After an exciting and very rewarding week for Brinn and Lily at Lac Du Coron which included two PB's for Brinn and two for Lily we decided that Brinn and I would spend the last night [Friday] at Lac Solace. I had to be at Lac Du Coron getting the lake ready for our new arrivals early on Saturday and Brinn needed to head for the ferry home, so we kept things light and simple. Brinn choosing to fish the central weedbed from the jetty and me going up to the top corner, hopefully

Lac Solace is a stunning and intimate lake, just under 3 acres in size with a clean, hard bottom, snags, gravel bars and lovely weed beds dotted across the open water.Lac Solace is a stunning and intimate lake, just under 3 acres in size with a clean, hard bottom, snags, gravel bars and lovely weed beds dotted across the open water. Lac Solace is a stunning and intimate lake, just under 3 acres in size with a clean, hard bottom, snags, gravel bars and lovely weed beds dotted

We have venue regulars, Matt, Dan and Adam at Lac Du Coron this week. I had spoken to them many times over the last 12 months about Lac Solace. Pictures of the lake and sneak peeks at some of the lakes residence. So when I offered the lads a chance to fish Solace for 24 hours they jumped at the . After exploring the lake as quickly as possible they dotted themselves around and we all settled down for a chilled evening and hopefully some carp. Not long after, Matt, fishing the

After preparing and serving a great big cottage pie followed by chocolate cake to the lads at Lac Du Coron I quickly washed up, said my goodbyes and good lucks and shot over to Lac Solace for an over nighter. It's fair to say that the evening did not get off to a great start. The boat had blown across the lake, I dropped a bobbin off the jetty into 5ft of water, got a huge birds nest, frapped up up two casts and then stuck one 20ft up a tree. It didn't get any better when at

Stunning, scaly high shouldered fish from an exceptional French water that I have been pestering for a long time! The huge framed and very gutty Hungarian strain that has done so well in Lac du Coron, Carp fishing in France And of course the most recent inhabitants that went in last week that come from a famous but forgotten French water with a very special history. Combined we have an average weight of 35lbs+ already. This has created a stock that I and many others believe i