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If the owner says it hasn't been fished for 40 years then you had not done your homework as there are catch reports from last year on the website along with stocking from 2008 and 2009. This is a commercial water and not some rare find. D minus must try harder next time. You would be very very lucky to find any water that has not been fished for that amount of time, what with gypsy's and locals there are probably no such waters. Don't forget that if people have grown up in the area they all know these waters, even if they do look like no one knows they are there.

Very well done Dave if a little late you will see I was querying coops statement, but its been sorted thanks

Is that right Keith you have only had approx 400 fish out this year. As Coops says over 1 in 4 being over 40lb and you've had 100 forties out to 200 anglers. That equates to just over 400 and only an average of 2 fish per angler?

Hi David I do tend to agree with you I posted on here a little while back that if you have to keep pushing your lake then you cant be that busy. There are some lakes on another forum that seem to have thousands of threads and posts, yet if anyone asks if someone can suggest a place to go the owners of said lakes come on and say we have space. I would have thought a decent lake would not have to keep pushing itself surely the fish and the service do the talking. I did get slated a little while back on the same subject but still maintain that until it was sold recently Maison de Lac Bleu did not sell itself on every forum nationwide it sold itself on what it had by word of mouth. Its the only way forward if your any good people will know about you the carp fishing fraternity has good jungle drums