viverone carpers
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On my recent holiday to Italy, I managed to
meet up with some Italian carpers.
Since I go there every year, and I
continually see information about Italian
carp anglers and there catches on
Facebook. I contacted some of them to see
if any were near where we visit.
This is how i got in contact with Enrico and
Robin Calcagno, father and son, and
absollutely mad about carping. Robin is
about 16, but has already had in catches
reported in some Italian carp mags.
So they live not too far from my mother in
laws house in Visone where we were
staying, but during most of my visit they
were going to be fishing at a place called
Lago Di Viverone
http://www.globeholidays.net/Europe/It
aly/Piemonte/LagoDiViverone/LagoDiViv
erone_Lago1.htm
So one slightly overcast day I convinced the
boss that we should got for a drive and have
a look, it's approx 90 minutes from Visone.
We arrived at the lake and continued on the
the village of Viverone, hmmm .. this wasn't
going to be eay to find the guys, a call to
Enrico, with my wife translating both ways,
a few wrong turns, a few miles in the wrong
direction ... all along with the lake on our
left ... it is big ...
Finally we meet up with Enrico, we are on
the wrong side of the lake, so a quick visit
to the bar for a cool drink. This was when i
relaised this was no ordinary carp lake,
there was a beach with people swimming
and sunbathing ...
So a quick 10 minutes round the lake,
through another part of Viverone town we
parked our rental and jumped into Enricos 4
x 4 .... he needed it, he shoved it into 4
wheel drive and we inch down this track in
the forest, 4x4 is required, we cross axled,
3 wheeled and bumped and jolted our way
down till we came to a small clearing in the
woods.
Here was the camp .... I lost count how
many tents and bivvies they had set up,
probably about 6 or 7 ... for 3 of them ...
but they were there for 4 weeks .. lol ...
there were sleeping bivvies, food storgae,
equipment storgae etc, a marquee to eat in
with mozzy mesh all around it .. bloody
brilliant, they even had a shower set up.
The friend Patrick arrived shortly after with
a few supplies.
They also so had all the equipment needed
to make thier own boilies on the bank and a
Cross Bow to grab a wild boar if one
happened to stroll by ..
They fished a bay at one end of the lake,
boated the bait out over 150 meters over
the weed to thier chosen spots. They used a
rubber band looped through the swivel
above the hooklength and wrapped this
around a large pebble/stone, this was the
lead, once a fish took the bait the pebble
was lost. Cheaper than losing leads.
Jake, Robin and Joe
Rods were positioned with the tips up high,
this was to avoid the line bites from the
weed.
That is Viverone on the other shore
Most incredible was the size of the boilies
used .. 44mm with a 30mm on top to make
a snowman ... just huge. I asked Enrico why
so big .... he gave me a classic answer in
broken English ... "Big Boilie, Big Carp"
simple as that. Brilliant.
Thats a Big Snowman
They landed 2 carp while we were there, in
fact, the alarm beeped a couple of times
and we dismissed it, but my wife watched
the rod tips bounce and alerted Enrico so
she said it was her carp, so she had to hold
her first ever fish ...
Enrico made us a fresh pasta meal on the
bank complete with salami, vino and
expresso ... awesome.
The next swim was occupied by some
friends Andrea, Gabrielle and Davide, all
keen anglers. In fact Andrea is fishing this
week in the WCC, they are on peg
CCMoores 1, they had a fish but at this time
only one so aren't winning, but they are
winning thier section. Look out for the name
Andrea Bertelli.
They asked us to stay and fish the night,
but once my missus saw the huge rat
running around I knew that was never
gonna happen.
Not only are there a few rats, there's the
scorpions, snakes, wild boar, evil mosquitos
and the biggest baddest wasps and hornets
you never ever want in your bivvy.
They fished for approx 4 weeks and landed
80+ carp. to 40+
here's a few pics of the adventure ...
next year, forget France I'm off to Viverone
...
back, Gabrielle, Robin, Me, Patrick, Jake
front, Enrico, Andrea, Davide, Joe ... and
Kim the dog
We had a great day visitng them, all were
so friendly helpful and keen to discuss
carping.
Next year, just maybe ... hmmmmm
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