Laroussi is one of the best known big carp waters in France with 60lb+ carp regularly gracing the banks. New for 2010… you can now hire a chalet right at the waters edge which sleeps up to 4 anglers. For anyone who’s been to Laroussi before this chalet was the owners chalet before he built […]
63lb Hi Bridget, Just returned from a great week on Laroussi. Mehdi has the full catch report but in summary we had the following: 1 x 63lb carp (caught by me I am very happy to say J ) 5 x 50lb + carp 5 x 40lb + carp 5 x 30lb + carp 2 […]
Amanda Groves 54lb mirror Amanda Groves certainly showed her male colleagues how to fish Laroussi on a recent trip landing 3 x 50lb+ carp in 24hours! Amanda takes up the story; Arriving at this venue for the first time, we were all taken back by how lovely the lake and surroundings are. However, being the […]
Congratulations to Stuart Currie for catching the new Old Oaks lake record… a stunning 44lb 15oz common! Stuart’s party bagged 65 fish including 29 thirties! Well done guys!
63.09 Congratulations to Paul Cummins on his 71lb 12oz mirror, Patrick smith for his 63lb 9oz and Mr Sawyer for his 62lb and his wife’s 54lb! Well done too to Mr Fisher… he beats the lake record fully scaled at 45lb 15oz. I believe the smallest mirror caught since February is 34lb! Tight lines, Mehdi, […]
Based on my own fishing & observing guest anglers anglers here at Villefond the first thing I would say is it’s not an overly hard water and most tactics work. From experienced anglers, to some who would admit freely themselves they are not experts, have all done well! There are a few tips that seem […]
Having had Genets netted recently I thought I would put together a few words from my own point of view on the importance as part of ongoing fishery management to carrying out regular netting. We first had the lake netted in Oct 2006 to remove the bulk of the silverfish when nearly a ton & […]
38lb 8oz Gary Webb, whilst on work experience from Hadlow colledge, managed to fit in a few nights fishing and caught new lake record Grass carp of 38lb 8oz at Molyneux. The huge grassy was caught from peg 12 on Baitcraft T1 fished over a large bed of T1’s, maize and hemp.
71lb 12oz Laroussi Mirror The early weeks of the season always produce big fish at Laroussi & 2010 was no different. The lucky angler this time was Paul Cummings, 44, from Stoke on Trent, who took this magnificent mirror of 71lb 12oz. It was caught from Le Chene peg at 10.20pm on Thursday, 1st April. […]
My father and me are thinking of fishing Gigantica in October. I have seen some reviews that say the fish move further out into deeper water and that most fish are caught more than 100 yards out. If this is the case can you use bait boats or can you row your baits out. Any […]
By Andrew at Molyneux lake; I often get asked about bait but I was a bit hesitant to write a piece about it in case people thought they could gain an ‘edge’ by doing the opposite of what I advise, but here’s what I’ve found at Molyneux. Of course every lake varies, but these are […]
October 2009 Danny Fairbrass lands Gigantica’s largest resident – the Giant at 72lb. He’d already had several 40’s and a 50 before catching the Giant on his final night. Just look at the size of this magnificent creature!
March 1st, 2010 The aim of this years re stocking at Mas Bas was to increase the numbers of 30’s. Gilles went up to the fish farmer at La Brenne in the west of France and picked 21 beautiful mirror carp, all between 30 and 35lb. As you can see from the photos they are […]
Here’s the short video clip of the recent additional stocking at Lillypool. To recap; on 18th December 2009 a further 55 carp were stocked. Six of the fish were just under 20lbs with the rest ranging from 20 to 30lb, the average weight being 24lb 10oz, and the biggest being 29lb 5oz with two lovely commons […]
You would expect lakes and carp on your fishing holiday. You might even expect some nice countryside, but would you expect to find llamas and alpacas on a 75-acre estate? Well, you will at the Notaires House and lakes in Limousin. We trek our gentle, majestic animals around our woods and fields. This caused such […]
Continuing our series of posts from lake owners detailing their experiences of moving to France & buying a carp lake here’s a post from Andrew, the owner of Molyneux ; Learning French Maybe a strange topic for venue management but if you’re living in France it’s goes without saying how important it is speak the […]
This winter at Villefond is going to be a very busy time for us… here’s a brief outline of some of the improvements we will be making; * we are implementing a winter feeding program which we’ll increase as spring rolls around so that the excellent growth rates we’ve seen to date continue * […]
With all this gloomy weather about we thought we’d point you to an article which we’ve just received from Rob Allen. He fished Villefond & had a cracking session back in the hazy days of summer. Here’s an extract from his article; A few hours quickly passed with no sign of fish or takes so […]
Taken from Carp-Talk Xtra So why on earth do we have a picture of the new (1,457lb) World Record pumpkin in this week’s Carp-Talk Xtra? Well firstly it was grown by Mehdi Daho who is the owner of the popular Angling Lines venues Old Oaks & Laroussi and secondly he decided to put the outer […]
Following on from the 33 grass carp stocked in September 2009, Santa came and emptied his sack early at Lillypool in the form of Michel and Laurent Bigot and their fish farming team. On 18th December 2009 a further 55 carp were stocked, slightly more than was promised but we just couldn’t resist as they […]
