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Ann Marshalls’ family must have been fairly surprised when they reeled this 24lb pike in (on a boilie) last week when fishing Vaux.

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They followed this up with 3 doubles from top of the lake, 4 twenties and 2 thirties at 31lb and 35lb. All fish over 20lb were caught from the dam wall. Their most successful tactic was walking baits round to the sluice and putting them 2-3 meters off the wall. High-viz popups and yellow dumbbells worked the best.

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Paul Steele visited Vaux at the beginning of April, here’s his catch report…

Details of your catches: 40lb11oz mirror, 35lb2oz mirror and 24lb7oz common. 3 pike up to 4lb. Lots of roach and perch (1lb8oz to 1lb14oz)

Comments: We chose Vaux again due to it being an excellent venue for a family holiday with good fishing right outside the house. Don’t let the catch report put you off; only one angler fishing for carp in 0-8degc, north easterly winds, fishing days only.

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Really pleased to see “two tone”. Coarse fishing for perch, pike and roach kept the family happy all week.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Hi-viz chod rig (pink fruitella)

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In the same month we also had this stunning long two tone come out at Villefond thanks to Malcolm Battenbough’s group.

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We have been sorting through the photos received from anglers towards the end of our 2012 season at Vaux, comparing them with previous photos in our file, and are very pleased to say that we have another new 40lb-er to report.

Martin Williams came on a fishing holiday with us and landed a mirror of 46lb12oz in the last week of October which previously came out at 38lb 8oz earlier in the year.

46lb8oz Mirror Carp from French Lake Vaux

The same Mirror Carp caught earlier in the year at 38lb 8oz 

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Warren with a 46lb 01oz Mirror

A huge vote of thanks to Warren, who was fishing on his own, for giving Vaux a great start to the new season by achieving a catch of 28 carp up to 46lb1oz, including three NEW 40s and seven unrecorded 30s.  It was a February week of bitterly cold conditions, with some snow and some rain, but despite the harsh weather, he spent the week bivvied up lakeside.  Warren is an astute, technical angler encompassing rigs, baiting and overall tactics.  He fished a combination of pop-ups and assorted bottom baits, slack lines with small leads and tight lines with big leads.  His slack lines accounted for one of the 40s and his tight lines for the other two.

He was enjoying a very good hit rate during the night that he caught his first two 40s, however, because it was so very cold, with the air temperature down to -6^o and because he was fishing alone, he was physically unable to get his rods back out into the water.  Although he would have liked to carry on, he was therefore prevented from fishing on through the night.  48 hours later he banked his third 40lb-er. continue reading…

Martin Williams with a 46lb 12oz Carp from Vaux in Oct 2012

Our apologies for the delay in putting up our 2012 End of Year Report.  It has been a very busy Winter for us, but I thought I had better let you all of you who are interested know before we get any further into 2013, our tenth season.  We hope that all our angling and family visitors had a great Christmas and we wish them all a belated Happy New Year

2012 saw bookings slightly down due to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations, the Olympics and the Paralymphics.  This has lead to a disappointing drop in the numbers of carp caught throughout the season.

Out of a total of 474 (2011 – 541 : 2010 – 490) recorded carp landed in 2012, there were;

*  120 x 30lb+ (2011 – 141 : 2010 – 109) and of those, 58 were 35lb+ (2011 – 68 : 2010 – 39)

*  20 x 40lb+ (2011 – 22 : 2010 – 8), of which 7 were 45lb+.

In the second week of October 2012, Jayne repeated her 2011 final day by banking a 40lb08oz mirror, her last fish, on the last day of her two week holiday.  The only fish that David caught during the first week of August was a 42lb mirror, making him top rod on size of carp for the week and finally, in one day’s fishing in July, Chas’s last carp was a 43lb08oz mirror, on a day when he banked two 40lb+ and six 30lb+

In the first week of April, Sam’s first catch was a 40lb08oz mirror and then in the first week of June, the first fish that Jezz landed was his PB of 45lb3oz

The highest number of thirties landed by visiting anglers in one week was eleven, which happened twice in the season, firstly in May by Gary’s party and secondly in October by Mark and Jayne.  There was just one week when only carp under 30lb were caught.  The largest number of carp caught in one week was 36, also during Gary’s week, and the average number banked per week in 2012 was 17.

Thanks again to all our visitors for the care they give to our venue.  We appreciate your consideration.

Good luck to our 2013 visitors;  we are looking forward to seeing you

Chas and Josie

Fishing Holiday at Vaux