Fensmere Fish Farm

09/04/2026

I love hearing feedback from lake owners who we have delivered fish to about how well they are doing. This fish was delivered up to St Malo to Kenny Dezitter’s lake and obviously spent last summer doing rather well. Nearly gaining 10lb in one summer and looking set to become a huge fish of the future. Kenny also said many other fish look even bigger as well from the fish we supplied showing the true potential of this strain of incredible Carp 😍😍😍

14/12/2025

🎬 FENSMERE HARVEST 2025 – A Fish Farmer’s Story

For the last three winters, we’ve been quietly filming something different at Fensmere.

This isn’t a highlight reel or a fly-on-the-wall video.
It’s a documentary that looks at the annual harvest — the netting, the grading, the deliveries — but also at the friendships, responsibility and trust that sit behind it all.

Filmed over three years with an experienced documentary filmmaker whose work includes BBC, ITV and Channel 4, this film offers a rare look behind the scenes of fish farming and fishery life.

The full documentary will be released on Christmas Eve 2025.

We’ve shared a short trailer below.
If it speaks to you, we’d appreciate you following along and sharing it with anyone who understands what this life is really about.

— Mark
Fensmere

07/03/2025

Over the next couple of weeks I will be draining and grading my C1 pond and holding tank at the farm. I have already done a rough grading of these fish, but have waited until the Cormorant issues are nearly done to do the final grading and put them out into the top lake for the summer.
I will have several thousand incredible C1’s available here at the farm for sale. These fish will reach between 2-4kgs by December of this year and be fully predator proof if fed correctly through this coming growing season.
For any fisheries here in France that have a small stock pond they represent a great way to grow on your future stock.
I will be selling these fish in batches of 3-400 fish at between €3- 400/batch depending upon size and scale patterns.
If you are interested drop me a PM or email. I will not deliver these smaller fish, so a small aerated tank would be needed to transfer.
Fensmere Fish Farm

03/02/2025

After a super tough week with flooding up at the fish farm. Then snow as I was trying to get the siphons set up to drain the top lake, I was due a break. I decided to throw the fishing gear in the truck and head off to a 1000 acre Barrage I fish about an hour away. What a session it turned out to be. Just a short 7 hours and 5 cracking carp landed and all wild probably uncaught belters 👌 Sometimes things just come together eh, I documented the session for The Fensmere Carpy Chronicles over in our YouTube channel.
If you haven’t checked it out yet head over there and take a look and subscribe.

After the chaos of trying to set up the siphons the day before, I decided to take a break and head to a stunning 1000-acre public Barrage in central France f...

16/01/2025

There has been lots going on over at “The Fensmere Carpy Chronicles”
Over the past few weeks I have uploaded a heap of videos capturing some of the day to day goings on and giving an insight into life on the farm and at Fensmere.

“Join us for another busy day at the fish farm as we get the siphons set up and ready to drain and net the top lake in the coming weeks. There’s always plent...

06/01/2025

If you haven’t headed over to the new YouTube page for Fensmere and the Fish Farm head on over and take a look. I am in the process of uploading many of the short videos I already have and adding more and more each day.

Welcome to The Fensmere Carpy Chronicles. After being asked by many people I have decided to film the day to day life of a carp fish farmer and lake owner he...

23/12/2024

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11/12/2024

The calm before the storm a little video just before the first net was cast on Friday.

10/12/2024

Well, the mud has settled after the massive, massive effort to get the harvest done over this weekend and the fish out and delivered to the clients. So it was a superb effort and a huge thank you has to go out to all of my friends Billy Berridge Justin Hamilton Kevin Gardner Andy Clements Simon Bletcher Hurst Knight Knight Andy Abbott and of course Fenner people and everyone that came down to help over the weekend. It's never an easy process. Any fish farmers out there, anyone that's pulled a net, anyone that's sorted and graded fish know that harvest time is a full on period of time that tests you to your limits, tests your endurance. For me, it's always something which is very hard, but also super rewarding when you see those fish coming up, getting weighed and then when we actually take them out and give them to the clients and see that huge smile on the dial from everyone who receives the fish. So I'm just going to do a quick update here. As I say, yesterday we were still in clear up mode, we're still going to be in clear up today. Put a few photos on. We took a lot of video during the day, just didn't have the time to put it out and put it online. So I'll drip feed a few videos out to let you know and let you see what was going on. And yeah, we might even start a YouTube channel up for Fensmere. We got a lot of content, a lot of stuff that I filmed during the weeks, and I may well put it into a bit more of a packaged video, so that you can see things in a little bit more detail as the day to day life of the fish farmer, but also integrating into that the day to day life of the fishery owner. So really the full gamut really from one side of it, preparing and creating and developing the fish through to the actual lake itself and anglers coming down and fishing. So anyway, I'll give you a little update and a few photos from the day just to show you what was going on and over the coming days, coming weeks, we'll put some videos out.
Here are a few photos from the harvest and some of the fish before they were returned to their new homes.

04/12/2024

Another little vid as I am preparing the nets. The sun is shining and today would have been an epic day to harvest. Fingers are double crossed that Friday is a good day 🤞🤞

02/12/2024

Another great day in preparation for Fridays harvest.