Angling Lines Blog

Chris Roper on his first evening fishing at Monument banked a new lake record Common with this 42.1lb beauty known as ‘Nemo’ – it has an unusually small fin on the right to thank for that.

Not only is it a lake record Common but our first 40 banked AND it was Chris’s new PB beating his last by 5.8lb but smashing his Common PB by 23lb. It made good headlines in Carp-Talk in the foreign news section. Congratulations Chris.

Braving the water shot

On returning home Chris sent us this feedback…

42.01

“An absolutely beautiful lake with exceptional fishing and stunning fish! Mark and Angela run it superbly offering advice and in depth knowledge.
The food package is out of this world…restaurant quality food, piping hot and delivered to your swim, every dish home cooked to perfection! I would come back for the food alone.

Started the week fishing boilie over a bed of pellet but found fishing boilie over boilie to be more successful. I fished dna baits nuttas and s7 as usual. Most rigs worked but we found balanced bottom baits worked well, also single pop ups.” 

For more information, photos and feedback from Monument follow the link – Carp Fishing in France

Lee Johnston, our Lake Owner at Glehias, recently answered a query about the Catfish in the lake, a good read if you’re going out to the venue this year!

Hi, beginning to plan for our visit at the beginning of July, hoping to have a go at the catfish as well as the carp, any advice or tips for bait’s we can bring with us?

We currently have around 27 Catfish in the Specimen Lake, the three biggest are around 45lb, 55lb and an estimated 65-70lb. Five others are between 18lb and 26lb and all the others are between 12lb to 16lb and growing rapidly.

Lake Map

The best baits for the cats have always been live baits (Roach, Tench or Carp) float fished on a size 1 barbless hook somewhere around 2-5 feet off the lake bed (You can catch small Roach, Tench and Carp from the stock lake on float with sweetcorn when you are here). Ledgered dead fish or small squid come a close second place. Large halibuts have caught the odd Cat though I wouldn’t rate these very highly on our lake but they will catch the Carp with the odd chance of picking up a Cat.

 More importantly, if you really do want to put a cat on the bank here, the crucial thing is where you fish for them. continue reading…

PBs all round for the Butler family fishing Oakview at the beginning of this month.

 48lbs – Zach

Ray pushes his PB into the 30s with a 32lb mirror, Ian tops that with a 34lb 2oz mirror and Zach trumps them all with his 48lb mirror, which is the third new 40 out so far this year and a new lake record. Well done all!

Watch below for an interview with the guys and footage of the lake record carp itself.

For more videos and articles from Oakview follow the link - Carp Fishing in France with Accommodation

Caught at Genets last week by Adam Wellings, this is firmly one of the best looking linears we have seen in some time.

39.11

For more information, articles, fish photo’s and feedback from Genets follow the link – Carp Fishing France

Last week Chris Pink went out to fish Blue Lake, a 15 acre lake where the water is crystal clear and the depth ranges from 3 foot to over 18 foot; containing loads of underwater features.

Details of your catches: 14 fish, 1 sturgeon, 2 grass carp, all others were king carp up to 40 1/2 lbs
Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Boilies all the way
General comments: Good fishing

40lb – Chris Pink

For more information, articles and catch reports from Blue Lake follow the link - Fishing France