Carp Heaven
is a beautiful and very tranquil tree lined lake of almost 15 acres
(6 hectares) located in the Burgundy region of France. It is surrounded
by woods and pastures grazed by the local white charolais cows.
The depth varies from just under 3ft at the shallow end and it gets
deeper towards the dam wall where it has depths of up to 8ft with the
average of about 5ft.
The shallows covers an area of about 4 acres and is an area that the
fish love to sunbathe and feed and has 8 islands and 3 swims.
The main area of the lake has 11 swims, many of which are doubles.
The bottom is a sandy/clay which is quite common with many french lakes
and there is very little weed.
The lake was emptied in November 2006 when virtually 100% of the snags
were removed.
The longest cast required is only about 90 - 100 yd's so rods of 2.75lb
test with fully loaded baitrunners and 2.5oz leads should get you anywhere
on this lake and bait boats are permitted.
At more than 1/4 mile long, new clients pull into the car park and are
delighted to see the lake stretching out before them. There is
a fantastic mixture of wildlife that visits the lake including Deer,
Golden Orielles, Hoopies, Buzzards, Kingfishers, Storks, Egrets, Red
Squirrels, Pine Martins etc,etc.
I cannot stress the difference between Carp Heaven and the other over
commercialized and over hyped french carp fishing holiday lakes.
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