The Stock

The Lac Solace stock has very quickly catapulted the lake into one of the premier small water big fish lakes in France, even we have been surprised just how well these fish are doing!​

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                                                              In 2018 I stocked the lake with 45 special carp from 3 different suppliers. The three                                                                       strains I went with offered the characteristics that I thought would gel together to                                                                           create a very special future for the lake but also fish that would flourish in this                                                                              environment. I am pleased to say that so far even my expectations have been surpassed.

 

​To give you an idea of how well they are doing, one of the strains I introduced

in 2018 were between 12 and 16lbs, all of those fish are now over 40lbs, with several

of them being well over 40, The 30 pounders I put in are all well into the 50's with 5 of

them pushing 60lbs. The 40's I put in are now all over 50lbs, with the long common

going over 62lbs in 2025, there are also 4 or 5 fish fromthat batch between 56-59lbs.

Just as importantly to me there are so many absolute stunners in Lac Solace, it is a

real box of chocolates with so many shapes, sizes and scale patterns. 

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Another exciting thing we have noticed is the Solace homegrowns that are

coming through and bolstering the already impressive stock.

The most famous of those is known as the Doughnut mirror.

During the netting in 2022 I plucked a stunning little 1lbs mirror out of the net,

huge shoulders and covered in scales.

Fast forward 4 years and that little 1lb mirror is now over 30lbs, almost unheard of growth.