Apr 2014

Facilities Upgrade, 4th Apr

Fantastic news for any anglers coming out to the venue, we have proper shower/toilet facilities right here! 

You no longer have to drive to take a shower, we have a cabin on site (based inbetween the two lakes) with a clean, modern shower and toilet. As of this week we will have electricity too.

The lakeside track has also been re-done to make access easier for our anglers.

Jan 2014

Additional Stocking of Carp, 20th Jan

Brocard Large carp lake receives an additional stocking of 30 carp, including 6 forties and fifties.

Dec 2013

I’ll be back! - An Article by Ron Key, 13th Dec

Normally when travelling to France on a field test trip I write my article as soon as I return. It’s straight into my notes and then onto the PC to write and to download and pore over hundreds of photographs of the carp, swims and facilities.  This trip shouldn’t have been any different but I had spent most of this year working on the new British Carp Study Group book and the print deadline was looming. I’d also got the groups magazine to edit and the pressure was definitely on. 

This trip was also different because my friend Shaun Harrison was joining me and there would be two writers on this trip. Safe in the knowledge that Shaun had a comprehensive article planned I got on with the work that was piling up. When I finally got around to starting my piece; it occurred to me that looking back with some distance from our visit to Brocard Large might provide me with an alternative view.

When we were packing to leave Brocard Large my overwhelming feeling was that I didn’t want to go home. I would have quite happily stayed for another week. In over twenty years of French fishing I think it’s fair to say that I’ve visited hundreds of waters. Wet, dry, hot and freezing cold at every time of the year I’ve enjoyed it all. That said there are some waters that have that indefinable something that makes you want to go back. Brocard Large is like that. It has some much of what I’m looking for. Its spacious (39 acres), its not crowded (only eight swims), and it’s beautiful and peaceful (surrounded by forest in deep in the Champagne region. Add to that the usual quality Bachelier carp, with commons, mirrors including their incredibly beautiful scaly fish and grass carp and you have a winning formula.

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