Our Lakes

Inflight at Beaurepaire

An aerial flight over Beaurepaire, designed to give you a real taster of the venue’s layout and lake features. Beaurepaire has been a well kept secret by many who have fished it. It’s a beautiful natural gravel pit, just 2½ hours from Calais that’s stuffed with carp to high 40’s and catfish to 50lb+. Ideally suit […]

Life as a Bailiff – Pt 1, A Dream Come True?

Like many British carp anglers, the thought of one day living and working in France as an Owner or Bailiff on a carp fishery has never been far from the forefront of my future thoughts and aspirations. Four years ago, whilst on a fishing trip to France, I met Martin, one of the owners of […]

Structure is Shaping Up – Building the Cabin at Glehias

Glehias Carp Lake have begun work on the Floating Island Cabin in readiness of the 2014 Season, here’s this week’s update from Lee… Despite the volume of rain we have seen lately, the project is still running on schedule; there’s no better way to slow a job down with time spent covering power tools up […]

Inflight at Brie

As part of our Inflight series, here is an aerial flight over Brie, designed to give you a real taster of the lake’s layout and features.

Inflight at Old Oaks

Want to know what Old Oaks is really like? This episode is a short aerial flight over the lake, designed to give you a real taster of the lake’s layout and features.  Over the past year this lake has really proved itself and stepped in to the same big fish league as it’s sister lake […]

Annual Netting at Brocard Large

Some of you may have seen our earlier post this week documenting the netting at Jonchery, here is part two where we watched the large watery expanse that is Brocard Large drain down… Around this time in France fish farmers are in full swing managing the nettings on their many lakes. It is because of […]

Annual Netting at Jonchery

Around this time in France fish farmers are in full swing managing the nettings on their many lakes. It is because of this that Heather and I made a trip over to France this November.  We called in to visit the Bacheliers, who were going to be netting both Jonchery and Brocard Large over two […]

Nick does it again at Villefond

November 9th 2013 and Nick Johnson and Dave Proctor return to Villefond. This was Nicks forth visit to our lake, being the last booking of the season the same as the year before. On their last visit to Villefond they landed  1 x 20, 6 x 30’s to 39lb 10oz, 6 x 40’s to 47lb 8oz […]

A Start on the Walls – Building the Cabin at Glehias

Glehias have begun work on the Floating Island Cabin in readiness of the 2014 Season, here’s this week’s update from Lee… Last week we launched the cabin platform from Lagoon walk where the bank was flat and wide enough to build it. This weekend’s first job was to punt the platform framework to Blackberry Hill […]

Winter Carp Campaign at Villefond – Part 1

In this video series Mark details his 2013 winter fishing campaign at Lac Du Villefond. Find out the tactics employed on this mature big fish water right from the person that knows it best. For more information on Villefond follow the link – Carp Fishing in France

How To Get The Best Out of a Swim at Brocard

It was mid October when Jim Kelly and I visited Brocard Small lake. Small does not describe this lake correctly. It is around 29 acres, this being the  lesser acreage of two  lakes set in a huge forested area, with the larger being around 39 cares. There are approximately 350 carp in Brocard Small as […]

Glehias to Have New Lake Facilities on Floating Island

Glehias is getting an update. The plans have been drawn, the timber delivered and the hammers and saws poised to begin work on the Floating Island Cabin in readiness of the 2014 Season. The bespoke hexagonal timber Cabin will float on the tranquil waters of our coarse and stock lake – Lake William, and is […]

Old Oaks Produces

Philip Wale and his party of four had a successful week at Old Oaks on an array of baiting tactics, take a look at the review below. Mehdi was excellent, upon our arrival he showed us around the facilities and the lake then informed us how the previous few weeks had been for the fishing. […]

Brocard Small, It isn’t

Four of our field testers took over the Brocard complex for a week last month. Jim Kelly spent the week camped on Brocard Small, you can read his report below. Brocard Small isn’t, at 29 acres, that small. It is a fairly large lake and with just 4 swims there is plenty of water to […]

The Key To Fishing Laroussi

An update from Mehdi on the trials and tribulations of  the last few weeks at Laroussi. Anthony, fishing Laroussi this week, had a big problem after arriving on Saturday. His daughter accidently locked the van with the keys inside. With all his gear now locked inside that made it impossible to set up and fish! I […]

Nice And Easy Does It

Below is field tester Shaun Harrison’s review of last week’s trip to Brocard Large… The flames of a soothing fire are flickering away taking the slight chill away from what was an empty house last week. It is the first time I have had to light it this autumn but I guess I have finally […]

Brocard Large – Updated Video

Two of our field testers, Shaun Harrison and Ron Key, travelled down to Brocard Large last week. Our camera man Martin met them there and filmed some of their captures and thoughts on the venue.  You can also view their full catch reports here. For more information on Brocard Large follow the link – Carp […]

Team Richworth Bulgaria visit Vaumigny

Bulgaria’s Team Richworth recently came over to France to fish Vaumigny, as part of an upcoming film for HobiTV. You can read their behind the scenes article here. It’s in Bulgarian but Google kindly asks if you would like it translating. For more information on Vaumigny follow the link – Fishing France

Bumper Catch at Lillypool

A bumper catch week for Stuart, Jamie and Darren last week at Lillypool. Details of your catches: Darren had 33 carp to 40lb 8oz. Stuart had 24 carp to 40lb 14oz. Jamie had 25 carp to 30lb 2oz. Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Heavy baiting. Were the facilities what you expected? Yes, epic shower, the lodge was brilliant! General comments: We […]