Glehias Carp Hotspots
Hectic catch action from the Glehias hotspots – all caught on camera. French Carp Fishing at Glehias
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Bumper Week of French Carping at Glehias
The Draper Party were here with us at Glehias last week and and had a bumper week of fishing, we were fortunate enough to be given their complete catch report. We love it when we get a complete record of a good week’s catches from our anglers. Apart from it being a precise record of your […]
The Film Stars of Glehias Carp Lake
We just want to say a big THANK YOU to our anglers here this week Tony Draper, Barry Price and Kevin Kerr for putting up with us filming a new lake video over the last couple of days here at Glehias. By the sound of it, camera man Martin Barker got some great film of […]
Fishing from the Spit at Beaurepaire
We join a group of Dutch anglers fishing from the spit at Beaurepaire in June ’12… & the German Vs Holland Euro football match disrupts the proceedings. Angling holidays at Beaurepaire
Carp Fishing – Stalking with Dave Lane
As the summer storms ahead you could be forgiven for thinking it was still spring as the weather of late has been everything but good. Stalking is probably one of my most favoured ways of tackling carp, the idea of picking your way through a bush and positioning yourself in that perfect area with just […]
Water Levels at Beaurepaire
Because the water levels do vary at Beaurepaire we often get asked what should be expected. Here’s the levels at 12th June ’12 after an averagely wet spring. Angling holidays at Beaurepaire
Villefond May Review
Finger Painting @ 39lb Wow the weather in May at Villefond has been a little crazy the torrential rain of April carried over to the start of the month and was quickly replaced almost over night with really high temperatures. The inevitable effect of this was that the fish turned there attention away from feeding […]
Filming the TF Gear Carp Fishing DVD
Linear complex in Oxford is the scene for the new TF Gear carp fishing DVD. The DVD will be available free on the front cover of next months Total Carp Magazine. With most fishing dvd’s there seems to be some amounts of trickery involved, If you do you watch the disk, which will be on […]
What a Family Holiday!
The Hope family enjoyed a fantastic week at Beaurepaire (w/c 12th May)havingg 48 runs with 44 landed; * 32 carp all mirrors * 7 x 40’s * 13 x 30’s * 11 x 20’s * 1 @ 16lb * 2 grass carp 19.8 & 24lb * 2 catfish 12 & 37lb * 8 bream Here’s […]
Return to Blue Lake – Field Testing Tales
Last year Jim Kelly and I visited Blue Lake in almost monsoon conditions, with freshly dug swims with marl and mud everywhere, it was a trip to forget and we finished our trip early due to the adverse conditions. A view of Blue lake from swim 7 On our return to the UK we reported […]
New Lillypool Lake Record Common – 43lb 3oz
43.03 A new Lillypool lake record common for Martin Larner @ 43lb 3oz – a new PB for him. It was his last day and it came with the last cast of the week! French Carp Fishing
New Catfish Record Set at Old Oaks
70lb Congratulations to Rick for setting the new Old Oaks catfish record with a 70lb moggy! Last time out this cat was 60lb. Carp in the 50’s and 40’s are still coming out week after week. This really is a fantastic year for Old Oaks. Carp France
First 40lb+ carp banked at Blue Lake yesterday
We have just heard from lake owner Sebastien that one of this week’s anglers has banked Blue Lake‘s first 40 with a carp of 42lb. And it looks like the anglers (Denton group of 4) are in for a busy time this week. Early Monday morning and they have already chalked up over 20 carp […]
It’s never too late…
I’m blogging this because this week we have already taken 3 last minute bookings for carp fishing holidays starting , yes you guessed it, this weekend! One of the calls began with the sentence; “I don’t expect for a minute but… have you anywhere available this weekend?” … and to be fair that’s pretty much […]
Beaurepaire – A Coming of Age
53lb Beaurepaire was born in 2005 , 7 years ago and the big decision that faced Bernard at the time was how to stock the lake. He could obviously go for smaller numbers and bigger carp and stock additional fish along the way or start the lake in it’s infancy with good quality smaller carp, […]
April Review from Villefond
The DIY Ghosty @ 44lb 1oz The fish are yet to really get on the feed at Villefond but this hasn’t prevented anglers from having some amazing catches and some really special fish have been caught which has made picking a fish of the month really difficult. A lot of the lakes real characters have […]
An Update From Blue Lake
Blue Lake – looking across the lake from swim 7 General Paul Cooper and I visited Blue Lake last July, before it was stocked and the going was tough. The lake had been stocked during the winter and we had returned, hopefully to catch some carp. On arrival we had a good look round and […]
3 x 50’s in one week from Beaurepaire
Phil Belton with the 53lb Beaurepaire lake record Colin Ventons group had a great session at Beaurepaire 21st to 28th April 2012. Battling gale force winds and torrential rain, the guys caught 3 different 50’s including a new lake record of 53lb. Sadly, for some of the guys, an unexpected illness sent 4 of them […]
Trip to Boux – Nan’s Parting Gift
53lb 10oz Derek Ryley, from Liverpool, took his three sons (Joshua 19, Liam 17 and Louis 13) to Boux at the wish of his Nan, Sally Latimer, who gifted them money for the trip prior to her passing away. The family group, had a fantastic result taking 63 carp which included, 4 x 50’s, 14 […]
