday when he landed a lovely looking 48lb Mirror! James also got off the mark when he had a 29.10m on Monday morning, and this was followed early on Tuesday morning by a 36.11m. With the weather turning a lot colder over the night (down to -1/2) the fish seemed to turn off again until the Wednesday afternoon/evening when James had the last of his fish for the week a 24.08 mirror. Neal also caught a mid 20 mirror on the Wednesday. The weather was still cold on the Thursday afternoon and into the night, when Neal managed to break his PB again when he landed an impressive Common weighing 58.15. This is obviously a known fish to us and we are very pleased it came out at its biggest ever weight this early in the season, this could be due to the very mild winter and we hope the majority of our fish will follow suit and be up in weight.. only time will tell!. Neal managed to catch another 3 fish, all mirrors weighing 23lb, 36.12 and 25.06 – well done Neal on your 10 fish haul, a great result!!. The feedback the 2 lads left us re the overhaul to the swims and other work was all positive which makes all the hard work really worthwhile. Look forward to seeing you lads and the rest of your group next year!
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