Part 2 of John London’s article describing his experiences of buying Bletiere – you can read part one here. After all the excitement of finding your dream new home in France, complete with a lake to die for, the hard part now starts… and that’s the paper work in France. It’s a killer and there’s […]
March 1st, 2010 The aim of this years re stocking at Mas Bas was to increase the numbers of 30’s. Gilles went up to the fish farmer at La Brenne in the west of France and picked 21 beautiful mirror carp, all between 30 and 35lb. As you can see from the photos they are […]
Quest have just launched their new boilie for 2010 – Chilli Chocolate. Shaun Harrison describes it; Every once in a while you stumble across something in life which cannot be ignored! This is the case with our new Chilli Chocolate range. I was working along a totally different theme when I uncovered some […]
Every year we get calls from anglers whose GPS systems have directed the many miles from their intended destinations. Because of this we always recommend you take a good French road map & use it, together with the directions we provide, to at least check your Sat Nav is not taking you miles out of […]
I was sat thinking the other night after bemoaning about the seemingly never ending winter and the lack of any good programmes on the TV. when my mind turned to my forthcoming fishing trips this year to France, and within a few moments I found myself smiling at the thought that spring isn’t too far […]
Another thought provoking rig piece from Chas, the owner of Vaux; A European gentleman turned up at Vaux one day last year when I was fishing. His first question was could he fish the lake, to which my reply was no. His second question was how big are the fish, because he was an […]
Here’s the short video clip of the recent additional stocking at Lillypool. To recap; on 18th December 2009 a further 55 carp were stocked. Six of the fish were just under 20lbs with the rest ranging from 20 to 30lb, the average weight being 24lb 10oz, and the biggest being 29lb 5oz with two lovely commons […]
Here’s an article from one of our field testers, Paul Cooper. Paul is one of a small band of very good anglers we send out to France to evaluate new venues for us. They often arrive with very little feedback to help them and they are under a lot of pressure to get the best […]
We moved to France 3 years ago now and found our small piece of heaven, La Bletiere. We teamed up with Angling Lines and so life as a commercial carp venue started.But how did we get here?When we have guests fishing here, other than the obvious questions about tactics, the question asked most often is how […]
Continuing our series of posts from lake owners detailing their experiences of moving to France & buying a carp lake here’s a post from Andrew, the owner of Molyneux ; Learning French Maybe a strange topic for venue management but if you’re living in France it’s goes without saying how important it is speak the […]
David writes; The Winter fishing at Vaux this year has been superb – see the January 28th Blog post here In this post from Chas, the owner of Vaux, he gives away one of his winter edges… his Ice Rig! From May 2002 when we bought Vaux until March 2004 when it was opened as […]
Here at the Angling Lines office we get lots of potential lake owners come to us for advice as they consider the pro’s & con’s of fulfilling every carp anglers dream – buying their own carp lake. We’re always happy to advise based on our 10 years experience in marketing carp venues… but we lack […]
A very interesting series of posts on the Forum at the moment covering the Barbed Vs Barbless debate. As with most things in life there’s 2 sides to every argument and whilst I’d always thought that the pro-barbed argument was more about it being to the anglers advantage (as opposed to the carps) I must […]
David writes; I had this Email sent to me by a French lake owner today… I thought I’d pass it on so other lake owners could either benefit or comment; ‘I recently had a meeting with a recognised fishery expert and we had a very interesting conversation about the use of lime. It is already […]
This winter at Villefond is going to be a very busy time for us… here’s a brief outline of some of the improvements we will be making; * we are implementing a winter feeding program which we’ll increase as spring rolls around so that the excellent growth rates we’ve seen to date continue * […]
Following on from yesterdays post which definitely proves it’s worth winter carping in France, today we address the age old question – do UK carp feed sufficiently often in the winter to make it worth while fishing for them? In this excellent piece Shaun Harrison gives us the benefit of his 30 years of carp […]
For the brave ones who’ve crossed the channel in search of French winter carp there’s certainly been good rewards. Ian Lewis & 3 mates have just had a great week at Vaux (17th – 24th January) taking 6 mirrors, 4 being in the 30s, biggest 38.07; 2 commons, biggest 21.06; and 7 pike, biggest 25lb. […]
We’ve been showcasing the Top Cats resort in Thailand for several months now. You can learn more about them here. Here’s a new series of videos the Korda boys have just released following their trip there earlier this year. Lucky buggers!
With all this gloomy weather about we thought we’d point you to an article which we’ve just received from Rob Allen. He fished Villefond & had a cracking session back in the hazy days of summer. Here’s an extract from his article; A few hours quickly passed with no sign of fish or takes so […]
PVA and other water soluble products which either melt, separate or shrink in the water are incredibly useful products for many carp anglers. Most would be totally lost without several different forms in their tackle bags. From PVA bags, mesh stocking tubes, string, tape and foam nuggets… all are fantastic carp catching aids when used […]
