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 […]
Can you remember the first time you fished abroad? Maybe you haven’t been yet. Maybe you are thinking about going. Well my first time was just recently, the week of March 19-26th 2011. The fact that we had never been abroad before was of slight concern. I say we as both me and my dad, […]
STOP PRESS – the Villefond lake record was broken yesterday with this magnificent 51.02 common. The captor was Andy Molyneux… he cast to a showing fish with a Mainline boilie and a size 6 Raptor hook.
Arthur the common at 49lb Martin & Josh Bennett have just come back from Villefond (w/c 19th March) and what a great session they had! 24 fish, including 7 different 40’s; Arthur at 49lb Max at 42lb.14oz and one they named Bennett at 47lb.4oz plus a load of upper 30’s which are not far away […]
Browsing YouTube we came across this video of Steve Pickering’s October 2010 Villefond session. Steve had a great session landing 20 carp including 3 x 40lb+ and 16 x 30lb+ You can read an article describing his trip here.
If you buy this weeks Carp Talk there’s a free to enter competition to win a week at Villefond , including the ferry crossing.
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 […]
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. […]
40.14 – Steve’s first 40+ from Villefond I arrived at Villefond around 8 am Saturday morning. I drove through the gates to find an absolutely beautiful lake. It is a lake of around 8 acres with an island in the middle to break up the pressure from other anglers. On the lake you will find […]
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!
47.08 Common from Villefond Lac Du Villefond’s latest catch reports speak for themselves with the average weight of the fish around 37lb and very rare for any fish to come out below 30lb. Furthermore, some fish which have never been caught before are coming out too, along with the old ones at record weights. The […]
38.09 for Paul Cooper at Villefond… one of 21 x 30lb+ carp caught in the week “It is not often that I get the chance to fish a truly thirties water in France, when what it says on the label you get – well I have now & it’s Villefond!” This quote is from Paul Cooper […]
Dan the Villefond catfish has come out 8lb heavier than last caught and is now 60lb
Mark Lambert’s 39lb Villefond mirror Recently a change seems to have taken place at Villefond. Before the tactics that were the most productive and what I would have recommended would have been small beds of well placed bait. Now that seems to be changing and the most productive seems to now be a large bed […]
44lb common from Villefond I’d set aside a weekend to finally get my lines wet. A group of fishermen had just left the lake a week ago with a bumper haul, including three 40lb’ers, so my enthusiasm had been re-ignited. I had picked my swim furthest from the entrance; the woodchip swim next to the […]
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 […]
This winter at Villefond is going to be a very busy time for us… here’s a brief outline of some of the improvements we will be making; * we are implementing a winter feeding program which we’ll increase as spring rolls around so that the excellent growth rates we’ve seen to date continue * […]
With all this gloomy weather about we thought we’d point you to an article which we’ve just received from Rob Allen. He fished Villefond & had a cracking session back in the hazy days of summer. Here’s an extract from his article; A few hours quickly passed with no sign of fish or takes so […]
