Mas Bas review by The Rangers Fishing Team

After months of planning and preparation it was finally time for me (Steve) to head from Manchester to Bristol to pick up the others. On arrival at Bristol I picked up Andrew (Angler) and Kerry (non-angler) and spent the night at James’ to get a fresh start to head to Dover first thing in the […]

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A new carp lake is born

When Sebastian Vasseur my local fish farmer  contacted me at the start of the year to a ask if I thought Angling Lines would be interested in a new lake I said yes at once… I have seen Sebastian’s other lakes and I knew this could be a real find. He came round to our home […]

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Record week at Lillypool – 85 carp

Andy, Dave, Mark & Tony arrived at Lillypool on Sept 12th 2012 on a mission… to break the lake catch record of 80 carp for the week set in April 2012. And break it they did taking 85 carp from 19 to 36lb, including new p.b for Dave and a 36lb common for Andy. In […]

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Good week at Villefond with 7 x 40lb+ carp

Villefond continues to return really good catches of big carp… we really think it’s one to watch for the future. Mr Bachelor’s party (w/c 3rd Sept) had 29 carp; *   Arnold at 47lb 5oz *   Bennets at 45lb 6oz, *   5 other 40’s, *   15 x high 30’s *   and 7 x 20lber’s Pretty good […]

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Is Vincons the best bagging up water in France?

Jon playing yet another Vincons carp… Without doubt our most prolific venue is Vincons.  If you want to catch lots of carp that’s the place to go.  Here’s a bit more evivdence to support that claim; Jon & Larry fished Vincons w/c 6th August and had 79 carp in total up to 29lbs 7oz. Average size […]

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Breaking More Records In The Army

The Army boys all from the 2nd Britalian Royal Welsh, based in  Tideworth, make their assult on Lillypool week commencing 6 August 2011 breaking new records with a total of 106 runs and 81 fish landed to 44lbs with a new PB for Paul Thomas. Well done lads. Keep up the good work for pleasure […]

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Happy Summer Days at Mas Bas

Happy Summer Days at Mas Bas by Bridget Dawson I’d like to say that the day started early but in fact due to time constraints with the tunnel crossing it started for us around 5pm as we dropped off the dogs in Chesterfield and headed south to pick up our friends. We had chosen the tunnel crossing […]

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Carp spawning and grass hoppers

I promised to video the carp when they started to spawn but I had no luck as I must have the only camera shy carp in France!  Every time I went down to lake they stopped spawning and have now finished.  With recent hot weather we have had an explosion of baby grass hoppers and […]

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Father & son enjoy great Laroussi carp session

54lb & 32lb for father & son, Paul & Peter Mersh Paul & Peter Mersh enjoyed a fabulous Laroussi session (w/c 14th May) taking; Paul : 60lb 2oz carp ,22lb carp, 30lb carp, 16lb carp, 33lb carp, 43lb carp, 54lb carp , 36lb mirror, 40lb 3oz carp. Two sturgeon 57lb, 56lb 26lb grass – PLUS […]

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Laroussi latest stocking news!

There is a new addition at Laroussi and it’s a little smaller than the usual leviathan residents! No it’s not a carp, nor indeed one of Mehdi’s giant vegetable, but Caroline has given birth to a beautiful healthy baby boy, weighing in at just over 9lb. Mehdi says he simply could not be happier at […]

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