Frank, Tony and Matt fished Kingfisher in our first summer here https://carpfrance.com/19-08-2023-kingfisher-from-disaster-to-pbs/ and managed to catch 5 fish between them mainly due to the very high temperatures. They rebooked for this year and included their mates Dave and Wilbur and… Read More »26/07/25 Kingfisher George and the responsible adults
Cookie, James and Callum had booked this week on Lac Lucie in 2023, just before we took over, and so had had a long time to get prepared and excited for it. Cookie has fished all over the world (except… Read More »19/07/25 Lac Lucie Cookie & his squadron
Generally speaking people are under the impression that French carp do not feed off the surface. Or do they? When this angler booked a week on Kingfisher and asked for some floating pellets to be sent to us we were… Read More »19/07/25 Kingfisher Perseverance pays off
With no one on the lakes this week we decided it was a good time to come up for air, get a few jobs done and catch up with some friends. With our Saturday guests waved off we cleared the… Read More »12/07/25 July break
Nigel always reckons if you catch one fish a day when you’re carp fishing you’ve done well, especially if you are not using a bait boat. So for young angler, Billy, this was an amazing week. Paulette, Keith and Billy… Read More »05/07/25 Kingfisher A mega week
Graeme and his wife returned for their third visit to Lac Lucie and in the midst of a heatwave, with temperatures at 35.1°C, so they chose to set up camp on the main bank where there is more shade throughout… Read More »28/06/25 Lac Lucie A very hot fortnight
Douglas and his wife, Rita, visited us for the first time fishing in France this week and it was set to be very, very hot and like most of the lakes in the area, a tough one for catching fish.… Read More »28/06/25 Kingfisher Finding the shade
You may remember us writing a catch report last June for three of Nigel’s friends form The Oliver Twist in Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire…..https://carpfrance.com/01-06-2024-kingfisher-only-fools-and-carp/. Well they returned last week and bought another member of the GAGAs with them, John, who loves his… Read More »21/06/25 Kingfisher Only fools return
Friends Jaden and Ricky joined us on Lac Lucie this week with their better halves, Eden and Beth, along with Ricky and Beth’s son Charlie. They had both fished in France before, Jaden comes over a couple of times a… Read More »21/06/25 Lac Lucie After the storm
Sean and Mike have been fishing together in the UK at least weekly for a number of years but have never been to France fishing before and never seen a catfish. They had PBs in the high teens and were… Read More »14/06/25 Kingfisher Magic number 3
Dave and Sue returned for two weeks on Lac Lucie – their 16th visit to the fishery in total and how different the weather was this year compared to their previous trip. Last year we had had 108mm of rain… Read More »07/06/25 Lac Lucie The Warwickshire Wafters – sponsored by Savlon
Dave has given us our heading this week. He says ‘This week’s fishing trip was like a Netflix series, a slow start…good bits in the middle but after thinking it would be a dull finish, a few twists bought it… Read More »31/05/2025 Lac Lucie Just like a Netflix series
May is invariably a time when the temperatures start to rise and the water gets warmer and the carp spawn and so we close for a week to hopefully coincide with this annual event or to give the fish a… Read More »Spring break 2025
We don’t usually take bookings for day fishing but as both lakes were available for half term week and we had had an enquiry we decided that we had nothing to lose. Glynn, Jo and their sons, Ben and Josh… Read More »26/05/2025 Lac Lucie A taster session
We had five work colleagues from Manchester on Kingfisher this week who had travelled over the channel on the overnight ferry on Thursday night and stayed the night in Cognac on route to us. Whilst they were there they had… Read More »03/05/2025 Kingfisher The fab five
Dave and his son, Alex had visited us for the first time last year https://carpfrance.com/04-05-2024-lac-lucie-off-to-a-flyer/ and despite the weather then they had had a fantastic week with a 50lber in the first hour of fishing and 9 fish out in… Read More »03/05/2025 Lac Lucie Small fish matter
We took over the lakes here on 2nd May 2023 and have loved every minute of our two years here. We always have a list of things that need to be done as well as things that we want to… Read More »Second anniversary
It’s not work, work, work here all the time and if there is a lake free and the weather conditions are not too bad Nigel likes to fish a night or two. We thought we would run a blog through… Read More »Nigel’s catches of 2025
This week saw the return of Paul, his son’s Oliver and Thomas and his friend Dave on their fourth visit to us and Paul decided that this spring they would give Lac Lucie a try. Generally we recommend only 3… Read More »12/04/2025 Lac Lucie The boys are back
The first (paying) guests on Lac Lucie arrived in the middle of the Saturday night having had to change their travel arrangements and having to have frequent stops on route for their 4 year old rottweiler, Opal. Nigel was still… Read More »05/04/2025 Lac Lucie The 30s club
We have now started our third season here and for the most part our guests have all come from the United Kingdom, so we were thrilled to receive a booking from Germany last year. Peter, Stefan, Marco and Mathias drove… Read More »29/03/2025 Kingfisher Opening week in metric
One week until the 2025 season starts and we welcomed son-in-law, Matt and his mate Adam onto Lac Lucie for a pre season fish. We were interested to see what might come out with the weather having been quite chilly,… Read More »22/03/2025 Pre season fishing
With less than two weeks to go until the 2025 season starts we are looking forward to being able to produce some new catch reports instead of news of what we have been up to…after all that is why you… Read More »Final Countdown
The new daffodils we planted are starting to flower, the cranes are heading back north and the fish are starting to show again. As is often the case in life, time is running away with us and we are now… Read More »Spring is on it’s way
Happy new year to you all and we hope that you had a great festive period and have started 2025 off well. Time is passing very quickly here and we cannot believe we are already mid January and only 10… Read More »January jobs