Seven Quality Carp Fishing Runs Waters in France

We’re always wary of describing some of our French carp fishing lakes as ‘runs waters’. After all, the way a lake produces on one single week is down to many variables – weather, time of year, pressure and so on. However, with that said, the following lakes usually produce the goods again and again. These […]

Four Carp Fishing Venues For The Summer Holidays

If you’re looking for a family holiday this summer with some carp fishing included then take a look at the following four French carp fishing lakes. All have a week or two still available in the summer holidays this year and offer great fishing, accommodation and facilities for all the family.

‘The Whole Family Had A Great Time’

Vincons, complete with it’s accommodation and swimming pool, continues to provide first class fishing holidays for the whole family this year. Here’s the latest feedback… Holiday date: Sat 16th Jul to Sat 23rd Jul 2016 Name of customer: Martin Grice Number of anglers: 4 Details of your catches: 2 anglers and 2 part timers; 74 carp from 8lb 10oz to […]

Updated Venue Video For The Beautiful Vincons

As one of our venues that is perfectly suited to a family holiday as well as lots of fishing action, Vincons is a long standing favourite. We’ve updated the venue video using footage taken last Autumn on our annual lake visits. This beautiful spring fed 12 acre lake is available for exclusive booking for up to […]

Vincons – A Family Friendly Fishing Venue

We have worked with Vincons for over 10 years now and it has been the venue that many of us in the office have chosen to frequent as our ‘chilled out’ holiday destination. A 12 acre runs water, lakeside cabin, stone gite and swimming pool all sit within the grounds of the Bouchot’s family farm in central […]

Stuart’s French Carp Session – Lots of Hints & Tips!

This feedback from Stuart is full of detail & tips on how to get the best out of Vincons – so we thought we’d include it here too. Holiday date: Sat 25th Aug to Sat 1st Sep 2012 Name of customer: Stuart Olley Number of anglers: 2 Details of your catches: We wanted a run water and this place delivered. It […]

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 […]

Carp catching madness at Vincons – 184 carp for 3,667lb!

The five of us arrived at Vincons around 3pm & our first impression was “WOW… is all this just for us… let’s have a beer to celebrate!”   To start with we chucked oily sticks out on 5/6 rods and unloaded the cars.  Not expecting to catch the first night we didn’t put any effort […]

Big carp and runs?

Stewart asks;  Looking for a runs water with big carp for 6 anglers.  Looking to book for next year. It really depends on what you class as big carp? Runs waters tend not to have a concentration of 40’s and 50’s. We have around 35 venues but I’d still genuinely only class around 4 of them […]