Our Lakes

Great Boux carp session

Paul Cooper & Paul Brookes recently (w/c 1st Oct 2011) enjoyed a great session at Boux taking 33 carp including 7 x 40’s (to 46lb 9oz) & 8 x 30’s. In this clip we see carp on the bank to 45lb (common) plus a look at Paul’s successful rig.

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 […]

Record week at Lillypool – 85 carp

Andy, Dave, Mark & Tony arrived at Lillypool on Sept 12th 2012 on a mission… to break the lake catch record of 80 carp for the week set in April 2012. And break it they did taking 85 carp from 19 to 36lb, including new p.b for Dave and a 36lb common for Andy. In […]

Boux is back!

Boux is Back! After an absence of 3 years from our books we’re delighted to announce that from 2012 we’ve been appointed as the sole booking agents for Boux. As many of you will know, Boux has had reputation for producing large carp since the 1980’s with many famous anglers having visited its banks. That […]

Bivvy Power!!!

The Power Pack Ben Young and Gary Sawyer of Bivvy Power are here for the week at La Gléhias and they’ve brought with them their ‘Bivvy Power’ pack and ‘Remote Hit and Run Lighting System’. The ‘Remote Lighting System’ not only allows you to illuminate your bivvy, but the area outside it too! – And […]

Good week at Villefond with 7 x 40lb+ carp

Villefond continues to return really good catches of big carp… we really think it’s one to watch for the future. Mr Bachelor’s party (w/c 3rd Sept) had 29 carp; *   Arnold at 47lb 5oz *   Bennets at 45lb 6oz, *   5 other 40’s, *   15 x high 30’s *   and 7 x 20lber’s Pretty good […]

Is Vincons the best bagging up water in France?

Jon playing yet another Vincons carp… Without doubt our most prolific venue is Vincons.  If you want to catch lots of carp that’s the place to go.  Here’s a bit more evivdence to support that claim; Jon & Larry fished Vincons w/c 6th August and had 79 carp in total up to 29lbs 7oz. Average size […]

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 […]

Breaking More Records In The Army

The Army boys all from the 2nd Britalian Royal Welsh, based in  Tideworth, make their assult on Lillypool week commencing 6 August 2011 breaking new records with a total of 106 runs and 81 fish landed to 44lbs with a new PB for Paul Thomas. Well done lads. Keep up the good work for pleasure […]

A pig gets netted at Glehias!

This is without doubt the funniest thing I’ve ever seen at Glehias; Ben Young and Gary Sawyer of ‘Bivvy Power’ are fishing here this week at La Gléhias with Gary’s mum and dad Al and Lynn. On Thursday evening I went down to the Lakes for a chat with Ben and Gary, about an hour later […]

Important notice re Gigantica bookings

As from winter 2011 Korda will now be taking bookings for Gigantica themselves.  Anyone who’s made a reservation for Gigantica for 2012 & beyond has already been written to and their details, along with any deposits paid, have been forwarded to Korda who will of course honour the bookings. Here’s a message from Danny Fairbrass; […]

41lb mirror is the new Bletiere record

41lb – the new Bletiere record Richard and Becky were with us at Bletiere (w/c 27th August) as part of their honeymoon and what a week they have had. Richard did not fish nights and went to Paris for a day but still managed to catch 36 fish which included the new lake record mirror […]

Happy Summer Days at Mas Bas

Happy Summer Days at Mas Bas by Bridget Dawson I’d like to say that the day started early but in fact due to time constraints with the tunnel crossing it started for us around 5pm as we dropped off the dogs in Chesterfield and headed south to pick up our friends. We had chosen the tunnel crossing […]