61lb mirror is the reward for a hard week at Laroussi

Roy Van Goor landed this magnificent 61lb mirror at Laroussi on 23rd September 2011. Here’s his comments; “It was another hard week with just several sturgeon, grasscarp & 1 small common untill Friday morning.  Then my luck changed and carp of 22, 39 and 61 lb were banked in a few hours.  A new pb […]

Is this the biggest catch of carp ever on Laroussi?

Dan Burke & his mates booked Laroussi exclusive w/c 3rd Sept & had a fantastic catch.  Over to Dan; ” We had 99 fish in total!!! 40 carp up to 63.08 which was a new personal best for the angler…. 5 x 50’s, biggest 58.8 which I caught. My dad had a 50.2 which was is […]

Laroussi gives the Johnson family a fantastic week’s carp fishing!

73.07 Dave, Janet and Dan Johnson have just enjoyed a truly fantastic week’s fishing at Laroussi taking mirrors of 73lb 7oz, 51lb 7oz, 45lb 4oz ( fully scaled), 44lb 5oz, 43lb 8oz, 39lb, 37lb… commons of 26lb3oz, 18lb, 17lb 4oz, 14lb… catfish of 64lb… crucian carp of 5lb and a fantastic new French and lake […]

Father & son enjoy great Laroussi carp session

54lb & 32lb for father & son, Paul & Peter Mersh Paul & Peter Mersh enjoyed a fabulous Laroussi session (w/c 14th May) taking; Paul : 60lb 2oz carp ,22lb carp, 30lb carp, 16lb carp, 33lb carp, 43lb carp, 54lb carp , 36lb mirror, 40lb 3oz carp. Two sturgeon 57lb, 56lb 26lb grass – PLUS […]

The Old Oaks record tumbles – a magnificent 52lb common carp

Congratulations to Luke Czerpak who has just caught the new lake record for Old Oaks – a magnificent common of 52lb! It was an awesome fish, as you can see above… 1m long with a huge tail, nice dark color and torpedo shape – perfect! That’s the very first 50lb’er off Old Oaks. We knew the […]

Massive head of huge carp at Laroussi

Richard Ward with the current Laroussi record at 76lb The owner of Laroussi, Mehdi Daho, keeps meticulous records of the carp caught at Laroussi.  He’s just updated us with his stock summary & we thought we’d reproduce it here too because it makes very impressive reading; There are; * 350 commons & mirrors * Lake […]

A memorable Villefond carp session…

Our Villefond session; 25th March to Ist April 2011 Sick as a Parrott… Our trip to Villefond was to celebrate my good friend Andy’s 40th Birthday. The weather had improved showing a large increase in temperature in just a couple of weeks in both England and France. On arriving at the venue we were met […]

Gigantica produces its third 70lb+ carp!

Fudgey’s @ 73.09 – Gigantica’s 3rd known 70lb+ carp So, after a slow first week but with amazing weather so early in the year, last weeks lake exclusive of German anglers really raised the bar for all who follow this year. Although the group only caught 3 fish for the week ( 6 anglers in […]

A great year’s carp fishing at Villefond

The magnificent common, Big John, at 50lb 5oz. Caught October 2010 A Happy New year to you all!  Well, it’s time for the end of year report again, it just seems to come round so fast.  In 2009 we promised bigger and better things to come at Villefond and in 2010 the lake certainly delivered. […]

76lb monster carp – lake record at Laroussi

76lb – the new lake record mirror at Laroussi Richard Ward & his 6 mates fished Laroussi on w/c 13th November & what a winter session they had, topped by this magnificent 76lb lake record mirror for Richard. In total the group caught 6 carp (15lb common,  18lb common,  22lb mirror (perfect linear),  33lb mirror, […]

51lb carp stocked at Lillypool

We’ve been after a fish of above 50lb for Lillypool a while now, but they are as rare as hens teeth. Finally I got the phone call on Tuesday night to say she was on her way. It was a cold wet night, but at 8.30pm I had the pleasure of seeing her in the […]

50lb common carp caught at Villefond

Here’s the picture of one of the big commons caught at Villefond this week which weighed in at a whopping 50lb! The fish was part of a monster haul which included 40’s and loads of thirties. Catch report to follow soon!