Twelve Favourites of Christmas – Rich Hughes

Where to start, looking back through 2025 which has been a good year for me on a fishing front especially on limited time.
With several new tickets coming up this year, I’ve been stretched getting around them all but carp caught from everywhere I’ve been lucky enough to wet a line.
Add to this a trip over to France to fish the mighty Lac Du Der for possibly my last session there after 15 years of fishing these beautiful waters. But on route over this time I planned at stopping off at a public water for 3 nights. A water a French friend had put me onto, a water where little to no fishing that had taken place.
What did we know about this water, the honest answer being very little. Being on a hunting estate, a lake of over 100 acres, a lake that’s  been used for shooting only, we were lucky to be offered taster fishing whilst the shooting season was closed, we were privileged to give it a try.
After 2 nights we were lucky to have caught plenty of carp, but nothing of note, all being wild looking commons in the 18lb to 25lb range. Also seeing numerous carp in shallow bays of similar sizes with no signs of anything bigger. It’s great to catch but not what we were hoping for.
The final evening we had resined ourself to accept that all lakes don’t have elusive big carp, but that changed on dark with this mirror of 43lb along with losing one that felt even bigger, how things can change in fishing within a short space of time and now it’s in our thoughts of what could this lake hold ?

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