Just over 2 weeks ago Colin broke our lake record and was the first to catch a carp over 40lb with a mirror of 40lb 6oz. The following week we had Oliver here and along with some good fish throughout the week on the last day he managed to catch a 40lb 8oz common which […]
Laroussi questions from Chris Evans; Dear Shaun, I have booked to visit Laroussi from 14th August for a week. I have booked the lake on an exclusive basis but may only go with 4 anglers. I know you’ve fished Laroussi before so I wondered if you could answer a few questions for me; Could you […]
A new lake record common as been caught at Lillypool! The impressive fish was caught by Mark Sidery at 42lbs. It’s also a new personal best common for Mark & was taken on a scopex/squid boilie fished over half a gallon of maggots, under some overhanging trees on the no fishing bank. Special congratulations to […]
At last the first Bletiere carp over the 40lb weight has been caught. Colin was the lucky guy and at 40.07 it’s also his pb… and he’s only fished for a couple of hours a day! Well done to colin on a great catch and hopefully he may even beat it this week.
Mr Fisher has broken the lake record of the most beautiful Laroussi mirror, a stunning heavily scaled mirror called ” The Fully Scaled” at 45lb 15oz. This famous fish normally only comes out once or twice a year so it was a real surprise when it put in its second appearance in a week! Tony […]
Lake record common @ 42lb 5oz The lake record wobbled at Molyneux when the new lake record common was caught at 42lb 5oz. The huge common came from a siltly gully in front of swim 8 and was caught on a single Baitcraft T1 over a large bed of T1’s, hemp and rape seed.
Laroussi is one of the best known big carp waters in France with 60lb+ carp regularly gracing the banks. New for 2010… you can now hire a chalet right at the waters edge which sleeps up to 4 anglers. For anyone who’s been to Laroussi before this chalet was the owners chalet before he built […]
63lb Hi Bridget, Just returned from a great week on Laroussi. Mehdi has the full catch report but in summary we had the following: 1 x 63lb carp (caught by me I am very happy to say J ) 5 x 50lb + carp 5 x 40lb + carp 5 x 30lb + carp 2 […]
Amanda Groves 54lb mirror Amanda Groves certainly showed her male colleagues how to fish Laroussi on a recent trip landing 3 x 50lb+ carp in 24hours! Amanda takes up the story; Arriving at this venue for the first time, we were all taken back by how lovely the lake and surroundings are. However, being the […]
Congratulations to Stuart Currie for catching the new Old Oaks lake record… a stunning 44lb 15oz common! Stuart’s party bagged 65 fish including 29 thirties! Well done guys!
63.09 Congratulations to Paul Cummins on his 71lb 12oz mirror, Patrick smith for his 63lb 9oz and Mr Sawyer for his 62lb and his wife’s 54lb! Well done too to Mr Fisher… he beats the lake record fully scaled at 45lb 15oz. I believe the smallest mirror caught since February is 34lb! Tight lines, Mehdi, […]
Based on my own fishing & observing guest anglers anglers here at Villefond the first thing I would say is it’s not an overly hard water and most tactics work. From experienced anglers, to some who would admit freely themselves they are not experts, have all done well! There are a few tips that seem […]
Having had Genets netted recently I thought I would put together a few words from my own point of view on the importance as part of ongoing fishery management to carrying out regular netting. We first had the lake netted in Oct 2006 to remove the bulk of the silverfish when nearly a ton & […]
38lb 8oz Gary Webb, whilst on work experience from Hadlow colledge, managed to fit in a few nights fishing and caught new lake record Grass carp of 38lb 8oz at Molyneux. The huge grassy was caught from peg 12 on Baitcraft T1 fished over a large bed of T1’s, maize and hemp.
71lb 12oz Laroussi Mirror The early weeks of the season always produce big fish at Laroussi & 2010 was no different. The lucky angler this time was Paul Cummings, 44, from Stoke on Trent, who took this magnificent mirror of 71lb 12oz. It was caught from Le Chene peg at 10.20pm on Thursday, 1st April. […]
My father and me are thinking of fishing Gigantica in October. I have seen some reviews that say the fish move further out into deeper water and that most fish are caught more than 100 yards out. If this is the case can you use bait boats or can you row your baits out. Any […]
By Andrew at Molyneux lake; I often get asked about bait but I was a bit hesitant to write a piece about it in case people thought they could gain an ‘edge’ by doing the opposite of what I advise, but here’s what I’ve found at Molyneux. Of course every lake varies, but these are […]
October 2009 Danny Fairbrass lands Gigantica’s largest resident – the Giant at 72lb. He’d already had several 40’s and a 50 before catching the Giant on his final night. Just look at the size of this magnificent creature!
March 1st, 2010 The aim of this years re stocking at Mas Bas was to increase the numbers of 30’s. Gilles went up to the fish farmer at La Brenne in the west of France and picked 21 beautiful mirror carp, all between 30 and 35lb. As you can see from the photos they are […]
Here’s the short video clip of the recent additional stocking at Lillypool. To recap; on 18th December 2009 a further 55 carp were stocked. Six of the fish were just under 20lbs with the rest ranging from 20 to 30lb, the average weight being 24lb 10oz, and the biggest being 29lb 5oz with two lovely commons […]
