2010 News - Etang des Deux Pierres

21st - 28th August 69 carp landed

This week 69 carp were landed. The Grandstand again fished well with Mel taking 16 fish, "Pierres 1" produced 14 for Dave, "Pierres 2" 12 for Richard. William fished The Lonely with expectant wife Cindy (4 weeks to go) for 6 fish. Big Chris and Richard (another one) shared The Beach with Richard taking 5 and Chris 7 plus the sturgeon twice!! Mark fished with Vikki in Mid-Drive and had 5 (all PB's), while John with Rachel took 4 from The Dug Out. Pics to follow.

14th - 21st August 99 carp to 44-6

Another good week with 99 carp landed. Mid-Drive produced 27 fish for Gavin, Kev took 23 from The Grandstand including 40's of 42-4 and 44-6, young Callum and Dad Chris shared The Beach for 18 with Callum again taking the lions share as he did last year. Patrick took 12 from The Lonely including a 41 grassy. Paul and Luke shared Marcelle's for 11 while the normally productive "Pierres 1" and "Pierres 2" produced only 3 for Dave and 5 for Ben.

7th - 14th August 138 fish to 48-09 including 41-12 grassy

A great week here at "Deux Pierres" saw 132 carp landed to 48-8 plus 6 grassys to 41-12. The Beach produced 36 for Keith helped by Mick and young Alfie including mirrors to 48-8 and grassys to 41-12. The other Keith took 30 from The Lonely, John in The Grandstand had 31 including a PB 45-4, Steve in "Pierre 1" managed 28 while Tony and Elaine had 8 to 40-11 and Chris in Mid-Drive had a frustrating 5.

24th July - 7th August Holiday Time 82 carp, 4 cats and The Sturgeon Four Times

It has been holiday fortnight here at "Deux Pierres" with Graham and Lilly taking a well earned break in sunny Majorca. As usual we left the lake in the capable hands of good friends who managed to catch 90 fish between them. The Highlight had to be all 3 cat fish getting caught in 24 hours as follows, Ann having Flip Flop at 106lb, Matt with the middle one "Ezzy" at 125lb and Mac having the big one "Jimmy" at 136lb (he even caught it a week later at 137lb on one of his carp rods). Thanks for taking care of things. See you next year.

17th - 24th July 31 carp averaging 29-8lb for 3 anglers

This week saw just 3 anglers with lake booked for themselves and it made sense to go to "Pierres 1" and "2" and The Lonely for a nice sociable week (I should know, I took away the empties!!) for Nick in "Pierres 1" with 8 fish best a 38 common, Mike in "Pierres 2" for 13 to 38lb including 10x30's and Mick in The Lonely who had 10 to 42lb. Sunday,Monday and Tuesday being unbearably HOT (pushing 40c) a good result with a good average weight after all the spawning activity of the previous weeks. A thoroughably enjoyable week had by all.

10th - 17th July - STILL VERY HOT 72 carp caught inlcuding 4 x 40's to 47-08

It's still blistering hot here in th Champagne region but the 8 anglers this week done well with lots of PBs being broken. Steve with Lynda fished in The Grandstand for 14 carp to 47-8, Jay in "Pierres 2" had 20 to a grass carp of 43-12, Bubbles in "Pierres 1" had 9 to 37, Paul with Dalene in Marcelle's took 10 to 37-12 while Glen with Faye in Lilly's had 6 to 41-11. Tony and Fiona fished The Beach taking 10 between them to 44-1 common while poor old Mark just couldn't get amongst them and lost loads but landed 4 from Mid-Drive then Buzzard Corner. Graham and Jane would like to say a special thank you to everyone for helping clear up after the two very violent thunderstorms this week.

3rd - 10th July VERY HOT 38 carp to 48-7

Another very hot and sticky week with the carp not really very interested in anything. However 38 carp were caught including 10 from Marcelle's and 8 from Lilly's while Papa Smurf took 6 from The Grandstand to 48-7. The rest being spread around the lake.

26th June - 3rd July A RECORD WEEK (the worst ever). More spawning and temperatures 35+

With the fish still spawning on and off and temperatures soaring to 40 degrees it was never going to be a good week especially with England going out to Germany in The World Cup!! It certainly was not a good week with 6 anglers who booked the whole lake, managed to catch 12 fish, 6 carp, 4 grass carp, the Sturgeon twice but all went home happy and with a jolly good sun tan.

19th - 26th June 64 carp to 48-12 mirror

With the fish yet again in spawning mood the 8 anglers done well again this week taking 64 carp to 48-12. Daniel (Son of Dirt) proved again he knows how to fish The Beach taking 19 fish to 40-2 common and a 37-2 grassy (snitch). Wrighty fished Marcelle's for 12 to 38-12 common. Team Grandad fished "Pierre 1" and "Pierre 2" taking 15 between them with Liam just pipping Grandad Kiwi 8 - 7 including PBs mirror, common and grassy at 33-8, 31-3 and 35-0 respectively. Newcomers to "Deux Pierres" Nigel, Richie and Lee fished Buzzard Corner, Grandstand and The Dug Out with 1 fish for Nigel at 25-8 in The Dug Out , 4 for Richie to 33-6 mirror plus a 38-10 grassy from Buzzard Corner and 7 for Lee to a cracking 48-12 mirror from The Grandstand. Mick fished in Mid-Drive for 6 to 34-2 mirror and a grassy at 31-12.

12th - 19th June. 54 fish to 47-2

What seemed like a very slow week turned out to be "not too bad" this week with 54 fish landed. John on The Beach took 11 to 43-8, Matthew had 6 including a 36-12 grass carp, Ashley in Buzzard Corner had 11, Paul in "Pierres 2" took 8 including a cracking 47-2 ten minutes before winding in on Saturday morning. Terry had 4 from The Lonely, Andy had 4 from "Pierre 1", while Robert & Dawn took 10 from Marcelle's.

5th June - 12th June. 119 carp including 6 x 40's to 48-7

The lake continued to fish well this week with Mid-Drive producing 38 carp to 41-4 for Paul. Husband and wife team Mick and Pam helped along by 10 year old Grandson Kaine shared The Beach for 27 carp including a 43 common for Pam and a 40-4 mirror for Mick. Trevor in "Pierre 1" had 12 to 36-8, Glen in "Pierre 2" had 11 to 48-7 mirror. Larry took 12 from The Lonely including 40's of 42-12 and 41-7. Lee fished The Grandstand and then Lilly's for 12 while Buzzard Corner produced 7 for John. Despite the fish being well spawned out, once again more 40's were caught than doubles!! This has been the case every week this year so far.

29th May - 5th June. 140 fish to 135lb. 128 carp to 48-12. 8 mid-thirty grassys to 37-12. Two cats of 135lb and 123lb plus "The Sturgeon" (again) twice.

Buzzard Corner did the business this week for Chris with 35 fish including his first ever cat at 135lb, new lake record, plus his second ever cat at 123lbs, we were all hoping for a full house of cats but as they say 2 out of 3 aint bad. Phil in Mid-Drive had 26 to a PB of 46lb. Martin and Tim shared the beach for 25 fish including grassys of 33-12, 35-2, 36, 36-2 and 37-12!! Adrian in The Lonely took 24. Koos in "Pierre 1" had 18, Denny in "Pierre 2" managed 14 while Ian waited in Marcelle's and was rewarded with a PB of 48-12.

22nd May - 29th May. Fish still spawning. 25 carp, 4 grass carp, Flip Flop "The Cat" weighing in at 95+ and Sam "The Sturgeon" caught twice.

The fish carried on spawning till Wednesday this week and consequently the catch rate suffered but everybody caught. Big Dave fished in Buzzard Corner and remained fishless until Friday morning then caught 6 carp in one day. Little Dave fished in Marcelle's and had Sam "The Sturgeon" twice, what a lovely catch, he also had what can only be "Flip Flop" at 95+ with 3 carp. Graham (not Dirt or Dave or Dave, thank you) on The Beach had 3 grass carp of 37-12, 34 and 30-12 plus 3 carp. Neil had 4 in Mid-Drive, Paul 3 in The Lonely, Steve 3 in "Pierre 2", Stewart 3 in "Pierre 1" plus a 26 grass and Brian in The Dug Out saved the blank by taking 1 carp on Thursday morning.

15th May - 22nd May. Spawning started Wednesday night. 68 carp to 47. 3 x 40's plus 27 x 30's to 39-12. 3 grass carp to 39

The reliable "Lonely" produced 20 carp with 7 x 30's this week for Neil. Rob in "Pierres One" had 13 to 47 with 8 x 30's to 39-12 plus 2 grass carp to 39. Baz on The Beach had 16 to 41-4 plus a 32 grassy, Chay in Buzzard Corner had 8 to 33-8 common, Ian in The Grandstand had 7 to 40-2 and Martin fishing in Mid-Drive had 4 to 34-8. All this before the carp started spawning on Wednesday night.

8th May - 15th May 99 carp including 14 x 40's and a 51-2. Plus 6 x grassys to 39-12. 82 year old Grandad lands 3 x 40's to 46-8 on The Beach

This week saw 82 year old G'Dad along with Son Mick and Grandson Mark end up sharing a 37 fish haul which included 7 x 40's to 46-8 mainly from The Beach. Dean in "Pierre 1" took 31 fish including mirrors of 45-6 and 40-12 plus grassys of 36-4 and 35. Steve in The Lonely had a cracking session which saw him take 3 PBS of 45lb mirror, 40-8 common and a 39-12 grassy in his catch of 18 fish. Mick in "Pierre 2" had 13 including mirrors of 51-2, 42-1 and 40-2 plus 3 x 30lb grassys. Pete in The Grandstand took 4 to 38lb while Steve had 3 in Buzzard Corner also to 38lb.

1st May - 8th May - NEW LAKE RECORDS 85 carp to 55-1, plus finally our first GRASS CARP at 36lb closely followed by a 43-9 then only TWO HOURS after that a 38-06 from the OTHER END OF THE LAKE. THREE GRASS CARP in a morning after WAITING 3 AND A HALF YEARS FOR ONE - AMAZING!!

Settled weather finally arrived this week in the form of low pressure and things really got going (at least for the first few days till a cold north easterly chilled the water right down again) and 85 carp were landed. Dave fishing in The Lonely had 17 including 9 x 30's to 37+ and Sam the sturgeon. Dave in "Pierres 2" took 15 carp to 55-1 mirror and 40-4 common plus a grass carp (snitch) of 38-06. The Beach produced 13 to 38 common and 6 x 30's to Daniel (son of Dirt). 75 year old Alan fished this time in Buzzard Corner for 12 carp including mirrors of 53-14 and 45-08 and commons to 37-14. Graham (no not Dirt) fished in Marcelle's on his first visit to "Deux Pierres" and took 10 to 37 while his mate Ben fished Lillys and won himself the free holiday that we have always promised to the captor of the first grassy as well as the grassys of 36 and 43-9 Ben had mirrors to 37-4. Dave fishing in "Pierres 1" had 10 mirrors to 45-12 plus a 115lb catfish on Friday night (Ezzy) while Dave in The Dug Out went for quality rather than quantity and took mirrors of 45-8, 44-2 and 35 plus a 28-8 common......... WELL DONE GUYS!!!!

24th April - 1st May 29 carp to 37-8

Another relatively slow week with high pressure and temperatures pushing 30 degrees coupled with the fish spawning. However all anglers caught from all areas of the lake with Steve taking 5 30's to 37lb from The Lonley, Adam 4 from "Pierre 1" including a 37-8 common (the bullet hole common) at 9.30 Saturday morning while packing up. Richard in Buzzard Corner had 4 to 37lb, Kevin in "Pierre 2" took 3 to 36-8lb, Josh in The Grandstand 3 to 36lb, Dicky & Son Ben shared the runs in Marcelles and took 4 to 32lb. This week also saw the return of Grahams old chum Murree (The Mad Scientist) who brought along with him another childhood friend Robert whom Graham has not seen for 35 years so while Murree developed his skills at catching carp using water snails (whilst writing a thesis on them) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Graham and Robert had a jolly good try at breaking the lake record consumption of red wine over the course of the week. Murree and Robert managed 5 to 36lb from The Beach. How great to see you all again.

17th April - 24th April 4 anglers 23 carp to 43-5

Red hot days and frosts at night saw the water temperature varying by as much as 6 degrees from day to night which didn't do a lot for the fishing but Tim fishing in The Beach ended the week with 9 carp to 41-2 plus the sturgeon. Rob fished The Lonely and Buzzard Cornder for 6 fish to 43-5. Rory fished "Pierre 2" and Buzzard Corner for 6 including commons of 33 and 32-6 while Adrian took a 29 from The Grandstand and a 38-15 from Buzzard. The previous week the fish did not want to visit Buzzard Corner and this week finished with 3 anglers fishing in there on Friday night with one rod each after steadily sneaking the fish out through the week. Just goes to show no two weeks are the same!!

10th April - 17th April 64 carp to 46-4 including 6 PB's

This week saw 6 out of 8 anglers take PB's. "Pierre 2" continued its good form for Bill who took 14 carp including a 44-6 mirror caught within 30 minutes of arriving in his swim and a 41-14 common. Matt in The Lonely had 12 to 34-10, Steve in Mid-Drive had 10 including a 35-12 common. Mick fished "Pierre 1" for 10 fish, mirrors of 46-4, 38-10, 37-2, 37, 35-2, 32, 29-6, 28-4, 27-14 plus a 38 common. Rob took 7 from The Grandstand to 37-2, Terry in Lilly's had 5 including a 43-10 mirror on Friday night. The Beach which seems a bit out of sorts lately produced 4 to 27 for Stuart while Jim in Buzzard Corner took a 32 and a 28-10 from "the bush that never produces".

3rd April - 10th April 41 carp to 48 common plus a 95 cat

Two very sharp frosts meant a slow start this week but it picked up a bit with Kieran in Mid-Drive taking 12 carp to 37lb. Aaron in The Lonely had 10 including 2 x 39's and a PB 48lb common. Craig in "Pierre 1" took 11 to 42lb, Chris in "Pierre 2" had 4 carp plus a 95lb cat fish, while Tony and Andy fished in The Beach for 4 carp.

27th March - 3rd April 69 carp to 53-6 lake record

"Pierres 2" done the business this week for Mike who had 24 carp including a new lake record and PB of 53-6. Flawrence took a PB of 45-2 in his 13 fish catch from Mid-Drive, Mike Junior had 11 from The Lonely, husband and wife regulars Mac and Ann had 19 from Lilly's and Marcelle's with Ann just pipping Mac with 10 fish, although Mac did have the biggest at 40-3. Pat who chilled out in The Beach like he normally does, even managed 2 to 38-8 when he decided to put his rods out!!

20th March - 27th March 38 carp to 49-5 common

This week saw Don and Sean sharing The Beach for 9 fish with Don's best being a 49-5 common and Sean's best a 40-8 mirror. Rob in "Pierres 2" had 10, Richie in "Pierres 1" had 6 to 39-12 while Dean fished The Lonely for 5 including mirrors of 41-6 and 43lb, another Dean took 4 from Marcelle's while Bob had 4 from The Granstand.

20th February - 20th March 84 carp to 53lbs

It has been the time of year for work parties and socials plus even some fishing! In what have been some of the coldest conditions imagineable plus what can only be described as a hurricane, 90 mph winds. The lake freezing and thawing regularly, 84 carp were landed including a 53 to Daniel Wall who seems to have a knack of getting amongst the bigger fish. Top catches for numbers are shared by Trevor who fished 27th February - 6th March for 18 fish to 41-7 and Mick who fished 13th - 20th March for 18 fish to 41-8 including 10 x 30's to 39-4. Not too bad considering the lake was frozen the morning he arrived! 5 members of the UK CARP CREW joined us and experienced the "hurricane". See their forum at www.ukcarpcrew.co.uk . The first 40 of the year was taken by Chris at 40-8 on 24th February. Well done to all and what a good time we had. Graham and Jane would also like to say a special thank you to Andy and Kelvin for all their hard work.