Between winter and summer the water level at Old Oaks goes up and down. This natural phenomenon has eroded a couple of the pegs, as mentionned by some anglers in their feedback. We have just finished the work to repair them all. We first added first plenty of big stones to stabilize the bottom […]
This article first appeared on the Quest Baits Blog in June 2010 and is reproduced here by kind permission. A few days ago we published a post posing the question “Does the moon phase affect your chance of catching carp?” This post by Shaun Harrison indicates that he thinks it does… “Big Moon Big Common” […]
Here’s an excellent atmospheric video of Shaun Harrison’s session on Laroussi
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 […]
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 […]
Dan with an Oakwood beauty! I bet if I was stood in a room with 100 carp anglers there would be 85 hands up in front of me by now. It must be most anglers dream to have there own fishery whether it be at home or abroad. It certainly was my dream as a […]
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 & […]
One of the carp from the Mas Bas recent stocking We’ve just received a small batch of additional carp. Their weights, in lbs, were as follows; . * 38.06 * 2 x 33 * 3 x 26 * 3 x 24 * 1 x 22 . These new fish fish will definitely help keep the […]
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 […]
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… […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
This video first appeared on the Quest Baits Blog & is reproduced with kind permission.
This video first appeared on the Quest Baits Blog & is reproduced with kind permission.
Here’s the video of the 51lb’er going into Lillypool in November 2010. Full details here.
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 […]
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: […]
