Explore Angling Lines’ carp fishing lakes in France, with detailed guides to venues, fish stocks and recommendations.
Mark Lambert, fishery manager at Villefond, has been busy this week having welcomed a new batch of young stock in to the notorious big fish water. Certainly ones to watch for the future! Here’s Mark with a bit more information… In total we had an additional 27 carp introduced last week, all young stock average around 19.75 […]
As one of our venues that is perfectly suited to a family holiday as well as lots of fishing action, Vincons is a long standing favourite. We’ve updated the venue video using footage taken last Autumn on our annual lake visits. This beautiful spring fed 12 acre lake is available for exclusive booking for up to […]
Each year Brocard Large is drained and netted to remove small fish and check on the stocks. The scale patterns on many of the fish at Brocard Large really are something to be seen! Linears, fully scaled mirrors and big lean common carp all feature in the short video below… For more information on fishing at […]
The carp stocks at both Lillypool and Lillybelle are going from strength to strength. Both lakes are run by Richard and Martin who spent yesterday at the Bigot fish farm choosing some absolute stunners to join their existing stock. Here’s what they had to say; After another long but very enjoyable day at the Bigot fish […]
A couple of days ago we featured an article on Brocard Large, written by Mike Linstead after his September session. Here’s a fantastic wee video diary he’s put together from that trip… Read Mike’s original article here Brocard: A French Adventure. You can also see more of his articles and videos on his website www.underthesurface.co.uk, well worth checking […]
Here’s a list of the biggest fish we’ve seen this year at Laroussi. Despite really up and down weather last year that left a lot of lakes all over France fishing poorly, Laroussi’s tally of big carp remains impressive. The weights of all species show that Mehdi is continuing to do a fantastic job keeping the […]
Mike Linstead, owner of Under The Surface blog, reminisces on his summer trip to the rather impressive 39 acre Brocard Large. Well worth a read… Like most UK carp anglers I love fishing on the continent and targeting the big carp that are on offer in countries such as France and Spain. Having not fished abroad […]
We saw approx. 160 carp already residing in 15 acre Brie at the netting this year. This January however a further 30-40 carp have been added, and there’s some stunners! All the new additional fish were stocked at between 25lb and 45lb. These were sourced from La Horre North (one of the owner’s stock lakes that isn’t open for […]
Old Oaks owner Mehdi has just introduced a new catfish at Old Oaks. Here’s a note from Mehdi; It ‘s a very dark specimen weighing 55lb and measuring over 5 feet long. Also, after spending days and days in the cold water, we finally removed all the snags off the water! It was a tough […]
Mehdi is chuffed with his new young stock at Laroussi, and we would be too! Here’s a note from Mehdi now the fish have arrived; As mentioned early, we introduced new carp at Laroussi. We made a strict selection one by one to get the best quality fish as possible. Target was to find a nice […]
The Bacheliers have been busy! Here’s our round-up of the nettings and stockings so far this winter… The well respected Bachelier family own five of our venues – Jonchery, Jonchery #7, Brocard Small, Brocard Large and Brie. Whilst these venues are all unique in their own way, they also share something in common – the […]
This is the incredible story of an angler that truly earnt the capture of a 71lb mirror carp at Laroussi this November. Roy Wreatham has kindly written an account of the capture that lead to a new personal best and one that took the title of the biggest fish out this year… My son in law […]
What a cracking end to the season for Lillypool bailiff Rick. Having had a few friends at the lake for a bonfire BBQ and end of season fishing party (not to mention copious amounts of alcohol) he also had something else to celebrate with a new lake record common for himself of 47lb 1oz. Get in there! More […]
An updated venue video for Mas Bas Main Lake has been well overdue! We visited early October for four days of fishing and filming. Bridget managed two forties in an hours early morning fishing on the second day, you’ll see all this and more in the video. Like what you see? For more information on […]
We have worked with Vincons for over 10 years now and it has been the venue that many of us in the office have chosen to frequent as our ‘chilled out’ holiday destination. A 12 acre runs water, lakeside cabin, stone gite and swimming pool all sit within the grounds of the Bouchot’s family farm in central […]
An updated venue video for Lotus Lake has been well overdue! Excellent accommodation, swimming pool, specimen carp fishing – you can’t help but fall in love with this venue. We visited early October for four days of fishing and filming… The pretty Lotus Lake is the smaller of the 2 lakes on the complex and […]
Our new additions to Lillybelle arrived this week – 20, 30 and 40lb Cats. I look forward to seeing them on the bank again soon! Lillybelle is a 5.5 acre carp lake, created by carp anglers for carp anglers, and will be opening in Spring 2015. Sister lake toLillypool, Lillybelle is located in the Mayenne region and is […]
After a slow start to the year, Villefond has come bouncing back with some really great carp out on the bank. Earlier this month we had a new lake record at 59lb and now a great feedback report from Danny Parkins group; Holiday date: Sat 27th Sep to Sat 4th Oct 2014 Name of customer: […]
Huge congratulations to Stuart Lemon, who landed the Long Common from Old Oaks, at a whopping 62lb… Old Oaks is a 34 year old virgin gravel pit of around 5 acres, around 3 hours from Caen. It had never been fished before 2006, being left wild and undisturbed since it was dug. A delightfully pretty […]
Here’s the first carp going into the brand new Lillybelle lake… & what cracking carp they are! The carp were stocked on 17th December ’13. In total 104 carp were stocked, average size of mid 20’s & the largest was 31lb. Around 80% of the fish stocked were mirrors because most of the original stock […]
