Fishing the Shallows for Carp at Blue Lake

Fishing the shallows at Blue Lake Paul Cooper explains the techniques he uses to avoid spooking the carp…

Fishing France at Blue Lake

110 carp… inc. 3 x 50′s! Sapphire Interview.

Pete Newman reveals the tactics & techniques they used to take over 100 carp, including 3 x 50′s, on their April ’12 session.

Fishing Holidays at Sapphire

Monster French Carp Haul – All The Tactics Revealed

Rob Allen reveals all the secrets behind his monster Margot carp haul from April 2012.

The group had 1 x 65lb… 3 x 50lb+… 24 x 40lb+… 83 x 30lb+… & 24 x 20lb+

Stunning French carping!

Carp Fishing in France

A Walk Around Oakwood Lake

Owner Dan takes us on a walk round Oakwood.  Looks gorgeous!

Fishing France at Oakwood

Stunning Photos From Margot

Over the course of a year we get lots of great photos sent in… but this batch from Margot are superb. Enjoy!

Carp Fishing in France

New Lake Record at Golden Oak – 59.07!!

Jef Pieters & The Boss  - 59lbs 7ozs

What  a great week for  Mario & Jef  Pieters. After a long drive from Holland and a good nights sleep they set up their rods and got down to the business of catching fish here at Golden Oak

The conditions were les than perfect, we had had 5” of rain in 2 weeks, but the weather improved throughout the week, but still it tested their skills to the full.

Fishing a prebaited area, using Dicks special parti mix, hemp, pellets, & crushed Ghurkka Spice boilies

Jef kicked off with a lovely mirror that weighed in at 33.13 and continued to land a selection of very fit & active mirrors daily.

Mario Pieters with a fiesty mirror - 33lbs 9oz

Meanwhile Mario was ready to take on the challenge, landing mirrors between 30.09 to 33.09. They both used Ghurkka Spice Boilies & pop ups – no doubt about it, the fish love it!

It had been a good week & they decided to get in a couple of hours in before leaving on Saturday morning – however, nothing however could have prepared Jef for his final catch.

The alarm went off, he grabbed the rod, and battle commenced! It took him all over the place, but stayed deep, you just knew it was going to be good! It was a well fought match lasting over 5 minutes, but Jefs skill triumphed in the end and….

THE  BOSS was landed…..and weighed in at 59lbs 7ozs! OK she was carrying some spawn but still – what a magnificent carp! FANTASTIC!!

Grandpa also deserves a very special mention, he caught over 100 fish, perch, roach on pumpkin seeds, & oh yes, a frog! The bank was immaculate, thank you so much, Grandpa!

Fishing Holidays at Golden Oak

April Review from Bletiere French Lake

Having now seen the back of a very wet and cold April I thought I would just have a quick look at the catch reports. Despite some awful weather where some of the anglers did not even fish but sat in the gite in the dry, we have had a pretty good month.

It seems to have been a good winter at most lakes for the carp putting on weight and here as always I fed the fish heavily during the winter and I can now see this paying of with some big fish coming out and in very good condition.

The number of thirties that are coming out is really good and a lot of fish just nudging the forty pound mark so this year should see a lot more forties out.  We have already had (from the end of last year) twelve different forties out.

For April just the fish over twenty pounds the list is;

*  6 x 40′s

*  27 x 30′s

*  31 x 20′s

Not bad catch rates despite the weather doing all it can to make it hard for us.

Looking forward to another good year with the fish steadily putting on weight.

Tight lines,

John

Fishing Holidays at Bletiere