During the week commencing 18th May at Sapphire we received this short message from Jake Watkins, fishing on his own at the dam wall end… “Fish everywhere up this end. Wind really blowing. 58lb 12 oz mirror. 5 fish in first 24 hours! – fingers crossed” Well done Jake – that’s smashed the lake record […]
The fishing has well and truly warmed up along with the weather at both Laroussi and Old Oaks. The 3 biggest resident commons at the lakes have been caught… and all in the same day! The ‘Long Common’ at 59lb and the ‘Pizza Common’ at 52lb in Old Oaks and a 50lb 2oz in Laroussi. Will […]
Jake Watkins knows a thing or two about fish. It’s one of the specialities in his own Michelin star JSW restaurant… When it comes to catching them, he’s somewhat of a specialist too. His 3 x 50’s included the lake record 58lb 12oz mirror at Sapphire and his total haul of 31 carp included 8 […]
Scott Fry was out at Boux this month coming away with 28 carp including these two cracking 52lb’ers, here’s a round-up of his feedback… Details of your catches: 28 carp caught with two 52’s(common and mirror), seven 40’s, fourteen 30’s and five 20’s including the bright orange koi. Your best tactics: Few caught on singles cast to showing […]
Gary Western has kindly sent us these top-notch pictures from his trip to Boux last week, it’s certainly fishing well coming in to summer! The 14 acre carp lake is situated on the eastern edge of the stunning Morvan Regional Nature Park, sitting in a valley with rolling fields to one side and dense woodland […]
Roy van Goor is a Laroussi regular, having landed a 61lb mirror on a previous trip, he returned for more this May. Roy has kindly provided us with a great write up of his recent trip to the lake and the capture of the 62lb ‘Le Grand Male’… Big fish on the feed After […]
In March we stocked two new 50’s here at Mas Bas and it certainly hasn’t taken long for one of them to make an appearance for our anglers. Franck Consato was the clever/lucky angler to land one of the mirrors this week at 53lb 2oz! For more information, videos and feedback on Mas Bas follow […]
What a cracking photo! We received this from Curtis Todd, who fished Old Oaks recently and caught this big scaled mirror at 44lb 6oz. For more information, photo’s, feedback and articles on Old Oaks follow the link – Carp France
After a long and cold winter, spring is finally here. In fact, we had the wettest winter in France for 20 years! Fishing has been slow but things are better and better now with the warmer temperatures. Forties, fifties and sixties have been landed so far. Last week, a special fish came out. Mr Diment’s […]
The Notaires Lakes are located deep in the French countryside in the region known as the green heart of France. Your accommodation for the week is a renovated 200 year old Limousin stone built farmhouse with a swimming pool overlooking the carp lake. Peace and quiet are guaranteed. The fish stocks have been added in stages to […]
Still looking for a family friendly venue in summer? Consider ‘Glehias‘ Great for families (limited space still available in school holidays) & 1 hour from Beaches. Great for groups of 1 to 4 anglers, with the luxury of having the lake exclusively to yourselves. Traditional 3 bedroomed french farmhouse, with all the mod-cons Home-cooked meals available […]
It was the end of March and Jim Kelly and I were about to take on our first field testing trip of 2013. We were off to Northern France to fish a lake on a trial for Angling Lines. With these first exploratory trips on a new lake, our purpose is to provide feedback to both […]
Michael Battenbough’s group came away from Villefond last week having caught; 2×50’s 13×40’s 7×30’s and 2×20’s. General comments: Very warm welcome received, lovely lake with some seriously big fish, not for the faint hearted. Your best tactics/bait/rigs: House bait, pop-ups or bottom bait plum nut. Follow the link for more information on Villefond – Carp Fishing in […]
We’ve just heard that Sapphire angler Austin Reade has banked another lake record carp this week. He already holds the record for the biggest carp with a 54lb 4oz common he caught exactly a year ago. His latest catch is a lake record mirror at 53lb 10oz caught on the 4th April. For more information […]
We have been sorting through the photos received from anglers towards the end of our 2012 season at Vaux, comparing them with previous photos in our file, and are very pleased to say that we have another new 40lb-er to report. Martin Williams came on a fishing holiday with us and landed a mirror of 46lb12oz in […]
‘Mr Sixty’ Wayne Naylor has bagged half a page in the new Carp-Talk for the 67lb Mirror caught at Laroussi in February this year. For more information on Laroussi follow the link – Carp Fishing in France
The fire that caused the damage to the Mathilde Bridge in Rouen Hi All, Having just returned from the UK we discovered that there are major road works on ‘Pont Mathilde’ (Mathilde Bridge) in Rouen which is used by the majority of the Sat Nav systems. Given that we didn’t know about this in advance, we […]
Readers Question; Is it true the French Government have decided to postpone the need to have a breathalyser for now? Below is the information received from the ACF (Automobile Club de France):From the 1st July 2012 a new sanction was enforced, in France, obliging every driver to carry an unused breathalyser kit in their vehicles.Drivers that […]
You’ve booked the perfect holiday – but will you get there? I can’t begin to tell you how much I hate this topic! But once again I feel it really necessary to get this message out there. This is not a sales tactic and I have to admit I have an inherent dislike of insurance […]
Huge congratulations to Steve Knight! He was the last angler on both Laroussi and Old Oaks & caught the last carp of the 2012 season (mid December). Steve, loving the challenge, came back early February 2013 on Laroussi to try to seduce the first carp of the year and he did it with […]
