Gigantica carp baiting tip – use smaller boilies

Hi Danny, Thanks for your recent e-mail.  I’m very interested in your observation regarding the biggies now may be wary of boilies.  As you say, they see a lot of 20mm baits used due to bream & maybe a change to smaller boilies would work – 16`s maybe?  As you say the bream are not […]

Feeding carp through the winter is good fishery management

  Wally, the Molyneux bailiff, explains the thinking behind his winter feeding programme; During my time at Grenville Carp Syndicate I realised just how important a carefully managed feeding programme can be. It’s vital for the carp to maintain their weights and condition to get them through the harsher weather the winter months bring. This […]

My first trip to France… any advice or tips?

Molyneux is famous for its large Grass carp Phil asks; I’m going to Molyneux for a week for the first time at the end of March.  Any advice on bait, hook lengths, pegs location, or things to take and watch out for.  Will the weather be a problem?  Any assistance greatly appreciated. . Roy Fulton […]

Swim works at Old Oaks carp lake

Between winter and summer the water level at Old Oaks goes up and down. This natural phenomenon has eroded a couple of the pegs, as mentionned by some anglers in their feedback.   We have just finished the work to repair them all. We first added first plenty of big stones to stabilize the bottom […]

A carp angler’s dream – our first impressions of Molyneux

An update of work in progress from the new Molyneux bailiffs, Wally & Helen; We arrived early on Monday morning after an easy and pleasant drive from Calais of approximately 2hours 45 mins. We pulled through the gates of Molyneux to meet Roy and were pleasantly surprised at the natural beauty of this complex. Although […]

Do I need to fish at distance to catch carp at Gigantica?

Dear Danny, I have fished in France now on several occasions on smaller lakes and having watched some of the DVD’s available regarding Gigantica I am slightly worried. Normally I like to fish the margins and do well, but in almost all the video’s regarding your venue the fish seem to be caught as far […]

New year, new beginnings for Molyneux carp lake

Molyneux – what a gorgeous lake! Clearview carp tours would like to welcome Wally & Helen as the new Molyneux staff. Wally has been a carp angler for 20 years fishing various venues across the U.K.  For the last 8 years he was a member of the well publicised Grenville Carp Syndicate in Cambridgeshire. Over […]

Winter carp fishing at Laroussi

  Mark Oakes experienced some true winter carping at Laroussi just before Christmas (w/c 26th November 2010).  As you can see from the photo above he experienced around 6 inches of snow and had to come home 2 days early because the lake froze over! Did he catch?  He sure did…. a 43lb carp & […]

The story of the capture of the carp Staples at Gigantica

You may or may not know the angler on the front cover of this year’s Angling Lines brochure. The angler holding the monster carp is Jake Langley-Hobbs, and Jake now recalls the events leading up to the capture of Staples from Gigantica. He had just picked one of his dogs up from the vets after […]

Round up of the 2010 carp fishing season at Glehias

39.07 – May 2010 With all of the Christmas and New year celebrations out of the way the next thing we look forward to here at Glehias is the start of the 2011 carp fishing season. . Firstly we would like to give a big thank you to all of our customers who visited us […]

A great first year with Angling Lines!

Notaires lake in its summer glory… 2010 was our first year with Angling Lines. We have two venues, Alder Lake and Notaire’s House and Lake, on our 75 acre estate in Creuse, in central France. And it was a great inaugural year. Notaire’s was booked for odd weeks off season, and pretty much solidly from […]

How effective are Tiger Nuts as a carp bait at Gigantica?

Hi Dan, I understand that small amounts of tigers (supplied by yourself on a daily basis) is now allowed… is this correct? Also just a question about boats;  I want to hire one and as you only have 6 (I believe), is it best to pre-book this? ************************ All particles have been allowed here at Gigantica since […]

Looking for a carp runs water?

Alan Bigot introducing one of the new stockies Following on from the introduction of the 51 lb mirror at Lillypool, the lads have gone mad and put in yet more fish in for your enjoyment. Yes, I did say more fish added to the already impressive head of carp.  This should really help guarantee even […]

More carp stocked at Villefond French carp lake

The carp arrive! Yesterday, January 12th, Villefond received an additional batch of carp from fish farmer Michel Bigot.  These fish are all young fast growing carp that will help boost the run rate still further on this prolific venue. The weight (in lb’s) of the fish that were stocked was; 5 x commons; 27, 26, 22, 21, 20, 18 14 x […]