During October 2002, November 2004, December 2005 and now again in December 2007 we have emptied the lake in order to control the biomass. We also removed 150 male, feral commons in order to reduce the violence during spawning and allow the large females to spawn without it involving every fish in the lake and without the resulting damage. This has, after each drain down, produced massive weight gains and we expect even better for 2008. With our detailed records following the 2007 vidange, during which we removed 60,000 unwanted small fish of various species, we can accurately forecast the likely spring results for 2008 and we are confident that these will show at least 122 different carp over 30 lb with 35 of them over 40 lb. On top of these we have exactly 50 catfish to well over 100 lb so we expect 2008 to be our best year ever.

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