How big are the carp in the Moulin du Bley, and how many are there?
The carp range from 20lb to the mid 50’s, but 1 fish in 60 fish may be a high double. From our weekly catch records we estimate that more than 75% of the carp at the Bley are between 30lb and 50lb. A further 20% of the fish will certainly be over the 25lb mark, this leaves the rest of the carp at the low to mid 20lb mark.The biggest carp that we weighed in 2009 was a 54lb mirror and 6 different 50’s were also caught during the year. The biggest common banked so far has been 49lb, and that’s just one of at least 10 different 40lb plus commons that we know of. We estimate that there are approximately 50 carp over the 40lb mark with many of those fish fast approaching the 50lb mark.One of our regular carpers has caught, weighed and photographed 33 totally different 40s in 5 years visiting the Bley.Top rod for 2009 was Lea Brown from Hertforshire who took 53 carp in one week with 10 x 20s to 29lb.14,,,,, 41 x 30s to 39lb.15,,,, 2 x 40s to 46lb and Barry the sturgeon at 37lb as a bonus for
