Mehdi, the owner of renowned big fish waters Old Oaks and Laroussi, fills us in on the latest from the lake… Despite the very hot summer Old Oaks has produced constant good fishing, but last week has been awesome! Neil Martin’s party had a crazy time catching 48 fish in total with 17 forties and […]
We recently came across these photos taken at Vaumigny…
I have spent a lot of time this season fishing very short sessions on the river for barbel and some of these evenings in real over grown swims have seen swarms of mozzies and midges all wanting a bit of the Harrison blood. Now I am quite attached to my blood and don’t really want […]
It’s 5am on Saturday morning following a week’s fishing on Brie. The air is heavy and sticky and Jim gets a single bleep on his right hand rod. He’s out of his sleeping bag and standing by his rods, a second bleep and he is into the fish, a magnificent 43lb specimen. By the time […]
Tom and Jake Carling, along with friends Simon Dew and Jack Bonner fished Boux for a week this month, coming away with some stunners… Details of your catches: 12 fish to 45lb 10 oz. 10 mirrors, 2 commons. Your best tactics/bait/rigs: 9 of the 12 fish were caught fishing from the right hand side of the wooded […]
Gary Rivett fished Beaurepaire last week with his mate Steve & had 35 carp, including a PB mirror for Steve at 31-10, a PB grassy for Gary at 34-04 & other mirrors to 40-09… Gary also landed this lake record cat with the Reuben Heatons thumping down to the stop at 67-12; among other cats to 48-10. […]
Notaires provides the perfect balance for a family angling holiday, here’s why James Geeson thinks so… General Comments: We stayed as a family of 5 with Chris and Steph for a week in mid july and had a wonderful time. Our 3 boys enjoyed the swimming pool and the animals as well as the wi-fi! […]
Anglers being anglers we often find ourselves complaining about the weather. Be it too bright, too hot, too cold, too windy, too wet and so on. But, to be fair hot weather conditions might not be conducive to heavy feeding at the moment but they are absolutely perfect for taking full advantage of in two ways. […]
We have recently introduced an online payment facility… There’s lots of useful features; for example as a lead booker you can allocate amounts to individuals in your group so they can pay their share online too. The idea is to make our payment process as user friendly as possible. This video shows you how it […]
A new article from Ron Key, one of our expert field testers… As an Angling Lines field tester it’s always exciting visiting a new water but when it’s called Jonchery there’s added excitement and anticipation. I remember Jonchery; its history and its reputation for quality carp from way back in the nineties and now there’s […]
Carl Sharp was out at Laroussi this month, here are his comments on the lake… “It is very much an ‘english style’ lake, it’s not your general overly stocked french water full of hungry pigs so you really need to work at your angling as opposed to just ‘chucking and chancing’. It is a gorgeous place […]
Anthony Brown fishing the week of 6th July here at Genets discovered just how important it is to have a current European Health Insurance Card (EHIC ) with you when fishing in France. On Wednesday morning while threading a dumbbell boilie with a long barbed baiting needle the needle went into the end of his finger, […]
Here’s some feedback from Royston Butwell after a trip to Laroussi this month… Details of your groups catches: 57lb 8oz mirror, 40lb 6oz mirror, 55lb 2oz sturgeon, 37lb mirror, 46lb 08oz mirror (3rd fish out on a zig ever), 17lb common, 18lb common. Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Zigs, little and often approach, fish would not respond to larger beds […]
We often see photos popping up from our venues of some stunning Koi, here’s a round up of the best we’ve seen so far…
If you are looking for serious waters that contains a large average size of carp in natural surroundings, then these could be the lakes for you… The Brocard lakes are situated within picturesque woodlands in the Champagne region of France, created and run by the prominent fish farming Bachelier family. The complex consists of 2 lakes, […]
We have had some real monster fish out of Villefond recently… First up is a new lake record Mirror at 55lb, a fish we believe to be Arnold. Bennetts the fish has been out at 54lb and we have had a new member to the 50lb club! A fish called slate grey was caught at […]
Foreign drivers can no longer escape having to pay fines for speeding and other motoring offences in France – which could mean a €15million bonus for the state’s coffers. Senators have backed a move to bring France in line with an EU decree and it now goes for final parliamentary approval before coming into force […]
Its the last week in May of 2013 and Ron Key and I are off to test yet another new lake for Angling Lines, Vaumigny… Vaumigny lake is 37 acres and set in a beautiful country location to the South West of Paris. Totally surrounded by overhanging trees and woodland the lake has a very […]
Lac Du Villefond has been fishing really well recently and with a gap in the bookings I decided to take the opportunity to spend some time catching the monsters that swim our waters… I wasn’t able to fish a whole week so I decided I would at least pre-bait for a few days on the […]
May has been a mad month at Old Oaks with plenty of big fish, here’s the round up below… Earlier in April, Des Chapman landed 3 fifties up to 54lb, almost in a row, with a plenty of forties and high thirties. Andrew Hooper’s team had a super week with 33 fish including the Long […]
