Angling Lines Blog

Roy van Goor is a Laroussi regular, having landed a 61lb mirror on a previous trip, he returned for more this May. Roy has kindly provided us with a great write up of his recent trip to the lake and the capture of the 62lb ‘Le Grand Male’…  

Big fish on the feed

After a 6 hour drive from Holland we arrived at the gates of Laroussi. Mehdi must have heard the cars stopping because the gates to heaven opened almost immediately. We greeted Mehdi and had a little chat about the normal things in life.

Rods out on the 1st day

Soon the subject changed to what we came for… tackling the big carp that inhabited the lake. Mehdi informed us how the lake was fishing and it all became clear nature was almost a month behind due to the bad weather last winter. Fishing was slow, but the fish that were being caught were, in most cases, the bigger residents of Laroussi.

The 2 other anglers were already walking around the lake as they arrived before us. We greeted them and after Mehdi completed his talk about rules and things we would need to know we were ready for the draw. First timer Jos had the first choice and went on the point. 2nd was Neill picking Le Chene. Damn… that’s the one I fancied were my thoughts. Coming out 3rd myself I was in a bit of a dilemma, continue reading…

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

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

Mick and Alan fished Alder for a week from Saturday 27th April and here is a round up of their feedback;

Mick’s New PB – 42.03

Details of your catches: 28 Carp, 2 x 40′s up to 42.3, 4 x 30′s up to 31, 19 x 20′s.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Bottom baits tipped with plastic corn or double 14/15mm boilies. I was trialing baits for Custom Baits Ltd and their peach/black pepper boilies out-fished Mainline Cell, it was only when we ran out (had 5kg) that the cell come into its own.

General comments: The fish in alder are some of the prettiest, hardest fighting carp i have had the pleasure of doing battle with, they don’t know when to give up, amazing stunning fish.

We were up against it before we arrived as the temp dropped 20′ over the 2 days before we got there, continue reading…