Richard Ward with the current Laroussi record at 76lb The owner of Laroussi, Mehdi Daho, keeps meticulous records of the carp caught at Laroussi. He’s just updated us with his stock summary & we thought we’d reproduce it here too because it makes very impressive reading; There are; * 350 commons & mirrors * Lake […]
Eddie asks; I have booked a lake with a party of friends on the 19th of March. I recently had a tour of the lake and was disappointed to find it was thick with weed. I would be grateful if you can give me some advice on the best method & rig to use? Hi […]
Our Villefond session; 25th March to Ist April 2011 Sick as a Parrott… Our trip to Villefond was to celebrate my good friend Andy’s 40th Birthday. The weather had improved showing a large increase in temperature in just a couple of weeks in both England and France. On arriving at the venue we were met […]
Can you remember the first time you fished abroad? Maybe you haven’t been yet. Maybe you are thinking about going. Well my first time was just recently, the week of March 19-26th 2011. The fact that we had never been abroad before was of slight concern. I say we as both me and my dad, […]
Steph & Chris Dagg run Notaires & Alder lakes. Through this personal Blog, Steph is going to describe her experiences of moving to France and living the dream of many UK carp anglers. This question popped up in my brain the other day as I was doing the weekly shop in the supermarket. There were a few […]
Paul Cooper is one of a small band of anglers we use to Field Test our venues. Over the course of several Blog Posts he’ll take you through his 2010 trips; 40.04 Molyneux mirror for Paul Part 2 – Etang Molyneux Another call from David at Angling Lines in early June and Pat Gillet and […]
John London is the owner of Bletiere and through this Blog section he’s going to keep a diary of the daily life of a French carp lake owner. I’m often asked what we do in the winter & do we get bored. So I thought I’d shoot a short video showing you the work I’ve been doing […]
Steph & Chris Dagg run Notaires & Alder lakes. Through this personal Blog, Steph is going to describe her experiences of moving to France and living the dream of many UK carp anglers. Back at my blog after an outing. Chris and I were away a whole 30 hours, our first time leaving the farm together, and our first […]
We are often asked for a company that hire out vehicles suitable for carp anglers wanting to go on a French carp fishing trip. We’ve recently come across this company and for groups of up to 6 persons looking for transport this could solve a big problem. Loughton Self Drive offer an extra long […]
Wayne & family… plus a big Laroussi 50! Laroussi has a well established reputation as one of the best big carp waters in France… but what a lot of anglers forget is that you can now stay in accommodation at the lakeside & take your family. Laroussi regular Wayne Naylor did just that last week […]
Dan Allen is the owner of Oakwood and through this Blog section he’s going to keep a diary of the daily life of a French carp lake owner. If you have any questions for him feel free to post them at the bottom of this post. Today I have been finishing the last application of siltex to […]
39lb of pure gold! As we only have 2 anglers here this week and Andy was happy for me to have a fish I thought I would give the new completed swim a go for a couple of hours in the afternoon. After a quite spell (other than watching the pike spawn, pictures on my […]
Steph & Chris Dagg run Notaires & Alder lakes. Through this personal Blog, Steph is going to describe her experiences of moving to France and living the dream of many UK carp anglers. It’s easy to fall in love with a fabulous property – or at least one with a lot of potential! – when […]
STOP PRESS – the Villefond lake record was broken yesterday with this magnificent 51.02 common. The captor was Andy Molyneux… he cast to a showing fish with a Mainline boilie and a size 6 Raptor hook.
Lillypool have installed a BBQ for the start of the 2011 season. Roll on those long summer evenings!
Arthur the common at 49lb Martin & Josh Bennett have just come back from Villefond (w/c 19th March) and what a great session they had! 24 fish, including 7 different 40’s; Arthur at 49lb Max at 42lb.14oz and one they named Bennett at 47lb.4oz plus a load of upper 30’s which are not far away […]
What a fish! 45lb of real beauty! Mr Neales & Markham were the first anglers to fish Old Oaks this year (w/c 12th March) & they had a real Red Letter session; “We were the first group of the year and had a great haul of 41 carp !!! 3 x 40’s, 23 […]
Browsing YouTube we came across this video of Steve Pickering’s October 2010 Villefond session. Steve had a great session landing 20 carp including 3 x 40lb+ and 16 x 30lb+ You can read an article describing his trip here.
Paul Cooper is one of a small band of anglers we use to Field Test our venues. Over the course of several Blog Posts he’ll take you through his 2010 trips; 36.04 mirror from Paul’s Sapphire trip From early Spring to late November with Angling Lines; Part 1 – Sapphire Lake I have been field […]
Little Bailiff’s prize! Following my recent success on the 6th of March fishing on the baited spots I decided to make the effort at the weekend. It’s now the 13th March and with the bait still going in on the same spots it was obvious the fish were still on the feed The weather was […]
