Creuse Carp

I’ve never talked much about our fish on this blog, and since it’s animal week, then they should get a look in. We have three carp fishing lakes. Carp – ciprinids – are cool fish. Izaak Walton said so in his famous book, The Compleat Angler. To be precise, he said “The Carp is the [...]

Fish and chips

Back at my blog after an outing. Chris and I were away a whole 30 hours, our first time leaving the farm together, and our first child-free outing since Caiti was small!
We went to Mayenne, to another Angling Lines fishing holiday venue, Oakview Lake, run by Martin and Shirley Barker, to witness fish being microchipped. [...]

Best fishes for Christmas

What do you get when you unload one and a half tonnes of fish into your lakes? Aching muscles!
Chris and I had a busy morning. Our long-awaited order of carp, three new catfish and a sturgeon came today from Couturier fisheries in Indre. As usual they were beautiful specimens. Benj was on photography duty as [...]