As part of the annual winter chores, adding to and most importantly complimenting the existing stock is an important part of the cycle, as it lake nettings, improvements, tree work, de silting, digging; the list goes on and on. Part of the enjoyment for me is to source and pick a few new fish from different farms to introduce new strains, shapes and scale patterns into the lake, they won't always be huge, but I will have picked them for theor looks and young age meaning they will grow healthy and naturally in Lac Du Coron, not be force fed stock pond fish. We have 30 unique strain fish arriving in a couple of weeks, but ahead of that I visited a local fish farmer called Food & Fish to pick j
With pressure through the roof and freezing cold nghts the lads did really well last week to tempt a couple of real Lac Du Coron stunners. What was most interesting to me was the the long male called 'moonscale' has 100% not been caught before and Matts 28, although it looks like a fish I have seen before has also not been caught before that I know of fish both were up in weight and both in mint condition. The lads had a huge ammount of fish crashing in the area, but apart from savage liners and aborted taked the bobbins stayed still, after a couple of days they decided to put in 3 or 4 kg's of CC Moores Live System and Tuna as well as a good scattering of corn, although it didn't kick off l
Well I have made no secret of it but Lac Du Coron has fished dreadfully for the last 4 or 5 weeks. When you would expect grotty low pressure, winds and rain (perfect fishing conditions) we have stay bone dry and it has gone from 30 degrees to 10 degrees in the space of 10 days with pressure through the roof! So after such a tough few weeks for our anglers I wanted to take the chance to have a go myself. I wanted to try something different, so I laced the silt with 15kg's of Activ 8 and a few kilos of Sweetcorn. Conditions wern't exactly ideal for those tactics but after a few liners I thought I had a chance the following day. After some work around the lake and getting the rods out the Frute
