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News from Villefond lake

Jan 2019

2018 Summary, 1st Jan

With the 2018 season coming to an end we thought we could write a small piece to touch on some of the great things over the year. Firstly we would like to thank everyone that came to fish at Lac Du Villefond and spent time in our little slice of Carpy heaven. 2018 as always was a rollercoaster with each week never knowing how the fish would react and who we had turning up to try for a new personal best carp.

We had some really great results and here are a few of the highlights:

* The biggest has to be our first 70lb fish, Arnold our big male breaking the lake record at 71lb+. This was mid year and after spawning so we fully expect Arnie to even bigger now. Being a male Arnie doesn’t have the massive weight drops during spawning our big girls do and just steadily has been growing massive and has shown no signs of slowing down.

* The scared common, a massive female she has just grown so fast since we stocked her in 2011 and in 2018 she reached 60lb, the current lake record for a common.

* The most fish caught ever by one person in a week. Bare in mind we are not a runs water, the focus is more on the size of carp. That means 34 fish in a week made for one very happy angler and probably a very sore back and arm.

* Over one winter the cormorants fed in our lake extensively, not a problem normally as they don’t touch the big carp. However they did eat a massive amount of our perch resulting in the spawning carp babies surviving. This meant that during the year these babies grew so fast and so fat at 18 months old they were 8-10lb! Great for the future but they became a pain to our anglers eating their bait so as they were such amazing growers we had no problem selling them to other lakes.

We also traded some with a fish farmer for some absolutely massive Zander to predate our babies in the future. Zander to around 13lb, Zander like I couldn’t imangine and cannot wait to catch.

* The cabin made its debut in 2018 and actually had the scared common at 60lb caught from it. Not only is it making the cold rain and even heat bareable it’s producing some lovely fish.

* During filming of our lake video we managed to capture a lake record catfish 106lb+ being landed, which made for an amazing sequence.

Those our the biggest news highlights from the year and we are already excited to see what great things are to come in 2019.

Aug 2018

106lb catfish, 1st Aug

We're out filming at Villefond this week. Here's the result of our early morning wake up call...

May 2018

A New Lake Record, 15th May

A new lake record on Villefond. Jamie Ramsey landed 'Arnold' at 71lb 02oz, on Dstr baits nut trix, fishing from swim 3. Congratulations sir!

Apr 2018

Monster Common Alert, 7th Apr

The scared common made his first appearance of 2018 and this massive common has now taken the lake record for a common carp at a massive 58lb 2. The picture unfortunately doesn’t do it justice but this monster common is just one feed away from the 60lb barrier. It was caught from the new cabin at night on a pear wafter.