Angling Lines Blog

by Gareth Watkins
France has had a hard winter this year, many lakes were frozen for a number of weeks at the start of 2009 and even now in the first week of April we are still getting frosts. This has naturally had its effect on water temperatures.
Water temperatures are the key to fish moving and [...]

by Ian Gemson
A holiday fishing in France has never been easier arrange, you only have to take a quick look on the internet to see there is a large number of different venues offering a wide range of accommodation and food packages to chose from. These holidays range from the most basic “Drive & Survive” [...]

Ian Sweenie wrote:
I’m booked on Ribiere in early May any advice or tips would be appreciated as I’ve been told that they have a lot of crays in there.
Hi Ian,
I’ve fish Ribière on a couple of occasions both early and later in the year and have never been troubled by Crayfish. When I shot the [...]

James Derbyshire wrote:
Hi there.
I am booked on Mas Bas main lake at the end of July.
I am the only person fishing (my wife will be sunbathing!). I’m starting to think about getting myself sorted out for the trip and am wondering how much bait (and what baits) I should be taking with me for a [...]

I’ve just had the news and photos in from Eric at Grosley that the stocking of the new carp went ahead as planned just before Christmas.
On the 23rd of December a total of 290 mirror and common carp were introduced to the venue. These were split over the two lakes with 130 fish stocked to [...]