This 41lb carp is just one of the big carp waiting to be caught during your fishing holiday. Click here to see more carp from our lake.
Come carp fishing in France and catch a 40lb+ carp...
The carp lake was restocked in 2008 with more than half a ton of big carp in readiness for the start of the 2009 carp fishing holiday season. Although this included a handful of high doubles, the vast majority were twenties, thirties and forties. As anyone who goes carp fishing in France will know these carp will grow rapidly in the coming years, particularly here in the warm, sunny climate of South West France.
... plus a 30lb+ linear and 85lb catfish too
Much to our delight a number of true linear carp happened to come out when our fish were being netted at the fish farm, including one of 32lb. True linears with a complete set of scales on the lateral line are extremely rare and a linear above 30lb is rarer still and a real specimen worth hunting for. Unfortunately, it was late when the fish arrived at our lake and in our haste to get the new arrivals into the carp lake we neglected to take a photo of our prize, but we will post one as soon as it re-emerges!
In order to keep down the numbers of small nuisance fish we also added a number of big catfish to the carp lake. They may not be as pretty as the linear carp, but these fish can give you a great fight. Do remember to bring appropriate end tackle though if you fancy having a crack at them during your carp fishing holiday.
Catch some Big Wildies while carp fishing in France
The new fish supplemented the exising stock of mixed coarse fish, which included a good head of wild carp. The local farmers wink and tell us that there were already monsters in our lake before the restocking, although the biggest wildie we've seen to date was around 15lb. Mind you, that's quite a size for a wild carp and definitely something worth getting your hooks into...