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"Nijkerker Nauw" Nijkerk A beautiful shallow water to practice long
distance fishing. The average water depth is about 1 meter. You need a
boat or the self-confidence that you are able to cast at least 150 meters
to reach the channel of the lake. The chances to catch carp on your first
session is very high. Although specimens are rare, I think (I' am not sure)
30++ must be there.
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"Grindgaten" near Wessum aan de Maas. A beautiful water to play
with your fish finder. The water is very deep (places up to 50 meters are
possible), so the goal is to find a plateau or you must fish near the shore.
It is a water to check your tactics for the french barrages. The chances
to catch carp are low, but if you get one the can be huge! If I am right
the record on the nearby river Maas (which is connected to the lake) is
49 real pounds. Good Luck! back
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| Channels |
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"Zuid Willemsvaart" at all places A top channel to catch all the
carp you want. This channel hides a lot of small common, mirror and line
carp but also a respectable amount of 30++ specimens. Due to high angling
pressure the chances to catch a 20+ carp on your first session are decreasing
rapidly. One of the best spots at the moment is the new detour of the channel
around the City Helmond. A more difficult spot (with a relative higher
amount of big fish) is the one nearby the animal feed corporation CeHaVe
Vegel. watch out for aggressive "colleagues" with
taptoe pictures on their arms who claim that you are sitting on "their"
spot!
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"Whilhelmina" Channel at "Beton Son" or "Stad van Gerwen" A quiet
place to fish on medium sized carp. If you are lucky you will catch a nice30+
but this is more an exception than a common experience. There were rumours
that local people did expand the carp population with a lot of small ones
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| Rivers |
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River Rhine A spectacular river with a lot of potential. The carp
are difficult to find but if you catch one it is probably big!!! The biggest
catch I know is done nearby Rhenen is a 42 pound grass carp. Not a Cyprinus
Carpio but still interesting.
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River IJssel Well known for its spectacular spots at the inlet of
Lake IJssel near the City Kampen. back
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| Amazing pounds |
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De "Gemeentevijver" at Nuenen. This small pound of roughly 1/4 acre contains
a few unexpected big carps. The biggest fish I caught of 23 pound is not
as spectacular as if the average weight and length of the fish I did catch
in this mistery pound: Average Length/Weight 78.4 cm/15.2 pounds with Number
of fish=60.
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Vijver het "Love"at Someren. This pound does contain a mistery fish
called "Moby Dick" Nobody did ever catch the fish but everybody claims
that he was over 105cm!!! I believe I saw him just one time. He was laying
along the shore and I was counting the poles of the shore structure. 16
poles of around 7.5 cm in diameter (makes 120 cm) which means Moby Dick
is still getting larger. Do you believe me! Of course not, but One
thing you know for sure, is that you never know!!!
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