We went out to red hot to do some work on the swims and general maintenance around the lake as we had done well throughout the week we thought it would be rude not to squeeze in three days angling at the end of the week the weather was cold and wet not exactly ideal [...]
Returning for a fourth year, hopes were high as a call from Ian a week before the session confirmed that Shawn and myself would have the lake to ourselves. Arriving at Ians on a very wet Saturday morning, Ian had the kettle on ready and we chatted about how the lake was fishing, to our [...]
a great weeks fishing at red hot lakes 6 fished for over 3000lb of fish carp to 48.8lb cats to 101.8lb loads of 30″s will be back again cheers Ian
Our trip to etang du vivier was our first adventure to France and I researched the venue thoroughly trying to find a water that ticked all the boxes for our group. We all found vivier to be exactly what we wanted and we totally enjoyed the peace and quiet the water offers. Ian was initially [...]
Martin, Luke, Andy, Dean and Derek. 13x 20′s, 26 x 30′s to 39lb, 5x 40′s to 44lb and a 53lb mirror. Cats of 53lb and 46lb. A total of 1758lb of fish! Another very productive week at Etang du vivier!
Martin, Jonny, Danny and Tom. 15x 20′s to 29lb, 14x 30′s to 39lb and 5x 40′s to 48lb. Biggest catfish 110lb!! A total of 1600lb of fish between four and with two anglers catching there p.b’s.
First week of 2012! Sean – 5x 20′s, 5x 30′s to 37lb, 2x 40′s to 42lb. Dean – 4x Carp upto 30lb and 7 Cats to 30lb. Jamie – 9x 20′s to 29lb, 14x 30′s to 39lb, 3x 40′s to 49lb and a 50lb mirror. 4x Cats to 95lb! Rob – 14x 20′s to 29lb, [...]
1066 carp crew…. 1 x single 14 x doubles 44 x twentys 28 x thirtys 2 x fortys 5 cats to 100 lbs The weather was hot for the week and we had plenty of good fishing, see you next year then Ian.
The action started straight away with Dave having a 49lb 14oz within the first hour and a 110lb+ cat fish being landed by Jack at the end of the week. I have listed the fish caught below as far as I can remember Mark Mirrors 46lb 04oz, 44lb 10oz 6 thirty’s and 12 twenty’s Commmon [...]
6 x 40lb+ Mirrors 9 x 30lb+ Mirrors 1 x 34lb Common (best fish of the week for me) 7 x 20lb+ Mixture of common and mirrors. My total 755.5lb with an average weight of 32llb. Really enjoyable weeks fishing although I have to admit after the second night I reeled in at night so [...]
Calling all anglers who fished Red Hot Lakes in 2011, we would like to keep our catch reports, blogs and photo gallery upto date with your great catches and your experience with us. If would like to add and feature on our website please contact us via the form on the contact page and we [...]
Mark – 1 x 40, 3 x 30s & 7 x 20s Simon - 1 x 40, 7 x 30s & 4 x 20s & 3 doubles Ben – 3 x 30s, 15 x 20s & 3 singles 5 cats between them
Hi, i fished red hot lakes last week, had 23 fish in total, wicked week, my first time at red hot cant wait to go back. Luke
RED HOT MARCH 15TH-19TH Got the nod from Ian to come over for a few days and have a go with the Red Hot Specials.Arrived to warm sunshine and fished in shorts during the first two days.Got instant success with the bait with 16 fish on the first two days,twice being wiped out on all [...]
What a session, seven days and nights of sheer heaven in the carp fishing world. For a first trip to France this was an experience that we had only dreamed of. We had heard of many horror stories with these French trips but this was not one of them. In fact the nights were so [...]
We arrived at Vivier right on time at 10am Saturday 20th September after Leaving Manchester at 3pm the day before. The journey seemed to fly by even though we were both extremely exited about the week ahead. I have been carp fishing for approx 9 years and have fished Vivier twice before. However Danny 2 [...]
What a week, 51 fish 11 30′s, 25 20′s 14 doubles, 1360lb of carp including lake record 48lb!!! After an epic journey, we arrived at Ian’s house where he informed us that our 14 hour journey had broken the record for the time taken to get to vivier. After a welcoming cuppa and look at [...]
After weeks of planning the day for the off was finally here. Jason and I loaded the car and set off to Dover to meet up with the others. After a bit of banter we moved off onto the ferry where the banter continued and our plans for the week were discussed. We were going [...]
Ian asked me to come over for a couple of nights and get a feel for the place, take some pictures for the website and hopefully catch a few… Of course I jumped at the chance and the ferry was booked. After an easy 4.5 hour drive from Calais I arrived at Ian the owner’s [...]
Just got back from an amazing non-stop week at Vivier, 6 of us on the lake caught around 200 carp between us to 38lb… We arrived Saturday morning to a nice sunny day, the fish were moving around all over the lake and we took a good look round and decided to fish as 3 [...]
This was and is hopefully the first of many trips to France and to Etang Du Vivier. The goal being to catch a 40 for my 40th birthday along with the slim hope of a big cat. Simon, Andy and I had all been fishing for a few years together and had had our share [...]
Neil, Tom & friends enjoy a carp filled week at Vivier in the torrential rain! I left work early on the 9th and met my son, Tom, at home at 15:30 after he had finished school. I had taken all of our kit around to Pip’s to be loaded into the van the night before so [...]
Danny & Friends 38 carp including 21 twenties & 11 thirties to 38lb