Angling Lines win Total Carp award!

You voted and now the results are in for the Total Carp Tackle Awards 2011. The readers and website visitors, have spoken, voting for the best tackle, companies, bait, venues, anglers and carping items of 2011 – and Angling Lines won the award for BEST FOREIGN HOLIDAY COMPANY. Full list of winners here . . .

Fantastic winter fishing at Old Oaks!

50.10 Kevin Hosie has just enjoyed (w/c 26th November 2011) a fantastic winter carp session at Old Oaks.  He had 24 carp… biggest a 50lb 10oz common plus; *  9 x 40’s *  10 x 30’s *  4 x 20’s Now that’s not bad for December!

We welcome 2 new carp at Mas Bas

This week the Main Lake at Mas Bas welcomed two new arrivals, a lovely 25lb mirror and a very pretty  17lb 8oz red carp. Lets hope they both settle in well to add even more excitement to next seasons fishing.

Winter Carp Lake Maintenance

  I run a small 14 man syndicate on a 5 acre estate lake in Staffordshire and it’s approaching that time of year that I like to start to prepare for the forthcoming season. Over the past weekend I’ve had work parties on the lake clearing snags, repairing stages and walkways and trimming back reeds. […]

The big willow at Mas Bas gets a haircut!

With the temperature still up around 20° in the afternoon, the south west remains the warmest area of France. Making the most of this Indian summer Gilles decided to tackle a big outside job here at Mas Bas and called in Ivan the tree ‘hairdresser’. He definitely made his mark on the trees around willow […]

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Webcast – November 2011

This issue introduces two new venues, news of a major stocking, a 54lb capture plus part 1 of our new series that will follow the trials & tribulations of an owner as he sets up a brand new French carp venue.

Weed clearing on an industrial scale!

Weed can be a problem on some lakes in certain years.  Here’s an industrial sized solution!  This service is offered by one of our lake owners, Sebastian Vasseur, for any lake over one acre in size.  If you’re interested in the service his number is on the second sheet… or we can put you in […]

Success comes from confidence in your bait

No matter how good an angler you are or how poor, if you have no confidence or have lost that confidence in your bait you are bound to fail. On a recent carp fishing trip to Boux, Jim Kelly and I were both armed with our confidence booster, Quality Baits HG42. With each of us […]

Over 1 ton of carp stocked into Blue Lake – Nov ’11

After a short delay caused by the indian summer, Blue Lake‘s major stocking programme is under way. A total weight of carp of 2,500lb including 33 x 30’s and 52 x 20’s is added to the existing stock. 86 carp in all with an average weight of just over 29lb. And that’s not all………..There’s another […]

Boux carp lake – an update

Jim Kelly with a fine 31lb Boux common Paul Cooper and I had a week booked on Boux during the end of October. It was to be my first trip to the venue; Paul had fished it on two previous occasions. On arriving at the lake I was not disappointed as it is situated in […]