Do moon phases affect carp fishing?

You’ll probably be aware that many people believe that the phases of the moon have an effect on animal behaviour and in particular the behaviour of fish.  So is your chance of catching carp affected by the particular phase of the moon? Well, you’d be surprised to learn that many well respected carp anglers pay […]

Advanced carp lake management – microchipping carp

Not worth stealing fish from here! Chips4Fish – what would you want to microchip a carp for? That is the usual question I get asked when I say what we do at Chips4Fish.  The answer is simple… Identification.  No ambiguity, when you put a microchip in a fish you know when you run a microchip […]

Winter carp fishing at Laroussi

  Mark Oakes experienced some true winter carping at Laroussi just before Christmas (w/c 26th November 2010).  As you can see from the photo above he experienced around 6 inches of snow and had to come home 2 days early because the lake froze over! Did he catch?  He sure did…. a 43lb carp & […]

A great first year with Angling Lines!

Notaires lake in its summer glory… 2010 was our first year with Angling Lines. We have two venues, Alder Lake and Notaire’s House and Lake, on our 75 acre estate in Creuse, in central France. And it was a great inaugural year. Notaire’s was booked for odd weeks off season, and pretty much solidly from […]

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Carp Video News – January 2011 Webcast

Here’s the first of our new Webcasts – monthly video news from our venues covering notable carp catches, what’s new at our venues and any offers we may be running. . This issue includes a focus on our big carp venues and shows carp of 76lb+ that came from both Laroussi and Gigantica in 2010… […]

Best Bit of Carp Fishing Tackle in 2010

I was sat in the bivvy at the week-end thinking about the various bit of kit we add to our arsenal and how every so often one item will become one of those you really couldn’t do without and would replace immediately should anything happen to them. There have been four items of kit for […]

Looking for a carp runs water?

Alan Bigot introducing one of the new stockies Following on from the introduction of the 51 lb mirror at Lillypool, the lads have gone mad and put in yet more fish in for your enjoyment. Yes, I did say more fish added to the already impressive head of carp.  This should really help guarantee even […]

More carp stocked at Villefond French carp lake

The carp arrive! Yesterday, January 12th, Villefond received an additional batch of carp from fish farmer Michel Bigot.  These fish are all young fast growing carp that will help boost the run rate still further on this prolific venue. The weight (in lb’s) of the fish that were stocked was; 5 x commons; 27, 26, 22, 21, 20, 18 14 x […]

Carp lake owner grows record radish!

As reported on this Blog several times over the last few years, Mehdi Daho, the owner of Laroussi & Old Oaks, is a champion vegetable grower.  He’s normally known for his record pumpkins but this time he’s grown a record radish.  Weighing in at 12lb it recently took the European record for a radish. Well […]

A great year’s carp fishing at Villefond

The magnificent common, Big John, at 50lb 5oz. Caught October 2010 A Happy New year to you all!  Well, it’s time for the end of year report again, it just seems to come round so fast.  In 2009 we promised bigger and better things to come at Villefond and in 2010 the lake certainly delivered. […]

Winter carp fishing – at what temperature do they feed?

Finally most lakes around here have eventually crept back up in water temperature to make the catching of carp a much more realistic prospect than it was a couple of weeks back. For 30 odd years I have taken water temperatures during the winter months. I don’t mean just dangling a thermometer in a few […]

Off-set Carp Hooks – Are They More Effective?

Question: Hi Shaun, Nowadays all carp hooks are straight pointed but after purchasing some of these Smart point hooks that you use I see that the point is twisted off centre, not exactly sure what the techincal term for it is!  What is the difference between these hooks, does it affect the fishing? Tom Answer: […]

Winter carping – what’s the best carp rig?

This article first appeared on the Quest Baits Blog & is reproduced with kind permission Can you please tell me what you think are the best rigs for winter and the cold weather.  Thanks. Cold water rigs for me, differ very little from my normal rigs, however I do like to scale things down somewhat. You […]

Website developments – Live Help facility added

We’ve introduced a Live Help facility on the Website which enables you to conduct a Web based chat with us live between 9 & 5pm, Monday to Friday. It’s one more route for you to be able to ask us any questions you may have. All these Website enhancements are designed to give you as […]