Dear Danny, I have fished in France now on several occasions on smaller lakes and having watched some of the DVD’s available regarding Gigantica I am slightly worried. Normally I like to fish the margins and do well, but in almost all the video’s regarding your venue the fish seem to be caught as far […]
Here’s an excellent atmospheric video of Shaun Harrison’s session on Laroussi
Molyneux – what a gorgeous lake! Clearview carp tours would like to welcome Wally & Helen as the new Molyneux staff. Wally has been a carp angler for 20 years fishing various venues across the U.K. For the last 8 years he was a member of the well publicised Grenville Carp Syndicate in Cambridgeshire. Over […]
Mark Oakes experienced some true winter carping at Laroussi just before Christmas (w/c 26th November 2010). As you can see from the photo above he experienced around 6 inches of snow and had to come home 2 days early because the lake froze over! Did he catch? He sure did…. a 43lb carp & […]
The diggers out! We reported a few posts ago about the swim improvement work being done by owner John London at Bletiere. In the last post the mini-digger was stuck in the mud… better news now; We managed to get our friendly farmer next door to come and pull the mini digger out. As you […]
You may or may not know the angler on the front cover of this year’s Angling Lines brochure. The angler holding the monster carp is Jake Langley-Hobbs, and Jake now recalls the events leading up to the capture of Staples from Gigantica. He had just picked one of his dogs up from the vets after […]
39.07 – May 2010 With all of the Christmas and New year celebrations out of the way the next thing we look forward to here at Glehias is the start of the 2011 carp fishing season. . Firstly we would like to give a big thank you to all of our customers who visited us […]
One of the carp from the Mas Bas recent stocking We’ve just received a small batch of additional carp. Their weights, in lbs, were as follows; . * 38.06 * 2 x 33 * 3 x 26 * 3 x 24 * 1 x 22 . These new fish fish will definitely help keep the […]
Notaires lake in its summer glory… 2010 was our first year with Angling Lines. We have two venues, Alder Lake and Notaire’s House and Lake, on our 75 acre estate in Creuse, in central France. And it was a great inaugural year. Notaire’s was booked for odd weeks off season, and pretty much solidly from […]
Chuck with one of his beloved Bletiere carp Since 2007, I have become a fan of fishing holidays in France after I had decided that my 30+ years of carp fishing needed a different and a new exciting challenge. Since this time I have visited a variety of venues and used a number of different […]
Hi Dan, I understand that small amounts of tigers (supplied by yourself on a daily basis) is now allowed… is this correct? Also just a question about boats; I want to hire one and as you only have 6 (I believe), is it best to pre-book this? ************************ All particles have been allowed here at Gigantica since […]
Alan Bigot introducing one of the new stockies Following on from the introduction of the 51 lb mirror at Lillypool, the lads have gone mad and put in yet more fish in for your enjoyment. Yes, I did say more fish added to the already impressive head of carp. This should really help guarantee even […]
Mud, glorious mud at Bletiere! A lot of our previous visitors have asked me to keep updating the site with the latest news on the swim improvements here at Bletiere, so as promised here goes; . Well, I’m afraid I have to report it’s turned into a bit of a disaster at the moment as […]
The carp arrive! Yesterday, January 12th, Villefond received an additional batch of carp from fish farmer Michel Bigot. These fish are all young fast growing carp that will help boost the run rate still further on this prolific venue. The weight (in lb’s) of the fish that were stocked was; 5 x commons; 27, 26, 22, 21, 20, 18 14 x […]
As reported on this Blog several times over the last few years, Mehdi Daho, the owner of Laroussi & Old Oaks, is a champion vegetable grower. He’s normally known for his record pumpkins but this time he’s grown a record radish. Weighing in at 12lb it recently took the European record for a radish. Well […]
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. […]
John London is the owner of Bletiere and through this Blog section he’s going to keep a diary of the daily life of a French carp lake owner. Outside it’s one of the rare days we have had rain in the last few weeks so I decided to sort out all the old photos we have stored […]
As we are now closed for the winter and this gives us time to clear up and plan for next year,it also gives me a chance to look back on the 2010 Bletiere season. We had another full season and again met some nice people and welcomed back a lot of […]
Here’s the video of the 51lb’er going into Lillypool in November 2010. Full details here.
If you buy this month’s Total Carp there’s a free to enter competition to win a week at Molyneux , including the ferry crossing.
