bon voyarge

[slimysime]

Im off lads 1 week in la fritterie, ill keep you up to date if i do catch anything see you all when i get back, 2hrs to go before my pick up

[iberiancarpa]

Bonne chance

[slimysime]

cheers pal

[blanksalot]

Bon voyage, j'espère que vous attraper un morceau ou deux

 

[stoogi]

Have a great time

[snowmanstevo]

Good luck mate

[beza26]

Enjoy mate, hope you have a cracking time Look forward to your write up and pic's when you get back

[plowmanccfc]

Good luck mate have a cracking time

[rosstheangler]

Mange tout rodders

[chris71]

Good luck, look forward to reading about it on your return

[coops_northants]

Good luck fella, hope you have a similar result to your pal earlier in the year. Them chunks should be massive this time of year.....

[slimysime]

Well lads im back home in sunny england we arrived at the lake sataday to find conditions perfect, we wer'nt at the lodge looking out at the lake more than two minutes when a huge lump popped up no more than 40 yards out , well i picked my swim which looked very very carpy, no runs or even liners for two days so after having a walk around the lake and spotted a few huge fish moving about and decided to move, by this time some of the lads were catching every day 40's 50's and tues a 60 came out and i still had'nt caught by thursday i still had'nt caught anything and was considering hanging myself with some 45lb braid from the nearest tree, i decided to go for a little mooch receiver in hand to see if i could spot one amongst the snags when my left rod screemed off, 10 minutes later a 32lb mirror was on the bank finally i could relax, the lads did the vids/photos and doused my with bucket of water, nothing came out friday but sataday morning 3 hours before i was due to go my middle rod which had been out without moving it for two days over a baited spot on a cell pop up screemed off, after a huge battle in the dark imanaged to slip the net under a fish, after taking out the hook and making it safe i still did'nt know the weight putting her on the scales the reubens wound round to 50,3oz, three hours to go and ive managed to land a 50, oh my god ive hit the 50 club, to say i was happy is a underestatment im still buzzing now, photos will follow cheers lads

[beza26]

Congratultion's mate, look forward to the pics

[snowmanstevo]

Well done mate

[slimysime]

Cheers pal it was well worth the wait im back over next year

[dougmoon]

Well done mate

[slimysime]

Thanks for all of your kind regards gents that trip will be with me always, still cant beleive it all cracked off at the last minute

[lessthanphil]

That's awesome fella! I too landed my first fifty (50lb 7oz) on a French trip last week. I know exactly how you felt, it's quite something!

[slimysime]

Where abouts did you go pal

[lessthanphil]

Etang des deux Pierres in the Champagne region near Vitry le Francois. Was a great venue all 6 of the other guys I was with had a great week too

 

Dont know if it was the same for you (though I think you were in close proximity!) but before we got there it'd been raining solid for about 3/4 weeks. As soon as we got there the sun came out and we had beautiful weather for 90% of the time we were there.

[slimysime]

I think that lake was right next to us my freind, we were at la fritterie

[lessthanphil]

Yep, just looked at the directions to la fritterie - You can't have been much more than 10 minutes away, if that!

[slimysime]

Couple of days while there pal hit mid 20's, feet in the lake drinking cold beer and steak baguettes but oh my god the frogs at night drove me mad, along with the mozzies and if your listening coops the ants you warned me about earlier they are evil things, but all in all a great experience one i shall never forget

[lessthanphil]

Yep! We had those frogs too, they sounded like Predator from the movies going all night! I also made the mistake of turning a white headlamp on at night the day the mozzies appeared in droves, think my face was covered by the things within about 5 seconds!

 

I'm almost certain we returned with about 30'000 of those ants in our rod bags and kit as well

[slimysime]

Yep! We had those frogs too, they sounded like Predator from the movies going all night! I also made the mistake of turning a white headlamp on at night the day the mozzies appeared in droves, think my face was covered by the things within about 5 seconds!

 

I'm almost certain we returned with about 30'000 of those ants in our rod bags and kit as well

i set my bivvy under a weeping willow and all night i had it dripping on my bivvy, frogs croaking, mozzies biteing, it almost pushed me over the top