With the continual success and high acclaim that Lac Des Lesmont has received over the past 3 years it was only natural that the owners Andy, an experienced Carp angler, and his partner Marie, who have both enjoyed the experience at Lesmont greatly and made lots of new friends along the way, would want to seek out a new project and they had there hearts set on creating the ultimate social fishing holiday venue in France. After much searching and a year of hard work they are now proud to announce the opening of there new venue Lac Desire. Andy & Marie and all the team at Carpe d'Or believe they now have one of the best social fishing venues in France to offer its clients.

Lac Desire brings you to the Marne department of the Champagne region of France only 240 miles / 3.30 hrs from the ports at Calais and only 20mins from Lesmont. Completely surrounded by woodland this beautiful 40 acre estate is completely fenced and secure. The lake is spring fed, 16 acres in size, very mature and was originally excavated for gravel in the seventies. It has many features including gravel bars, plateaux's and silt areas in depths ranging from 3ft to 8ft. Fourteen comfortable swims have been prepared, two with disabled access and they have been positioned mainly around the centre of the lake (in the shape of a horse shoe) creating a perfect but at the same time private social holiday venue. With a max of ten anglers each week this leaves the choice of 4 swims should you require a move during your stay.

At the end of the season 2009 we have been making improvements to the lake that we feel will be rewarding to the angler, by adding a further 3 small islands to the northeast side of the lake to give the anglers more features to fish to.

The carp stock consists of an impressive 2.5 ton of quality, fast growing, young Royale strain of Mirrors, Commons and Grass Carp up to 54lb, with plenty of fish in the 30 and 40 pound range, which have been introduced to the original stock that is previously unknown and never fished for!

There is also a small pond to the side of the main lake which has been stocked with a hand picked strain of Carp, in November 2007 a further stocking of Common's & Mirror's 115 x 20's, 40 x 30's and a couple more 40 to 46lbs have been added to boost our existing stock which also includes grasses up to 37lb and a handful of Cat's up to 80lbs. In January we also added 30 more Carp up to 30lbs. With our ongoing stocking programme we aim to make Lac Desire an excellent runs water.

At the start of 2010 we have continued our stocking programme by adding a further 30 carps from 10kg-15kg (22lb – 31lb) to improve the impressive original stocking.