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The new Old Oaks record – 49.01 Attached are the photos of the new lake record from Old Oaks that I had on Thursday night. Here’s a few details; 49lb 1oz mirror Fish caught at 2.25am Peg 3 8 inch combi rig, size 6 Kaptor Kurv hook, blowback style Quest Fruity Trifle 15mm hook bait […]
The junior lake record was smashed at lillypool by youngster Ben Talbot aged 11 from Warrington, with a superb 34.3lb mirror. A fantastic result for him and I’m sure it won’t be long before he’s catching up with his dad. The 3 angler trip had a great week 9th to 16th April and accounted […]
He’s at it again! Mehdi with his record watermelon! Mehdi Daho, the owner of Laroussi & Old Oaks, tells us he claimed another vegetable prize in the summer. This was for a watermelon, which was a French record, EGVGA record and the best in Europe in 2010. It weighed a massive 107lb!
To get the 2011 season underway Lillypool opened its gates to Andy, Mark and 12yr old Ben. When they arrived it was turning into a blistering hot day for the 9th of April, infact it reached a high of 72f. Anyway, tea made, we made our way around the lake so they could choose their […]
Richard Ward with the current Laroussi record at 76lb The owner of Laroussi, Mehdi Daho, keeps meticulous records of the carp caught at Laroussi. He’s just updated us with his stock summary & we thought we’d reproduce it here too because it makes very impressive reading; There are; * 350 commons & mirrors * Lake […]
Our Villefond session; 25th March to Ist April 2011 Sick as a Parrott… Our trip to Villefond was to celebrate my good friend Andy’s 40th Birthday. The weather had improved showing a large increase in temperature in just a couple of weeks in both England and France. On arriving at the venue we were met […]
Can you remember the first time you fished abroad? Maybe you haven’t been yet. Maybe you are thinking about going. Well my first time was just recently, the week of March 19-26th 2011. The fact that we had never been abroad before was of slight concern. I say we as both me and my dad, […]
Steph & Chris Dagg run Notaires & Alder lakes. Through this personal Blog, Steph is going to describe her experiences of moving to France and living the dream of many UK carp anglers. This question popped up in my brain the other day as I was doing the weekly shop in the supermarket. There were a few […]
Paul Cooper is one of a small band of anglers we use to Field Test our venues. Over the course of several Blog Posts he’ll take you through his 2010 trips; 40.04 Molyneux mirror for Paul Part 2 – Etang Molyneux Another call from David at Angling Lines in early June and Pat Gillet and […]
John London is the owner of Bletiere and through this Blog section he’s going to keep a diary of the daily life of a French carp lake owner. I’m often asked what we do in the winter & do we get bored. So I thought I’d shoot a short video showing you the work I’ve been doing […]
Wayne & family… plus a big Laroussi 50! Laroussi has a well established reputation as one of the best big carp waters in France… but what a lot of anglers forget is that you can now stay in accommodation at the lakeside & take your family. Laroussi regular Wayne Naylor did just that last week […]
Dan Allen is the owner of Oakwood and through this Blog section he’s going to keep a diary of the daily life of a French carp lake owner. If you have any questions for him feel free to post them at the bottom of this post. Today I have been finishing the last application of siltex to […]
39lb of pure gold! As we only have 2 anglers here this week and Andy was happy for me to have a fish I thought I would give the new completed swim a go for a couple of hours in the afternoon. After a quite spell (other than watching the pike spawn, pictures on my […]
STOP PRESS – the Villefond lake record was broken yesterday with this magnificent 51.02 common. The captor was Andy Molyneux… he cast to a showing fish with a Mainline boilie and a size 6 Raptor hook.
Lillypool have installed a BBQ for the start of the 2011 season. Roll on those long summer evenings!
Arthur the common at 49lb Martin & Josh Bennett have just come back from Villefond (w/c 19th March) and what a great session they had! 24 fish, including 7 different 40’s; Arthur at 49lb Max at 42lb.14oz and one they named Bennett at 47lb.4oz plus a load of upper 30’s which are not far away […]
What a fish! 45lb of real beauty! Mr Neales & Markham were the first anglers to fish Old Oaks this year (w/c 12th March) & they had a real Red Letter session; “We were the first group of the year and had a great haul of 41 carp !!! 3 x 40’s, 23 […]
Paul Cooper is one of a small band of anglers we use to Field Test our venues. Over the course of several Blog Posts he’ll take you through his 2010 trips; 36.04 mirror from Paul’s Sapphire trip From early Spring to late November with Angling Lines; Part 1 – Sapphire Lake I have been field […]
Little Bailiff’s prize! Following my recent success on the 6th of March fishing on the baited spots I decided to make the effort at the weekend. It’s now the 13th March and with the bait still going in on the same spots it was obvious the fish were still on the feed The weather was […]
29lb common for Jay the bailiff It’s Sunday March 6th and the weather is finally warming up over here. The nights are still cold, almost into minus figures, but during the day you can feel the heat in the morning sun and things are starting to wake up… animals and plants alike. The temperature has […]
