Carp lake management – adding Siltex

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 […]

Jack has the Big Linear carp at 43.02 from Molyneux

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 […]

41 carp – a fantastic opening week on Old Oaks

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 […]

A year in the life of an Angling Lines Field Tester – Pt 1

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 […]

Another great early season carp session at Lillypool

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 […]

New Sapphire swim is a big hit with anglers

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 […]

The carp are starting to feed at Lillypoool

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 […]

The Angling Lines office has moved

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 […]

Swim works at Old Oaks carp lake

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 […]

New year, new beginnings for Molyneux carp lake

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 […]

Winter carp fishing at Laroussi

  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 & […]

More 40lb+ carp stocked at Sapphire

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.

Round up of the 2010 carp fishing season at Glehias

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 […]