Well I was lucky enough to have had 2 weeks in France but could not have picked a worse year for selecting two early trips. When we got to Jo Jo's it was very much in the grip of winter and continuing frosts did not help . Landing 3 fish to 38lbs on the first day with the A Plex was a great start but the trip went down hill from there although Steve did pretty well and Malc had a 46-08 PB on the A1.
Arriving at Boux it looked like more of the same and the north wind cut into us for the entire trip. Steve chose the deep water and by Tuesday it had proved to be a great decision as he had caught about 20 fish to 39lbs and all I had to show for it was a small koi and a couple of twenties. All the fish were being pushed into a small corner of the dam, in fact the deepest part of the lake. Tuesday morning I packed the boat with a couple of rods to do some pva bagging from the dam wall and things really turned around. I was rationed to 3 hours fishing by Steve,lol, but had blind eye within half an hour. Down in weight like all the fish he went 44-10. Five minutes later he was joined by a 42-10 and then the leather at 40-06, not bad for a couple of hours. I had taken the plum zing with me as it was the only bait I had left as the orders had been so busy before I left. My next fish was a common of 41-o8 which was the only fish to come from summer bay all week. Steve charitably let me have a rod to the left of his which at least kept me ticking over with the odd fish as they continued to show over the deep water. I only saw four fish show in the shallows all week. My deepest spot of nine feet did produce every night though about midnight.
I ended the week with 25 fish and also had fish of 45-02, 43-00, 37-10, 38-08 and 37-13. The amazing thing was that I had nothing between 27lbs and 37lbs as Steve had 30 fish in this range.
6 forties in a week has to be classed as a great week when the fishing is difficult but as Steve puts it struggling is the new bagging up!
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