margot

anyone hear anything from the lads?

theve a few 20s 30s and a 44lb mirror. 3 grassies. they said the weather is cold a night and the fishing is slow.

well at least there getting a few runs.

there was a 47 fish out in total 7 anglers 1 blanker which was myself the biggest was a 44lb mirror there was 4 carp 40+ good few 30s n 20s the first 3 to 4 nites were bad frost grassy to 32lb a lot of fish dead around the lake including a 40+ a lot of fish with fungus on them and no sign of the sturgeon. 38 of the fish fell to emerald baits boilies the lads said thanks niall happy out with the boilies:cheers:

Not a bad head count fp.pity you didnt connect though.Must be a sickner to see a 40 floating belly up.Did they put new stock in recently?Cant wait to see the photos,Hope the rest of it went well.

had one run and lost the fish there was 7 fish above the 20lb mark to 40+ and a few smaller ones plus there was hundreds of palm sized in the stock ponds dead and the live ones swimming around had fungus growing on them!! they stocked it on 24 feb this year we were wondering was their a fish kill on it over the winter and was it stocked in feb to boost it back up???????

its a right pain in the swiss putting all that time and money preparing for a big trip and blanking i know four of us went the ebro for a week and had 1 fish:(

Happends to every one FPB I did 2 weeks on cassien with nothing.
Good to hear that ye had some fish though...............

ill put it down to experience tom i tried everything i could think of itll sharpen me up if anything!!!

i had a similarish one last year in England, granted, i had a shite swim, and once i moved i caught, but only 3 fish in the whole week, its kinda disheartening, but once you lick your wounds, and assess what you did wrong, and try to put them things right, then its more valuable then pullign fish after fish

we all love catching, but its like fishing almoyeslton, you wont learn squat, but you`ll catch

thats my positive spin on it anyway

Sorry to hear the weather was against you AND there was an issue with the fish/water. It's a long while since I fished Margot but it is a nice water and I enjoyed fishing it.

I know I won't have to tell you this, but as there is obviously something wrong with the water at the moment could I ask everyone who fished the water last week to make sure everything that came in contact with the water - nets, unhooking mats, weigh slings, boots, even rods/reels/lines/hooklink/leads, are completey dried out, in sunshine, before you use them on any water back here? There's no way of knowing if the fungus is communicable but there's no point risking the health of our waters when there is an easy way to ensure they are completely disinfected.

When we did a trip to their a few years ago there was a good few dead fish floating around also. I do remember a really large Mirror of 40+ also floating in the margin just a long the bank from the cabin towards the stocking ponds.

Any Koi out? It's brilliant to see the 30lbers swimming around the margins near the island. Tom had a White and black one also, pic is in the Gallery. I'm shocked to hear no sturgeon came out unless they've gone to the keepnet in the sky also.

we were thinking the same paul not a sign of them anywhere seen a few koi cruising around alrite one crashed in front of me the last morning a 30+ orange and yellow cracking looking fish!!!!!!!!!
and yes we know the story with the gear have me nets soaking in disinfectant and my rods and that all washed!!! same with the other lads that went