This year we headed over to Redmill lake in northern France, a beautiful 300 year old estate lake which has a head of 30′s 40′s and even a few 50′s. After me and my mate briggsy had chosen our pegs and settled in for the first night we realised there were some monsters in the lake, as i quote ” it sounded like someone was throwing pigs into the lake” the next morning came with no success, and we realised that there were a large head of catfish, which from that point of me and briggsy changed tactics. I went for the approach of heavily baiting one area and fishing a rod on it which could pick carp and catfish up, when placing the remaining rods around as the carp tend to feed on the outside of the baited area. compared to briggsy who went for a more subtle approach of using the boat to place his rigs under trees and obstructions to where he had seen carp bubbling. As the holiday continued the carp and cats came on to the bank from the both of us, but my tactic had ended up picking up more cats than carp, and visa versa for briggsy. By the end of  the holiday i had 10 cats and 1 carp and briggsy finished on 6 carp and 5 cats, a new pb carp for the both of us, as we both brought a 40lb + on the bank. we were fishing mainly with mainline bolies ( lots of them) with a pellet and particle mix over the top. overall i good weeks fishing and would love to return and give it another stab

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