Nick Cooper, on his third trip to Glehias, landed this stunning 37lb common last week. Here’s the feedback from his trip below… Holiday date: Sat 28th Mar to Sat 4th Apr 2015 Name of customer: Nick Cooper Number of anglers: 3 Details of your catches: 37.4 Common, 34.5 Mirror, 30.3 Mirror, 36.4 Common, 28.4 Mirror, 28.2 […]
Rob Inns talks about those difficult winter carp fishing sessions and how he spotted an opportunity to improve his catch rate at Villefond this winter… Hi guys it’s been a while since I’ve written anything for the blog so do forgive me if I’m a bit rusty. I wanted to write a small piece on those tough sessions […]
Here’s the latest feedback from Brie. The first week in March turned out to be extremely testing conditions for Ron Key and Dean Randle, who still managed some absolutely stunning carp by the end of the week… Holiday date: Sat 28th Feb to Sat 7th Mar 2015 Name of customer: Ron Key & Dean Randle Number of […]
Paul Cooper shares his advice to those of you travelling to venues located further down in to France… Travelling to France can be a tedious affair. Especially with venues further down the country, lakes such as Mas Bas or Holly Pools, where you enjoy the warmer southern climate. With a long tiring journey more often than not you […]
Both Jonchery and Brocard Large have some space available this March so if you fancy nipping over the channel then take advantage of this offer for the weeks commencing 14th & 21st March. These two lakes have an excellent reputation for seriously good French carp fishing and are home to carp to well over 50lb. Last week […]
Angling Lines field-tester Paul Cooper answers an anglers questions regarding the features and lake depths for each swim at Blue Lake. The lake is a 15 acre gravel pit and varies from 3ft at its shallowest to over 15ft at its South West end. It’s a fascinating mixture of bars and areas of sand, rocks, gravel, […]
Mark Lambert, fishery manager at Villefond, has been busy this week having welcomed a new batch of young stock in to the notorious big fish water. Certainly ones to watch for the future! Here’s Mark with a bit more information… In total we had an additional 27 carp introduced last week, all young stock average around 19.75 […]
As one of our venues that is perfectly suited to a family holiday as well as lots of fishing action, Vincons is a long standing favourite. We’ve updated the venue video using footage taken last Autumn on our annual lake visits. This beautiful spring fed 12 acre lake is available for exclusive booking for up to […]
Each year Brocard Large is drained and netted to remove small fish and check on the stocks. The scale patterns on many of the fish at Brocard Large really are something to be seen! Linears, fully scaled mirrors and big lean common carp all feature in the short video below… For more information on fishing at […]
The carp stocks at both Lillypool and Lillybelle are going from strength to strength. Both lakes are run by Richard and Martin who spent yesterday at the Bigot fish farm choosing some absolute stunners to join their existing stock. Here’s what they had to say; After another long but very enjoyable day at the Bigot fish […]
A couple of days ago we featured an article on Brocard Large, written by Mike Linstead after his September session. Here’s a fantastic wee video diary he’s put together from that trip… Read Mike’s original article here Brocard: A French Adventure. You can also see more of his articles and videos on his website www.underthesurface.co.uk, well worth checking […]
Here’s a list of the biggest fish we’ve seen this year at Laroussi. Despite really up and down weather last year that left a lot of lakes all over France fishing poorly, Laroussi’s tally of big carp remains impressive. The weights of all species show that Mehdi is continuing to do a fantastic job keeping the […]
Mike Linstead, owner of Under The Surface blog, reminisces on his summer trip to the rather impressive 39 acre Brocard Large. Well worth a read… Like most UK carp anglers I love fishing on the continent and targeting the big carp that are on offer in countries such as France and Spain. Having not fished abroad […]
We saw approx. 160 carp already residing in 15 acre Brie at the netting this year. This January however a further 30-40 carp have been added, and there’s some stunners! All the new additional fish were stocked at between 25lb and 45lb. These were sourced from La Horre North (one of the owner’s stock lakes that isn’t open for […]
Old Oaks owner Mehdi has just introduced a new catfish at Old Oaks. Here’s a note from Mehdi; It ‘s a very dark specimen weighing 55lb and measuring over 5 feet long. Also, after spending days and days in the cold water, we finally removed all the snags off the water! It was a tough […]
Mehdi is chuffed with his new young stock at Laroussi, and we would be too! Here’s a note from Mehdi now the fish have arrived; As mentioned early, we introduced new carp at Laroussi. We made a strict selection one by one to get the best quality fish as possible. Target was to find a nice […]
The Bacheliers have been busy! Here’s our round-up of the nettings and stockings so far this winter… The well respected Bachelier family own five of our venues – Jonchery, Jonchery #7, Brocard Small, Brocard Large and Brie. Whilst these venues are all unique in their own way, they also share something in common – the […]
This is the incredible story of an angler that truly earnt the capture of a 71lb mirror carp at Laroussi this November. Roy Wreatham has kindly written an account of the capture that lead to a new personal best and one that took the title of the biggest fish out this year… My son in law […]
The Crane fishing party have held records for both Alder and Notaires previously and have reclaimed the record for Notaires with Jon Vary’s 46lb 8oz mirror on their 5th annual visit… Jon reported:- “I ended up with 750 lbs for the week it consisted of 16 20’s most of which were just under 30. I […]
What a cracking end to the season for Lillypool bailiff Rick. Having had a few friends at the lake for a bonfire BBQ and end of season fishing party (not to mention copious amounts of alcohol) he also had something else to celebrate with a new lake record common for himself of 47lb 1oz. Get in there! More […]
