Sep 2011

Three 40lb+ Cats out in a Week!, 15th Sep

Colin (Cat-Man-Doo) Marsh of the Wilkinson Party has landed 3 large Catfish from our lake this week after expressing a desire to bank one of the elusive big ones when he first arrived here Saturday.

The first Cat came on a Tench live bait at 2 am on his first night here and weighed in at 45lb 8oz, the second Moggie picked up a Mainline boilie fished for a Carp the same morning at 11 am and came in at 48lb 8oz. We were fortunate enough to see Colin land the third Cat as we were delivering breakfasts to the anglers on Thursday morning when his left rod tore off.

The hard fighting 49lb 8oz Moggie decided to pick up a mainline boilie fished to the Gorse bank, this was on his only rod with a reel spooled up with 12lb breaking strain line, the other two have 15lb BS on them so it was a pleasure to watch him play it in so skillfully.

Another Catfish was hooked earlier in the week but was lost as Colin’s mainline broke under the strain; we suspect this one was bigger. Colin has now got the bit between his teeth and wants to see the biggest one in his net before the end of the week, we estimate it to be at least 60lb as the last time it was seen was around 2 years ago when it was landed at 53lb.

Great angling Colin, Keep it up!

Sep 2011

Lake Record Piggy!! (It had to be done), 8th Sep

Gary Sawyer of Bivvy Power has won himself the newly invented 'Lake Record Piggy' award by netting the Lake record Pig at 12lb, the pig put up a brave fight (well in the net anyway) and was caught in the Gate corner at 10pm on Thursday the 8th of September, it was skillfully captured with no bait at all! Well done Gary.

I think this is one record which will be very long standing!!!

Sep 2011

The Funniest Thing I Ever Saw at our Lakes!, 1st Sep

Ben Young and Gary Sawyer of 'Bivvy Power' are fishing here this week at La Gléhias with Gary’s mum and dad Al and Lynn. On Thursday evening I went down to the Lakes for a chat with Ben and Gary, about an hour later it was just getting dark when we saw what looked like a large white cat come in through the fishery gate and run along the dam wall bank which was about 80 meters from us.

Only when we stopped talking did we realise the large white cat was in fact pink and making a snorting noise! I immediately ran to the dam wall to investigate further and the baby pig turned and ran at me, at this point instinct cut in and I ran away from it wailing like a girl while Ben and Gary laughed rather a lot!

It was getting darker and darker as we planned a way to catch it and by now it had run to the Gorse bank on the far side of the lake. We had decided to catch it in a landing net, so I went the long way round the lake and scared it back towards Gary who was hiding in a bush near the gate with landing net to hand, as the piglet ran into the darkness towards the gate all I heard was Gary shout “PIGGY” at the top of his voice as he leapt out of the bush and snagged it in his landing net.

First pig ever netted on our fishery!!!

We managed to get the screaming maniac struggling piglet into an empty dustbin without harming it, put the dustbin in the back of the Land Rover and drove it back to the house and let it go in the goose house for the night. We gave it a while to calm down and then took it some water and cooked maize to see it through to the morning, within ten minutes it was munching through the maize and was completely mellow.

Funny thing, I only said to Al and Lynn two days earlier that I would love to have a pet pig. Unbelievable!!!