4 Videos You Must Watch on Cold Weather Carping

Four carp fishing experts give you the benefit of their experience when it comes to cold weather carp fishing in the four videos below. Here’s a reminder too that we have plenty of 50% off deals on winter fishing, just take a look here – French Winter Fishing Deals 1. Hugely successful angler and owner […]

48hr Session at Castle Lake

Brian and Darren have spent just 48 hrs fishing at Castle Lake, resulting in 3 carp at 45lb 14oz, 45lb 6oz and 39lb 9oz. Well worth braving the cold weather, well done chaps!  For more information on Castle Lake follow the link – Fishing France    

Early Season Carping? Try the Shallows and Mid Water

Water temperatures are the key to fish moving and feeding in this changing time of the season. Carp naturally look for the warmest part of the lake and so we will often see them in the margins or in the upper layers of the water. This is especially true of gravel pits and deep lakes. […]

Keep Ringing the Changes – Winter Carp Fishing

Jimmy Greaves famously said “Football is a funny old game” and those words could so well have been pointed towards carp angling.  Winter carping in particular can be a prime example for throwing up unpredictable outcomes during those long dark winter months. I love my winter angling, always have. I have tried to analyse this […]

9 Things You Need From a Winter Boilie

Another of our resurrected winter carping posts, today’s is 9 top tips on choosing your cold weather carp fishing bait.  1. Easily digested – the quicker it’s digested the sooner the carp need to eat again. 2. Low flavour level (that will surprise some!) – if I am presenting baits where I know the carp to be […]

WINTER CARPING – 10 THINGS YOU WOULD NOT LEAVE HOME WITHOUT

We’re resurrecting a few of our favourite posts on Winter Carping, here’s one from Shaun Harrison. Originally written for the blog in 2010, you can bet the advice is still worth heeding! Here’s a quick list of things I would not leave home without on a winter session; 1. Local weather forecast 2. Mobile telephone […]

Winter Carp Campaign at Villefond – Part 2

In this video series Mark details his 2013 winter carp fishing campaign at Lac Du Villefond. Find out the tactics employed on this mature big fish water right from the person that knows it best. If you missed part 1, you can watch it here. For more information on Villefond follow the link – Carp Fishing in […]

Life As A Bailiff – Part 2, Winter Carping

Six months have passed since I became a full time bailiff here in France at Lillypool lake and without doubt I have learnt more in these six months that I could ever have imagined.  I think that most anglers know we never stop learning.  I have met so many people, each with their own individual […]

Is it worth carp fishing in the UK in winter?

We thought it was about time we resurrected a select few of our winter carping posts, beginning with this piece by Shaun Harrison… Do UK carp feed sufficiently often in the winter  to make it worth while fishing for them?   In this excellent piece Shaun gives us the benefit of his 30 years of carp […]

Winter Carp Campaign at Villefond – Part 1

In this video series Mark details his 2013 winter fishing campaign at Lac Du Villefond. Find out the tactics employed on this mature big fish water right from the person that knows it best. For more information on Villefond follow the link – Carp Fishing in France

Winter Carp Fishing Expert Tactics

For any of you that missed this post the first time around here it is again, as we’re fast approaching the season and with many of you braving the colder temperatures to take advantage of our winter offers, it really is worth a watch… Mehdi Daho, owner of Laroussi & Old Oaks, guides you through his methods […]

Winter is Coming

It’s approaching that time of year again when the carp go on a massive feed before the Winter sets in. September and October are, in my opinion, the best times of the year for a number of reasons. Firstly, the carp should have fully recovered from this years spawning and will now be at their […]

A Cold Day On Villefond by Rob Inns

Rob Inns braved the chilly weather this spring and it sure did pay off! If you’re considering a late or early season trip, have a read below… In March 2012 I was lucky enough to be invited to Lac Du Villefond for the filming of the Angling Lines venue video. It turned out to be […]

Angling in the Freezer zone – Field Testing Tales

It was the end of March and Jim Kelly and I were about to take on our first field testing trip of 2013.  We were off to Northern France to fish a lake on a trial for Angling Lines. With these first exploratory trips on a new lake, our purpose is to provide feedback to both […]

Villefond’s Forties

Liam Whalley’s group visited Villefond in February and out of the nine carp caught, 6 of those were 40+, including the two beautiful big commons below.

First Visitors to Bletiere

  We have our first visitors of the year to Bletiere with Duncan and his wife Sharon here for two weeks. Duncan took advantage of us being empty last week and arrived on Thursday night to give him a couple more days fishing. On the Friday the cold front hit and we woke up in […]

Laroussi Catch in Carp-Talk

‘Mr Sixty’ Wayne Naylor has bagged half a page in the new Carp-Talk for the 67lb Mirror caught at Laroussi in February this year. For more information on Laroussi follow the link – Carp Fishing in France

Molyneux is off and running for the season…

Weather is much milder than last week, poured with rain yesterday, though has been mostly cloudy with the odd sunny spell. Anglers all seem very happy, food has gone down very well, and they are catching fish which always helps. Saturday night Ian Davenport caught a pb mirror of 34lb 4oz, then Sunday night caught […]

Spring is Nearly with Us

I have been out for a couple of short day sessions over the past couple of weeks but I have failed to bank any carp since the last mild spell in January. I have been keeping an eye on the weather forecast which indicates that we are due some warmer south easterly’s on Tuesday. This […]