Explore Angling Lines’ carp fishing lakes in France, with detailed guides to venues, fish stocks and recommendations.
Graham Ball’s group were out at Beaurepaire last week. Here’s a quick round up of their catches… Details of your catches: Mirrors of 19, 21, 24, 28, 31, 31, 39, 40. Commons of 5lb, 15lb, 17lb’s and a couple of bream. Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Water level was up about 2 meters and this alone made the fishing hard. […]
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 […]
Liam Whalley’s group visited Villefond in February and out of the nine carp caught, 6 of those were 40+, including the two beautiful big commons below.
My fish of the month for March is not the biggest fish in the lake by any stretch but was still a special capture. So what makes the capture of a 35lb 10oz mirror in a lake full of 40’s and 50’s worthy of the title fish of the month? Well a few things; firstly […]
‘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
Spring seems to have finally sprung at Mas Bas. The weather has been absolutely atrocious over the past couple of months. We have had rain virtually every day and Gilles has impatiently been waiting for the opportunity to drain down the main lake and remove all the surplus grass carp which have become more and […]
We have just had an update from Bernard at the lake. After a really cold winter including snow up to this week, the weather finally looks to start getting milder from now on. The heavy rains over the winter period and the snow mean that we begin the season with high water levels with the […]
Blue Lake Owner Sebastien has just confirmed there is now a 300 litre freezer and a large fridge on site at Blue Lake . Plus there are a few spare plug points and some kind angler has left 2 UK plug adaptors at the venue. Can’t guarantee some not-so-kind angler will remove these though, so […]
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 […]
Arthur at 55.04 Winter Review Lake Manager Mark Lambert has taken full advantage of the quiet winter period here at Villefond to test out the new tweaks and flavours made in the house bait range which includes the new plum nut bait which has already had great results. Fishing just short sessions through out the […]
Lac Du Villefond‘s Arthur at a Massive 55lb 4oz caught by Mark Lambert on 30/01/2013. Mark used a 16mm pop up on a size 8 curve shank hook over a bed of 16mm venue sold boilies. You can read the story here. Carp Fishing in France at Villefond
42lb mirror falls to the new Villefond 2013 bait The 2012 season saw the Villefond bait range really excel and it definitely landed more fish than any other bait. Every winter I feed the fish with a new flavour boilie and ever improving quality bait. I choose new flavours because over the year the fish […]
Arthur @ 54.07 (Oct 2012) 2012 has once again been a great year for the lake and for meeting some great guys and great anglers. The lake was once again pretty solidly booked and saw lots of characters on the bank breaking personal bests and enjoying their break from work, all trying to catch one […]
Stephen Knight fished Old Oaks w/c Sat 1st Dec. Fishing was hard & he only had one carp all week… but surely caught in one of the most unconventional methods – on a lure! Over to Stephen to explain; “Fishing was hard as we had some bad frost’s, down to -6c. There were still fish […]
It was too cold to fish for carp at Laroussi, so Mehdi went for the perch instead… & here’s the two he caught. Both around 17 inches long, he calls them “The Twins”. Merry Christmas!
Measels at 44.04 Saturday 17th November; I arrived at Villefond just as the sun was rising which at this time of year is about 8am. By 9am I had all three rods in the water. My left rod was a small piece of meat on the bottom, my middle rod was a cut down […]
Well winter is well and truly upon us here at Villefond! The weather has been horrid with heavy winds, extraordinary amounts of rain and now towards the end of the month the cold weather has moved in. That said the big fish have been feeding well to those who have braved the elements and November […]
Congratulations to Ryan Fasson for breaking the lake record mirror at Old Oaks with a 57lb 8oz stunner! Ryan landed 5 fish – 30lb, 34.5lb, 35.6lb, 39.4lb and the the new record 57.8lb. The Long Common is still uncaught…. fingers X’d she comes out soon! Tight Lines, Mehdi Carp France at Old Oaks
The Long Two Tone at 47.12 24hrs at Lac Du Villefond, 7/11/12 by fisheries manager, Mark Lambert Wednesday the 7th of November 2012 was the start of my 24 hour session on my lake Villefond . I had my tent set up from a previous session the week before so after a quick setup of […]
The second largest common in Old Oaks has just come out at a new record weight of 53lb 9oz ! This fish was caught a month ago at 48lb so it’s really been on the munch! Makes you wonder what the weight of the long common, caught the last time at 61lb 4oz, will be […]
