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Michael Battenbough’s group came away from Villefond last week having caught;
2×50′s 13×40′s 7×30′s and 2×20′s. 

General comments: Very warm welcome received, lovely lake with some seriously big fish, not for the faint hearted.
Your best tactics/bait/rigs: House bait, pop-ups or bottom bait plum nut.

Left – 43lb
Right – Bennetts at 51lb 8oz

55lb ‘Arthur’

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Liam Whalley’s group visited Villefond in February and out of the nine carp caught, 6 of those were 40+, including the two beautiful big commons below.

49lb

43lb

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My fish of the month for March is not the biggest fish in the lake by any stretch but was still a special capture. So what makes the capture of a 35lb 10oz mirror in a lake full of 40’s and 50’s worthy of the title fish of the month?

Well a few things; firstly the fish was one of 2 fish caught on a short 5hr session in unseasonal cold weather.

But the main reason for this selection is that this is the first ever recorded capture of this fish. Which for an established water such as Villefond where every capture big or small is logged for reference purposes is incredible. The fact that this fish has avoided capture for so long begs the question of how many other special fish have done the same swimming and feeding undetected.

The fight itself was also strange on lifting into the fish it came straight up and jumped clean out of the water, it then continued to fight in the surface layers rolling and half jumping several times.

A truly unique fish and definitely worthy of fish of the month…

Carp Fishing in France at Villefond

Arthur at 55.04

Winter Review

Lake Manager Mark Lambert has taken full advantage of the quiet winter period here at Villefond to test out the new tweaks and flavours made in the house bait range which includes the new plum nut bait which has already had great results. Fishing just short sessions through out the winter using the new baits Mark banked 3 x 20’s, 6x 30’s, 9 x40’s (to 47lb 12oz) and 1 x 50.

The 50 was the big Common known as Arthur and for the second capture running has set a new lake record for a common Carp.

This is the fish I will focus on in the next section.

Fish of the month

Arthur is by far the lakes largest original fish (unstocked by us) and was first reported to us by Mark himself some years ago at 44lb+ and since then has continued to grow and has now set a new common carp lake record on both its last captures this time at a whopping 55lb 4oz.

I know as well on a personal level how much this capture meant to  Mark as well, as lake manager Mark gets to see all these fish getting caught but only very rarely gets to fish for them himself and has been desperate to catch one of the lakes 50’s. A dream he has now made reality and for the fish to be caught on the new improved Villefond house bait just makes that capture even sweeter.

We have our first customers on as early as mid February this year and with the new bait already performing so well I can se another year of records here at Villefond so watch this space in the coming months.

Carp Fishing in France at Villefond

Lac Du Villefond‘s Arthur at a Massive 55lb 4oz caught by Mark Lambert on 30/01/2013.  Mark used a 16mm pop up on a size 8 curve shank hook over a bed of 16mm venue sold boilies.

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Carp Fishing in France at Villefond