Jul 2014

Spawning Update, 7th Jul

The last month on Lac Du villefond has been a really bad one. The weather has been so unpredictable with heat spells then cold and rainy spells it has really messed up the spawning of our fish. They didnt know if they were coming or going and as a result the fishing has suffered with some weeks the carp not feeding the others they have been feeding but cautiously.

This has made for some bad catch reports and some throwing of toys from prams but the light is at the end of the tunnel. Finally the fish have finished spawning with one of our known carp being landed , Dorian - normally a 47lb mirror. She is known to spawn heavily and has indeed this time coming out nearly 10lbs lighter at 38lb and with wounds from spawning on her flanks! Unfortunatley we didnt get pictures from last week but this is a great sign that spawning has finally ended and the signs all point to the fish returning to feeding to get there wieght back on.

We did so well over winter with our feeding campaign of the nutriously great house bait keeping our winter loses of carp down to just one small 20lb fish. However spawning saw us lose two fish - one un-named mirror of 45lb and a known fish Micks mirror who was one of the many fish about to turn to 50lb, last out at 49lb.

Its a shame to lose such nice big fish but unfortunately in Villefond there are so many big fish that if a fish dies its going to be a big one. Now finally with the stressful spawning (for both us and the fish!) done we can look forward to seeing some known fish on the bank again.  

Merci
Mark

May 2014

Another new article on Villefond: 'Inside Information - Picking your swim', 6th May

Mark Lambert explains how, as Villefond grew from an average lake into the big fish water we have today, an unforeseen perk of the job appeared.

You can read the article here

Apr 2014

Villefonds New lake record, 27th Apr

Arnold our biggest resident male and one of the top 3 biggest fish in the lake has finally been caught again and has now broken the lake record at a massive 57lb 4oz!!

Not only that but on the same week to the same angler two more different 50's were landed!! Few lakes have one 50 let alone the 8 different ones Villefond has, no lake matches our average.

Have a look at this for a catch report for just one angler;

40lb 15oz
43lb 'son of max'  
49lb 2oz 'Micks mirror' 
49lb 8oz  
51lb 5oz 'The long two tone' (her first time over 50lb as predicted)
52lb 8oz 'Slate grey'
57lb 4oz 'Arnold'.

An amazing week by anyones standard but the full catch report isn't in yet as on the last night more were caught, we haven't received word of those yet as the angler left very early saturday morning.