sierra brava catch report

just got a mail from a friend in spain (gonzalo) and he had 84 fish at the weekend the best where 17kgs 18kgs 20kgs and 21kgs thats 38lbs 40lbs 44lbs and 46lbs in old money. here`s a photo of the 17kgs

does he always fish by the olive trees ?
And is the water way down as they are out of the water ..........
Stunning place can't wait to get back there.

wow.. what a session... great looking specimen !

Do ya know how long he was there ?? 84 fish !!


Atb Val

he told me that it was only a weekend. but i will have to check with it seems a lot for a weekend. his english is very good but he might have made a mistake.
looking at driving down there in nov for a long session. i`d say its about 10 hours from where i`ll be

Nice fish........... .......What size is the water????

http://www.carpfishingireland.com/articles-f21/the-orellana-and-sierra-brava-in-spain-t1715.htm

Cheers Tom...........

stunning carp that

there is a lot of hype / misinformation being touted around about brava and the size of the carp with 1 guiding company

Quote :

4000 carp over 40lb

pure fantasy as no one knows
and the "76lb " has come from 4 different waters so im told and it died shortly afterwards spawnbound

a lot of the spanish anglers in extra just say it was caught in brava or orellana just to keep everyone away from there water and you can't blame them as they are getting well pissed off with the uk anglers blatantly rule breaking ie night fishing and using boats on brava

the size of the lake is 1650h approx 4000acres and is well down at 54% capacity thats why the trees are on view and the fishing has been easy if thats the right word
the level has started to rise over the winter but its still the lowest since built in 96

most of the fishing is casting to the snags with heavy gear and hope you land the carp
there is quite few matches on there at w/e's and a lot of fish are snagged and damaged

Going back in november
Can't wait ..............

dan, me, colin, and tom are taking the the camper down in november for a week or so maybe we could link up?

hope you lads have a good trip
and with a bit of luck the night fishing may well be in place

if your driving down to extra have a look west of Cheles

thats sounds like a plan dave ...but will depend on money . what dates are you going. i think i`m free from the 29th or 30th of oct. i was thinking of going for a bit longer that a week. the lads from passioncarp are on brigueuil at the minute and have told me that they will put us on private strechs that the tour operaters can`t fish. they also told me that the 76 was from orellana and that they don`t trust this angler on his weights

A group of use from caci are gon to the brava and orellana on thur. for 10 days.
Will post how we get on when get back

good look wayne, I hope you will get some nice fish

Stunning place lads enjoy

best of luck lads hopefully ye get among the big uns

the lads have only 5 fish out to date 12lb, 14lb, 15lb, 29lb and youngest member of the group (15) landed a bumper of a fish at 41lb some kick start to his fishing career

a public water 41lbs well done lad, another fish for fish of the month i think

great capture cant wait to see the pics

Brava base camp


Well got back from the brava last night after our 8 day session, It proved to be very difficult as the carp were in spawn mode plus the dam levels have reached records over the winter. So this meant there would be no snag fishing, wat we had to deal with was sharp drop offs and having to cast great distance to reach fish, but a lot of us failled including myself to catch the big numbers of carp and size the brava is known for. I had 2 runs on the last day of fishing because i move to a different area which i should have done earlyer in the week, this resulted in a small double that i taught was atleast 20lb from the fight, gutted i was and never even took a photo of it in disgrace, but should have thinking about it now.
We had very little areas to fish cause of the water levels which meant lots of areas cut off, alot of carp had went to shallow water to spawn water levels again.
Gavin rice and karl rice had got he best swims and they made our trip a
a good one with gavin having ten fish here are some of his fish, our total was 13 fish.
28lb 8oz


29lb 10 oz

30lb 8oz

And the fish of the trip for karl rice
41lb brava common


Well done karl
It was a great experience for me and a good learning cure, and i will be back to this stunning place!
One more pic

well don lads

nice fish lads and well done on the 41lber fish of a lifetime

Wayne made a mistake with the weights of some of the fish.29-8 30-8 and 32-8 were the best of the fish i banked.

yeah well done lads cracking looking fish

Cheers bud a hard session six nights before the first run occoured but rewarding when you have to work hard to get them on the bank.