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 […]
Jack with Big Lin at 43.02 Jack Cuthbertson has been helping out with the swim improvements at Molyneux. Each evening he’s been getting the rods out & he’s had some spectacular catches. Well now he’s topped it with a new lake record; Another day or two passed and with the fish becoming ever more active […]
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 […]
There’s lots of improvement work that’s been carried out at Molyneux. Here’s some before & after shots of the improvements to the swims.
The new pontoon swim at Sapphire The new pontoon swim at Sapphire is now in place. A boardwalk takes you straight out of the woods onto a large decked area, which juts out beyond the tree line. Anglers now have access to the area at the far end of the lake and the first anglers […]
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 […]
We’re delighted to tell you that Angling Lines have been voted “Best Overseas Holiday Company in 2010” by the readers of Carp Talk. This is the 3rd successive year we have won the award. Many thanks to everyone who voted for us.
We recently completed the move to our new offices. We’re now on the High Street in the local village of Tibshelf … still a sleepy little village but busier than the farm location we had previously! Feel free to pop-in for a chat anytime! Angling Lines 33 High Street Tibshelf Derbyshire DE55 5NX Tel: 01773 […]
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 […]
Molyneux – what a gorgeous lake! Clearview carp tours would like to welcome Wally & Helen as the new Molyneux staff. Wally has been a carp angler for 20 years fishing various venues across the U.K. For the last 8 years he was a member of the well publicised Grenville Carp Syndicate in Cambridgeshire. Over […]
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 & […]
45.09 Michel Bigot has just netted one of his stock ponds and dispatched 10 more carp to Sapphire Lake. The best of these were two mirrors weighing 45lb and 43lb and the others were all upper twenties. These are added to the nine 40’s and the 50 we saw him stock a few weeks ago.
39.07 – May 2010 With all of the Christmas and New year celebrations out of the way the next thing we look forward to here at Glehias is the start of the 2011 carp fishing season. . Firstly we would like to give a big thank you to all of our customers who visited us […]
We recently reported that the whole of one bank at Sapphire will be fishable in 2011. This addresses a concern anglers had last year that there were areas of the lake where the carp could seek refuge and not be reached. You can see the swim map here and you can download it here – Sapphire PDF […]
