Inflight at Vaux

An aerial flight over Vaux lake, designed to give you a real taster of the venue's layout and lake features.

Vaux is a 3.5 acre carp lake, 2 hours from the ferry at Caen. Exceptionally high standard accommodation at the lakeside and, with a splash pool in the garden aswell, it's a perfect family venue. Good head of carp into the 40's.

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Forties at Vaux

Mark Owen came away from his trip to Vaux this October with a trio of beautiful dark forties...

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Details of your catches: 1 x 43lb1oz, 2 x 40lb13oz, 6 x 30lb+, 14 x 20lb+, 20 x doubles, plus plenty of quality roach and perch on maggot and castors.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs: All tactics worked on their day, from pop-ups to bottom baits. If in doubt, try a potato!!

General comments: Great two weeks as ever, roll on next year, 5th visit! Definitely try the slow cooker, meals are yummy!

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Forties at Vaux

A beautiful pair of forties from Vaux meant two new PBs for anglers Danny and Marc....

'We would highly recommend this venue to a friend and at the moment we are checking our diaries to see when we can get back!'

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45.04 - Danny

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Talking Tactics at Vaux

Our dutch anglers fishing Vaux this month brought heavy tackle with them; large hooks, 30lb line, etc because the lakes that they fish in Holland are full of zebra mussel beds, gravel bars and snags…

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To cope with this they tend to use heavy lines, non-break-away lead systems and very large hooks. They were fishing days only, no nights and the heavy tackle was visual to the carp in the clear water.

At the start of the week only a small number of carp were landed, so to overcome the heavy tackle, although we kept the heavy main line, we incorporated fluorocarbon leaders and break-away lead set-ups, with the end tackle a stiff boom. The end tackle consisted of a fluorocarbon stiff boom and whipped to that was a 24lb braided hook length with the hook link tied to a 6 – 7 size mugga, fished with a bottom bait.

An alternative boom was also being fished, all as the first except the hook was a long shank naylor, fished with a pop-up trimmed to apple core shape, tied 360-style. It was the 360-style which led to the two forties in quick succession and the bottom bait accounted for the thirties.

Chas, Owner at Vaux Fishing HolidaysRead the customer feedback here.

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44 – Moufie

Sizeable Pike comes out at Vaux

Ann Marshalls’ family must have been fairly surprised when they reeled this 24lb pike in (on a boilie) last week when fishing Vaux.

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31lb

They followed this up with 3 doubles from top of the lake, 4 twenties and 2 thirties at 31lb and 35lb. All fish over 20lb were caught from the dam wall. Their most successful tactic was walking baits round to the sluice and putting them 2-3 meters off the wall. High-viz popups and yellow dumbbells worked the best.

To read more feedback from Vaux follow the link –Fishing Holiday

‘Two Tone’ Carp Makes an Appearance at Vaux

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Paul Steele visited Vaux at the beginning of April, here’s his catch report…

Details of your catches: 40lb11oz mirror, 35lb2oz mirror and 24lb7oz common. 3 pike up to 4lb. Lots of roach and perch (1lb8oz to 1lb14oz)

Comments: We chose Vaux again due to it being an excellent venue for a family holiday with good fishing right outside the house. Don’t let the catch report put you off; only one angler fishing for carp in 0-8degc, north easterly winds, fishing days only.

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Really pleased to see “two tone”. Coarse fishing for perch, pike and roach kept the family happy all week.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Hi-viz chod rig (pink fruitella)

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Interim Catch Report from Vaux – First Carp of the Season

Interim Catch Report from Vaux – First Carp of the Season

February 26, 2013DavidNo comments

Vaux in its summer clothes!

Despite the freezing weather, snow showers, rain, Warren has started our 2013 season by catching eleven carp, including four 30′s and a brace of 40′s (46lb mirror and mid 40lb common) between his arrival on Saturday afternoon and 6am this morning, Monday 25th Feb.

A full Catch Report will be put up at the end of this week.

Fishing Holiday at Vaux

NEW for 2013 – Wet Room at Vaux

NEW for 2013 – Wet Room at Vaux

January 6, 2013DavidNo comments

The ground floor shower room in the gite at Vaux is NOW A WET ROOM, which will most especially benefit our disabled anglers.  To provide plenty of space in the wet room, the washing machine has been moved into the kitchen.

Fishing Holiday in France at Vaux

Chas’s Big Carp Euro Rig – A Safe Carp Rig

The component parts of Chas’s safe carp rig

A disturbing aspect of owning Vaux French carp lake is that I find numbers of my carp each year dragging leaders and leads because the tackle used by some anglers does not allow the leads to drop off the clips.  The reasons can be;

• leaders cannot pass freely through the tail rubbers to safety clips
• that rubbers are pushed onto clips too tightly
• that the wrong tail rubbers to safety clips are used
• tail rubbers are superglued on
• leads are tied to clips because anglers don’t want to lose their leads
• the use of leaders incorporating tungsten putty.

Any of these causes means that the carp cannot get rid of any of the component parts.

Often simply cutting the tail rubbers to an angle allows leaders to pass freely through them.

Here’s the component parts needed to make safe end tackle set-ups;

You can read the full article here