Our Lakes

Explore Angling Lines’ carp fishing lakes in France, with detailed guides to venues, fish stocks and recommendations.

Great Boux carp session

Paul Cooper & Paul Brookes recently (w/c 1st Oct 2011) enjoyed a great session at Boux taking 33 carp including 7 x 40’s (to 46lb 9oz) & 8 x 30’s. In this clip we see carp on the bank to 45lb (common) plus a look at Paul’s successful rig.

61lb mirror is the reward for a hard week at Laroussi

Roy Van Goor landed this magnificent 61lb mirror at Laroussi on 23rd September 2011. Here’s his comments; “It was another hard week with just several sturgeon, grasscarp & 1 small common untill Friday morning.  Then my luck changed and carp of 22, 39 and 61 lb were banked in a few hours.  A new pb […]

Record week at Lillypool – 85 carp

Andy, Dave, Mark & Tony arrived at Lillypool on Sept 12th 2012 on a mission… to break the lake catch record of 80 carp for the week set in April 2012. And break it they did taking 85 carp from 19 to 36lb, including new p.b for Dave and a 36lb common for Andy. In […]

Boux is back!

Boux is Back! After an absence of 3 years from our books we’re delighted to announce that from 2012 we’ve been appointed as the sole booking agents for Boux. As many of you will know, Boux has had reputation for producing large carp since the 1980’s with many famous anglers having visited its banks. That […]

Good week at Villefond with 7 x 40lb+ carp

Villefond continues to return really good catches of big carp… we really think it’s one to watch for the future. Mr Bachelor’s party (w/c 3rd Sept) had 29 carp; *   Arnold at 47lb 5oz *   Bennets at 45lb 6oz, *   5 other 40’s, *   15 x high 30’s *   and 7 x 20lber’s Pretty good […]

Is Vincons the best bagging up water in France?

Jon playing yet another Vincons carp… Without doubt our most prolific venue is Vincons.  If you want to catch lots of carp that’s the place to go.  Here’s a bit more evivdence to support that claim; Jon & Larry fished Vincons w/c 6th August and had 79 carp in total up to 29lbs 7oz. Average size […]

Is this the biggest catch of carp ever on Laroussi?

Dan Burke & his mates booked Laroussi exclusive w/c 3rd Sept & had a fantastic catch.  Over to Dan; ” We had 99 fish in total!!! 40 carp up to 63.08 which was a new personal best for the angler…. 5 x 50’s, biggest 58.8 which I caught. My dad had a 50.2 which was is […]

Breaking More Records In The Army

The Army boys all from the 2nd Britalian Royal Welsh, based in  Tideworth, make their assult on Lillypool week commencing 6 August 2011 breaking new records with a total of 106 runs and 81 fish landed to 44lbs with a new PB for Paul Thomas. Well done lads. Keep up the good work for pleasure […]

Happy Summer Days at Mas Bas

Happy Summer Days at Mas Bas by Bridget Dawson I’d like to say that the day started early but in fact due to time constraints with the tunnel crossing it started for us around 5pm as we dropped off the dogs in Chesterfield and headed south to pick up our friends. We had chosen the tunnel crossing […]

Father & son share mega carp catch Lillypool

Father & son, Dave & James, experienced some prolific fishing at Lillypool, w/c 11th June 2011.  By the time our cameraman joined them on the Thursday they’d caught 64 carp.  In this short clip we share some of the action, plus get an insight into the tactics they used.

Father & son enjoy great Laroussi carp session

54lb & 32lb for father & son, Paul & Peter Mersh Paul & Peter Mersh enjoyed a fabulous Laroussi session (w/c 14th May) taking; Paul : 60lb 2oz carp ,22lb carp, 30lb carp, 16lb carp, 33lb carp, 43lb carp, 54lb carp , 36lb mirror, 40lb 3oz carp. Two sturgeon 57lb, 56lb 26lb grass – PLUS […]

Laroussi latest stocking news!

There is a new addition at Laroussi and it’s a little smaller than the usual leviathan residents! No it’s not a carp, nor indeed one of Mehdi’s giant vegetable, but Caroline has given birth to a beautiful healthy baby boy, weighing in at just over 9lb. Mehdi says he simply could not be happier at […]