Couple enjoy manic stay at French holiday resort.
Simon and Donna Mercer from Salisbury have enjoyed a manic week at Moulin De Graf Fishery in France, banking 22 giant carp during their 36-hour stay.

On arrival, Simon spent plenty of time looking around the lake and studying the fish activity before deciding to fish two different swims. He chose to fish in a deepwater swim known as 'Twin Oaks’ for his morning and evening sessions and to fish a shallower swim called ‘The Meadow’ for his afternoons, when he hoped that the fish would have moved into the shallow water.

Simon kept both swims baited all week but only fished each one for a few hours at a time, giving him a total of 36 hours fishing. When he was on the lake he was 100 per cent focused on the business of catching fish. He would study every swirl and sign of fish, every knock on his line, and he converted that information into fish location. He continually changed his tactics until he worked out where the fish were and his approach paid off.

Donna is not (or was not) an angler and she was content to sit a watch. Then Simon had two fish on two rods at the same time, and Donna was tasked to lend a hand. It wasn’t long before she was helping with the netting, and then the photography, and it was just a matter of time before she was hooked and had to have a go. The end result was her banking a gorgeous little mirror at 22lb 12oz.