I hope Keith that as also 1 of the old school and more recognised and established fisheries in France you will respectively respond to this comment and treat it in the context that it is presented. I have been reading your comments on this and other forums over the past 3 months and these days I choose or am forced not to reply (on 1 forum anyway), on this occasion and forum that I am invited to post, I am really interested in why you have again mentioned you are trying to remove fish to improve the biomass? Yes I and most other fishery operators know that a lake will only support so many fish and although we would all like to operate a lake full of really big fish, in my opinion if the smaller male fish are removed this can only lead to more fatalities to the larger female fish during the spawning months. I can't exactly remember and quote a comment that you wrote a couple of years ago, though at the time I did think it wasn't a bad idea, sure it was to do with removing the smaller male fish, I never tried to do that, but now I do think that if I had, it would have been a big mistake!! Spawning casualties have been on the increase (in my area) over the last couple of years and that includes my own venue, even though I have never removed any of the carp, perhaps you have carp that breed and the small carp survive, something that doesn't happen here due to the stock of pike, perch, grebes and carp eating their offspring. I do not profess to be an expert as a fishery manager, just 1 of the fortunate few to be doing it, so I am really interested in more info? We haven't always seen eye to eye, but on this occasion perhaps an informative conversation would be useful.