Mas Bas Lotus lake produced this 41lb’er for Jake Writing as the mother of Jake Carling, an avid 12 year old anger from Kent intent on spending as much of his summer holidays, (preferably ‘en France!) staking out big carp, I seized an opportunity to seek a venue recommendation from the great Danny Fairbrass during […]
Terry Banyard of the Mackinlay Party landed a 52lb catfish at 4pm on Sunday the 22nd of August at Glehias and has earned himself the “OAP’s Lake Record Catfish” award. The Maniac Moggie came from under the big overhanging Willow on the Gorse bank and was taken on a half Chilli Chocolate boilie combined with […]
Looking towards the shallow end from the dam Sapphire is a beautiful, natural, rich lake, of around 20 acres set in the heart of rural France. Several parties had found the lake difficult and I must admit to having some reservations about fishing it. However, the lake looked such a gem (Sapphire!) I decided to […]
Dan the Villefond catfish has come out 8lb heavier than last caught and is now 60lb
We sell far more 15mm boilies than we do 20mm boilies which does surprise me. I like small baits in my own fishing but tend to do so from 20mm baits. Let me explain. To me there is nothing worse than not being able to quite reach the fish with free baits. This is […]
69.12 Laroussi mirror for 15 year old Chris Tsourou We reached Laroussi on the 24the July 2010. The weather was very hot so we set all our kit out and got comfortable before we even considered casting any lines. After marking out our spots we began baiting with the Hemp, Laroussi party mix and four different types of hook […]
A good 30 from Molyneux There’s no doubt that Molyneux has produced a very high average size of carp this year. The latest catch by Mr Napolitano proves the point; 18 carp to 33.08, including 5 x 30s, 3 x 29’s and 2 x 28’s with only 3 under 23lb. It’s quite clear that many […]
Beaurepaire in its summer glory Rob Johnson’s party of 4 anglers has just had a massive catch at Beaurepaire. They took 121 fish; 90 carp: 1 x 41lb, 3 x 30lb+, 41 x 20lb, the rest doubles 23 cats to 41.12lb 8 x grass carp to 24lb Here’s what Rob had to say; “Every tactic […]
A cracking 40.04 mirror from Molyneux As I left the gates of Etang Molyneux in March 2007, having fished through temperatures ranging from 1 degree to 18 degrees in the same week, I hoped that I would once again get the opportunity to visit this beautiful and picturesque lake under better conditions… but it was […]
44lb common from Villefond I’d set aside a weekend to finally get my lines wet. A group of fishermen had just left the lake a week ago with a bumper haul, including three 40lb’ers, so my enthusiasm had been re-ignited. I had picked my swim furthest from the entrance; the woodchip swim next to the […]
Bridget Keep receiving the award for Best Special Interest Tour Operator Following on from being voted Best Overseas Holiday Company by the readers of Carp Talk earlier this year we are proud to announce that Angling Lines has won the category Best Special Interest Tour Operator, awarded by the French Tourism Development Agency. These French […]
Laroussi questions from Chris Evans; Dear Shaun, I have booked to visit Laroussi from 14th August for a week. I have booked the lake on an exclusive basis but may only go with 4 anglers. I know you’ve fished Laroussi before so I wondered if you could answer a few questions for me; Could you […]
Mr Fisher has broken the lake record of the most beautiful Laroussi mirror, a stunning heavily scaled mirror called ” The Fully Scaled” at 45lb 15oz. This famous fish normally only comes out once or twice a year so it was a real surprise when it put in its second appearance in a week! Tony […]
Lake record common @ 42lb 5oz The lake record wobbled at Molyneux when the new lake record common was caught at 42lb 5oz. The huge common came from a siltly gully in front of swim 8 and was caught on a single Baitcraft T1 over a large bed of T1’s, hemp and rape seed.
New to Angling Lines in 2010, Claudette lake offers the chance to experience natural French gravel pit fishing. If you like wild & natural as opposed to carefully manicured this could be the place for you. Sam & Scott Ratcliffe have recently returned from a trip to Claudette taking over 20 fish from 18lb to […]
Laroussi is one of the best known big carp waters in France with 60lb+ carp regularly gracing the banks. New for 2010… you can now hire a chalet right at the waters edge which sleeps up to 4 anglers. For anyone who’s been to Laroussi before this chalet was the owners chalet before he built […]
63lb Hi Bridget, Just returned from a great week on Laroussi. Mehdi has the full catch report but in summary we had the following: 1 x 63lb carp (caught by me I am very happy to say J ) 5 x 50lb + carp 5 x 40lb + carp 5 x 30lb + carp 2 […]
Amanda Groves 54lb mirror Amanda Groves certainly showed her male colleagues how to fish Laroussi on a recent trip landing 3 x 50lb+ carp in 24hours! Amanda takes up the story; Arriving at this venue for the first time, we were all taken back by how lovely the lake and surroundings are. However, being the […]
Congratulations to Stuart Currie for catching the new Old Oaks lake record… a stunning 44lb 15oz common! Stuart’s party bagged 65 fish including 29 thirties! Well done guys!
63.09 Congratulations to Paul Cummins on his 71lb 12oz mirror, Patrick smith for his 63lb 9oz and Mr Sawyer for his 62lb and his wife’s 54lb! Well done too to Mr Fisher… he beats the lake record fully scaled at 45lb 15oz. I believe the smallest mirror caught since February is 34lb! Tight lines, Mehdi, […]
