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Frank Avezaat.

A rough Dutch season..... (part 2). Jeroen and I started fishing on a nice looking lake in the middle of Holland for a short night session. We caught seven magnificent carps during the night and talked about some other lakes in the country. A few years earlier I started fishing at one of the most difficult pits that I knew. I haven't been there for a while and Jeroen told me he had fished there a couple of times. Dure to his results I decided to give it a second shot. “We caught seven magnificent carps during the night...“ The water is known as "Swanlake", a tiny lake with some great fish. The biggest carp on the lake was known as "the painting". Of all the fish I knew by that time, I realised it was the most precious one. She was looking magnificent with her unique scale pattern. At the time been, she weighed more than 49 lbs! I started fishing the lake in August. It was 02h00 when I arrived at the lake for the first session. Because of the warm weather I decided to throw the right hand rod on a massive bar over forty meters from the bank. The left hand rod was located near the bar. I baited up both swims with a hand of 20mm Tutti Megafish boilies 'cause of there great smell.At 9 am the left hand rod was on. After a stunning fight I landed a nice looking common and I pulled her up the bank. Dure to a little hole in her fin I recognised her as thirty. She weighed 35lb and 5oz. What a great start! I called Bob for some pictures and he arrived almost half an hour later. As he walked towards me I received another take on the left hand rod. I took the rod and bend it over the shoulder. I guess it wasn't supposed to be, 'cause I lost the fish when it was swimming behind the bar. Bob shot some pictures and went home. A couple of minutes later I did the same. “Dure to a little hole in her fin I recognised her as thirty...“ After work I drove to the lake and decided to try it for another night. I took place at the same swim and hit the sack. At 9.30 am I woke up and heard an annoying buzzing sound at the swim. I was on! It was again the left hand rod with the 20mm Tutti Megafish which was located at the right place. During the fight I saw some other anglers walking to my swim. One of them landed the fish for me and together we weighed her at 31 lb and 9oz. It was hard to believe that I received three takes in almost 20 hours of angling on this lake. I never caught two thirty's in a row and I think you'll understand how I was feeling at that moment. “Dure I woke up and heard an annoying buzzing sound at the swim...“ After the first twenty hours I fished some hundred hours without catching any carp. Unfortunately I messed up two takes in September and one of them was a biggy! It was not until the end of October when I first received some action on the lake. It rained all day and I decided to fish a different swim at the parking lot. After half an hour I heard a bleep coming from the optonics. I went down for a look and saw a little bit of line action. I waited a couple of seconds and received a second bleeb. I took the rod and was into carp. It took me five minutes before I saw the carp swimming nearby the bank. I wasn't sure but thought I saw a leather. There's only one leather knowned at the lake and she weighted enough to keep me nervous during the play. When I landed the fish I saw that I was wrong. It wasn't the leather but a very good looking mirrorcarp with only a couple of scale's on her body. She weighed 26lb 4oz. Later on I heard that she was only five years old! Two years earlier they put her at the lake at a weight of 8 lb! I guess that all the boilies and other stuff we fed really helped this fish to grow. I could only imagine what she would weight after the next five years! “Later on I heard that she was only five years old!...“ After my third fish I stopped fishing on the lake and I went to some other waters in Holland and France. A week after catching her I was standing at the banks of a massive lake in France. The lake was almost a thousand acres and I caught twentyfive carps during eight days. “One of them was a mirror carp with a beautiful scale pattern...“ One of them was a mirror carp with a beautiful scale pattern. Words couldn't express my feelings while cathing the little painting.   Frank Avezaat The painting died in the summer of 2005. I'm not sure how old she was exactly, but I now quit sure that she was over 40 years old! Her last known capture was on june 13th 2005. She weighed 50lb 6oz.