Mas Bas carp lake – video of Lotus Cottage
A customer shot video of Mas Bas Lotus Cottage (August 2011)
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Video of an October 2010 Boux session
YouTube video of an October 2010 Boux session;
We welcome 2 new carp at Mas Bas
This week the Main Lake at Mas Bas welcomed two new arrivals, a lovely 25lb mirror and a very pretty 17lb 8oz red carp. Lets hope they both settle in well to add even more excitement to next seasons fishing.
October carp session at Mas Bas
Sander Beijderwellen’s Oct 2011 session at Mas Bas. This is part 1 – you can watch all 4 videos here.
The big willow at Mas Bas gets a haircut!
With the temperature still up around 20° in the afternoon, the south west remains the warmest area of France. Making the most of this Indian summer Gilles decided to tackle a big outside job here at Mas Bas and called in Ivan the tree ‘hairdresser’. He definitely made his mark on the trees around willow […]
Customer shot video of a 2011 Mas Bas session
The Rangers Fishing Team explain their approach to their 2011 Mas Bas session;
French carping video – a session on Old Oaks
A Quest Baits video of Shaun Harrison’s session on Old Oaks.
Success comes from confidence in your bait
No matter how good an angler you are or how poor, if you have no confidence or have lost that confidence in your bait you are bound to fail. On a recent carp fishing trip to Boux, Jim Kelly and I were both armed with our confidence booster, Quality Baits HG42. With each of us […]
Over 1 ton of carp stocked into Blue Lake – Nov ’11
After a short delay caused by the indian summer, Blue Lake‘s major stocking programme is under way. A total weight of carp of 2,500lb including 33 x 30’s and 52 x 20’s is added to the existing stock. 86 carp in all with an average weight of just over 29lb. And that’s not all………..There’s another […]
Laroussi session produces 3 carp over 50lb – biggest 69.06
Mike Dagnall has just experienced a fantastic week (w/c 29th Oct ’11) on Laroussi taking 21 carp, the biggest 3 being; * 69.06 * 55.08 * 53.00 He also had 3 sturgeon @ 52, 56 & 62. Quite a session!
Boux carp lake – an update
Jim Kelly with a fine 31lb Boux common Paul Cooper and I had a week booked on Boux during the end of October. It was to be my first trip to the venue; Paul had fished it on two previous occasions. On arriving at the lake I was not disappointed as it is situated in […]
2 x 50lb+ mirror carp from Boux
49.14 Here’s Paul Cooper’s results from his Boux session w/c 22nd Oct 2011; 27 carp which incuded mirrors of 51lb 11oz, 50lb 4oz, 49lb 14oz, 49lb 3oz, 31lb 12oz, 34lb 8oz, 35lb 15oz, 31lb 10oz, 36lb 10oz, 31lb 3oz, 31lb 1oz, 33lb 1oz and 30lb 1oz, one 30lb common with the rest being mostly upper twenties. Here’s his […]
50lb 10oz mirror carp from Villefond
Villefond saw its first 50lb mirror grace the banks with a fish called Arnold at 50lb 10 oz, caught 26th Oct 2011. This makes a total of 3 different 50lb fish to come out this year!
Mas Bas review by The Rangers Fishing Team
After months of planning and preparation it was finally time for me (Steve) to head from Manchester to Bristol to pick up the others. On arrival at Bristol I picked up Andrew (Angler) and Kerry (non-angler) and spent the night at James’ to get a fresh start to head to Dover first thing in the […]
Paul bags his second 50lb+ carp of the week at Boux!
46.09 – one of Paul’s carp from a session on Boux earlier this month Paul Cooper is fishing Boux this week & having a great session. We’ve just heard he’s bagged his second 50 of the week at 50lb 11oz. So far (Friday morning, Oct 28th) he’s had 27 fish, including; * 2 x 50’s * […]
Return to Boux Carp Lake – Field Testing Tales
Being a lake tester for Angling Lines does have its advantages; one has to be the chance of a return visit to one of the best venues in France, Domain de Boux. I had previously visited Boux in June this year along with Ron Key, and despite a hard week we still managed fish to […]
Laroussi carp lake – 2012 venue video
Here’s the 2012 Laroussi video;
Laroussi tench is confirmed as new world record
15.03 Tench It’s now official that the 15.03 Tench caught at Laroussi by Janet Johnson in July is the new French record. If you can read French here’s an article on it; https://www.anglinglines.com/img/upload/press/Laroussi_-_Record_Tench.pdf
Swim videos added for Blue Lake
Very short clips of the swims at Blue Lake (shot by Bridget) have been added to the Website; https://www.anglinglines.com/venue/blue-lake/gallery/venue-videos Here’s an example;
A new carp lake is born
When Sebastian Vasseur my local fish farmer contacted me at the start of the year to a ask if I thought Angling Lines would be interested in a new lake I said yes at once… I have seen Sebastian’s other lakes and I knew this could be a real find. He came round to our home […]
