{"id":27026,"date":"2021-04-23T10:37:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T09:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.anglinglines.com\/?p=27026"},"modified":"2021-04-21T17:03:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T16:03:17","slug":"a-day-of-forties-at-kingfisher-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/a-day-of-forties-at-kingfisher-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Forties at Kingfisher Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/kingfisher-lake\/\" class=\"kblinker\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More about Kingfisher Lake »\">Kingfisher Lake<\/a> owner Matt enjoys his first carp fishing session of the year.<\/strong> <strong>Here’s his update:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been a while!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I like to give my carp a good rest over winter but I hung up my Pike, Zander and Perch rod and decided today was the day to have a little dabble…… and what a start!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had two rods in and had a double run, so had to ask Mrs E to assist with one rod, my first fish fell to double 18mm \u201cSummer Ice\u201d, with a PVA mesh with 8 or 9 freebies. Big Mirror that weighed in at 41lb 8oz.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.anglinglines.com\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175487027_2733973600227497_1675047556426054661_n.jpeg\" alt=\"a big common carp at kingfisher lake\" class=\"wp-image-27027\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175487027_2733973600227497_1675047556426054661_n.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175487027_2733973600227497_1675047556426054661_n-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175487027_2733973600227497_1675047556426054661_n-113x150.jpeg 113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The second fish landed by Mrs E was a lovely Common that weighed 28lb 2oz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spent 10 minutes on my computer checking the 41lb mirror and confirmed that it was NOT \u201cStealth\u201c, who was the current lake record at 43lb.<br><br>This was shortly followed by\u00a0my second 40+, this one tipping the scales at 42lb 8oz. Second fish to be tempted by double 18mm Summer Ice…… positive results with Baitology baits. Again, it wasn’t Stealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.anglinglines.com\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175704615_2734057380219119_2118977864490584249_n-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"carp at kingfisher lake in France\" class=\"wp-image-27028\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175704615_2734057380219119_2118977864490584249_n-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175704615_2734057380219119_2118977864490584249_n-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175704615_2734057380219119_2118977864490584249_n-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175704615_2734057380219119_2118977864490584249_n.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>And finally Stealth makes her first appearance of the year, it\u2019s been approx 5 months since I last saw her, she\u2019s currently 42lb 7oz, so a pound down on last year but she\u2019ll have that back on soon enough….. the big mirrors are obviously on the feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.anglinglines.com\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175665545_2734085060216351_3811881422311305566_n-1024x767.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27029\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175665545_2734085060216351_3811881422311305566_n-1024x767.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175665545_2734085060216351_3811881422311305566_n-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175665545_2734085060216351_3811881422311305566_n-150x112.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175665545_2734085060216351_3811881422311305566_n-768x575.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2021\/04\/175665545_2734085060216351_3811881422311305566_n.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My aim was to have a number of big fish all close enough to keep the lake record changing. There are other 40+ specimens in there including a Grass Carp that went in at 41lb 8oz!<br><br>Blown away by today, everything was perfect.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Set in the north of the Poitou Charentes countryside, Kingfisher Lake offers exclusive use of the 2.1 acre spring-fed lake and a modern well-equipped gite for up to four people. Kingfisher is ideal for families or small groups of anglers that want a relaxing holiday with fishing right on the doorstep.\u00a0<br><br>Find out more about Kingfisher Lake here – <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/venue\/Kingfisher-Lake\">exclusive carp fishing in France with accommodation<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kingfisher Lake owner Matt enjoys his first carp fishing session of the year. Here’s his update: It\u2019s been a while!\u00a0 I like to give my carp a good rest over winter but I hung up my Pike, Zander and Perch rod and decided today was the day to have a little dabble…… and what a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1096],"tags":[1078,1120,1118],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27030,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026\/revisions\/27030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}