Well what a week!

The severe gales hit us on Monday much like most of the South coast of the UK,  and with them bought yet more torrential rain.

Iain returned  home from the UK on Wednesday with the car loaded with our bait for this season but there
was no time to put his feet up and we set about clearing branches that had blown off and generally clearing up after the gales.

Good news is that the almost horizontal tree in the corner which provided the snags when fishing
from Blue Camp has now been cut back so there are now no branches in the water.  The rushes and reeds have started growing in the margins and the first lot of trees have broken into leaf.  We can now believe that spring is ALMOST here.

While working around the lake yesterday we walked around the dam corner by the gate towards Goffees

we saw the most spectacular sight & to say we were both gobsmacked is an understatement

A catfish was in the shallow water head toward the bank with a handful of small fish that it had

herded into the corner.

The whole back of the catfish was visible and it was absolutely massive…. gobsmackingingly massive

at over 6 ft long!!!!!!!!!!!!

We both looked at each other, mouths open…… Iain muttering……. ‘We need a bigger catfish sling….’