,Just like to add a big thank you to Iain and Kim for what was a superb week on Rushes. This being my 1st time in france I managed to beat my P.B 3 times while there with the biggest being 30 1/2lb mirror on the last nite. This being followed with a 27 1/2 lb common which turned out to be the last fish before going home. What a way to finish a cracking few days fishing.
Definately looking to
bring a few mates over next year and look forward to meeting you both again.
Also big thank you to Iain for accompanying me to Le Mans A&E to sort out
my finger !! Add to that some
great food by Kim and I could not have imagined the week to be any better.
Also thanks to J.P and Makes for the advice.. Makes your texts were an inspiration.
Thanks to everyone
again...
March 2009
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So I took Nash
Scopex squid + robin red and some Richworth Tutti Frutti. The Nash bait worked
really well but nothing was interested in the tutti frutti. I bought this home
with me! We would have definitely caught a lot more fish , as the weather was
rainy , windy during the first couple of days and then it decided to
go all Mediterranean on us , it was very hot Thursday and Friday, no fish
coming out during the day, as soon as it cooled down , the fish decided they
were hungry. We hardly fished Friday and not on Saturday. Some fish also
spawned in the week.
I ran out of the Nash
bait so bought some from Iain, 5kg of Mega Red, these worked really well.
Over the week I had 38
fish, which included :
2 x 30lbers
20 x 20 lbers
2 x cats , 21 and 14
lb
8 doubles
6 under 10lb
I did not break any
personal bests on this trip, but I did catch my first two catfish , which are
not big by catfish standards but I was still very happy with these. I fished
every night for catfish and had the two fish, both on big 20mm pellets, I tried
a big bunch of worms and liver but these bought me no fish.
My fishing partner
Andy came to France with a PB of 8lb! He has never really fished for carp as
such, he has fished commercial mixed fisheries by float or method feeder in the
past. By the end of the week he had caught quite a few 20’s, a couple of
30’s and a big 47 lb 5 Catfish caught on 2 boilies during the day. He was
delighted as you can imagine.
We really enjoyed our
trip to Rushes , we both took the food package at 100 euros and that was well
worth the money , breakfast bought to your bivvy and a really BIG 2 course meal
in the evening. The food was excellent. I dont eat meat but this was no problem
for Kim.
Kim and Iain
made us feel very welcome from the minute we arrived until we left early
Saturday morning.
I would thoroughly
recommend Rushes its a runs water, with some beautiful fish. Be careful if you
are fishing from Blue camp towards the dam wall as it is snaggy, more so, the
further to the right you fish.
Take your own bait if
you wish but I would definitely use Mega Red as well as it really works.
Thank you Kim and Iain
for a great week,
Jim ( Kestrel )
May 2009
I said to the other 3
i would do the writeup for the week and stick all the pictures up and they can
add there own bits and pieces....
A few people know Me,
Gordon, Neil and Martin were fishing there last week.....We done the Dover to
Calais ferry crossing and arrived at Rushes around midnight Friday night.....Kindly
Kim let us kip in the anglers room and guest room so after a cuppa and some
catching up we got our heads down....
Saturday morning when
we woke up it was raining, cold and the 3 anglers on at the time said it had
gone pretty dead since the rain had kicked in and the wind had turned and was
pushing into the shallows...We agreed that Martin and Neil could have Blue Camp
and me and Gordon would go in Beatties. I agreed to let Gordon have the dam
wall, i couldn't be arsed with the argument fo the dam wall, he had, had a
nightmare the previous time he was at Rushes and i was just up for a few fish,
beer, sun and chilling. Neil started on the dam wall in blue camp with martin
going into open water.
I went out in the boat
on the Saturday and moved the markers to points i wanted them at. I fished one
side of them with the other person in blue camp fishing the other side...We
chose to take Catcherbaits with us.....good prices, nice guy and the fish in
there absoloutely love the stuff. We took 20kg of frosty fruit, 20kg scopex
squid and 10kg of big red to mix things up abit. Over the course of the week by
Wednesday or Thursday me and gordon were out of bait, a quick chat with Iain
and we had another 15kg of scopex and squid going in our side of the lake...the
lads on the other side just lasted with there 25kg.
The weather for the
week was on and off.....bit of rain here and there but alot of sunshine.....i
even managed to burn myself. over the week i reckon between my two markers i
put about 20 - 25kg of boilie....every fish i had was shitting the stuff out so
they were obviously enjoying it and to keep them there i had to keep feeding
them.....Since the netting the fishing has changed massively....this water is
going to be a massive 30s and 40s water the way there putting weight on and the
way they are looking...
The fishing was
awesome....Neil in Blue camp broke his pb 4 times i think, it started off being
22ish and finished being 28ish so he was over the moon, not fogetting he had a
46lb cat which he's still buzzing about....after having a mare last april in
france it was good to see him land alot of fish here. Martin done well, he had
2 30's and none of the 10ish 20's he had were below 25lb.
The food and
hospitality is awesome, Kims cooking is out of this world everything was spot
on. Iains got a lucky charm, every time he came round to our swim our alarms
went....nice bloke and can chat for hours with him..
I wont go on and on,
we all had an awesome week and will all be returning.....i wanted to return
this year but there fully booked so i've got something else sorted...It's one
of them places you just want to keep going back and back....
Biggest mirror for the
week was Gordons 36.12 Mirror from the Damwall.
Biggest common and
biggest surprise was my common at 33.02, I was out in the boat netting a fish
off the dam wall, i unhooked it and released it, as i was coming into our swim
my middle rod belted off, i rowed over grabbed the rod and played it from the
boat.....It just kept going and going. On the bank when Iain said it was 33.02
i didn't believe him, i weighed it myself to make sure they wern't lying
lol.....massive result and best fish i've had from there, it was pristine, Iain
was well impressed with that. The commons seem to like me in France, i had the
big'un from Etang De Brigueuil and then set a new lake record common
here.....pucka
Biggest cat was neils
46.10, great fish and i'm glad he had it, he could have had no carp, banked
that and would have still been over the moon.
Mine and Gordons
pictures have come out wicked, after seeing how his works and the pictures it's
done i know what i'm buying next, after seeing the pictures on my camera and
his there is a difference in the quality....the pictures come out great, apart
from a rubbish bag which we forgot about in nearly every picture which will get
photoshopped out haha.
My results (hopefully
the other 3 will put theres up):
1x small cat
1 x 11lb cat
6 x carp under 10lb.
Sunday: couple of
littleuns and the two cats.
Monday: 17.11 mirror,
11.02 mirror, 20.14 mirror, 23.09 mirror.
Tuesday: 26.01 common,
23.14 mirror, 14.07 common, 25.14 common, 24.02 common, 26.06 mirror.
Wednesday: I had a
dead day....just drank beer and sun bathed.
Thursday: 33.02
common, 28.00 mirror.
Friday: 18.10 mirror,
21.04 mirror, 24.15 mirror.
4 fish between
10-20lb, 10 fish between 20-30lb and 1 30lb fish......between me and Gordon we
reckon we done around 800lb of fish which i thought was pretty good.
Thanks to Frank for
the deal on the bait.....will need to take more next time, luckily Iain had
some in his freezer.....top bait and fish were proper on it.
Dale
April 2009
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