Customer feedback from Commons

Holiday date: Sat 5th May to Sat 12th May 2012
Name of customer: Mark Browning
Number of anglers: 4

Details of your catches: 27 fish, including 2 x40s, 6 x 30s, 15 x 20s and 3 cats to 80lbs.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Right hand margin and far left corner from mobile home. Spicy tuna boilies over pellets

Were the facilities what you expected? Yes
Were you happy with them? Yes

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Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Yes
Would you recommend our services to a friend? Yes

General comments: Fish spawned first part of week so was very quiet fishing. However started feeding mid week and caught some hard fighting and excellent conditioned fish, including 3 pbs.
Cats provided some good fun when fish weren't feeding.

Holiday date: Sat 28th Apr to Sat 5th May 2012
Name of customer: James Grimsdale
Number of anglers: 5

Details of your catches: 53 total, including 6 x 40's to 48lb 13oz, 27 x 30's to 38lb 9oz, 19 x 20's to 29lb 13oz and 1 grass carp

Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Beds of boilies in the middle and right hand side from caravan. Active bait solutions / malarkie

Were the facilities what you expected? Yes
Were you happy with them? Yes

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Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Yes, already have
Would you recommend our services to a friend? Definately

General comments: Great lake and great fishing. Baker is a nice touch but the frogs needs sorting out!

Holiday date: Sat 21st Apr to Sat 28th Apr 2012
Name of customer: Ian Penny
Number of anglers: 2

Details of your catches: 53 fish : commons: total of 28 - 5 x 40's including new lake record at 49lb 0oz, 1 at 46lb 4oz, 1 at 44lb 10oz, 1 at 40lb 10oz and 1 at 40lb 4oz, plus 11 x high 30's. Mirrors total of 23 - including 18 x 30's to 35lb 14oz and 5 high 20's. 1 x linear at 28lb 6oz and 1 grass at 12lb. Catch report collected friday afternoon, more fish caught after this)

Your best tactics/bait/rigs: We found that we had to move around various areas of the lake to find the fish in numbers. Lots of fish caught fishing into a strong sw wind.

Were the facilities what you expected? More than expected - excellent
Were you happy with them? Yes

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Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Yes
Would you recommend our services to a friend? Yes

General comments: We had a fantastic weeks holiday. All of the fish caught were in superb condition, a real credit to the lake owner.

Ian Penny

Ian Dwane

Ian Penny with new Lake Record 49lb 4oz 49lb 4oz

Holiday date: Sat 15th Oct to Sat 22nd Oct 2011
Name of customer: Colin Hayward
Number of anglers: 4

Details of your catches: 3 x 40's to 46lb, 8 x 30's, 23 x 20's, 3 x 10's, 3 small grass carp and 1 catfish 63lb.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Middle of the lake seemed best - cell bait used.weather did not help warm during day down to freezing at night.

Were the facilities what you expected? Yes - better
Were you happy with them? Yes but water pressure low on the shower, laurent said he was going to sort out this winter.

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Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Yes - commons is a great lake.
Would you recommend our services to a friend? Yes

General comments: We knew that the fishing could be hard at this time of year but we worked hard and had some good fish. Fish all in excellent condition.

Holiday date: Sat 3rd Sep to Sat 10th Sep 2011
Name of customer: Danny Westcar
Number of anglers: 5

Details of your catches: 4 x 40's... 9 x 30's... 25 x 20's... 6 x doubles... 7 x singles...a good mix of 6 and mirrors... No catfish or sturgeon...1- roach

Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Looking from the caravan the left bank from halfway along and the far bank to halfway along. Find the gravel and keep the bait going in, expect the fish to come on mid week unless you find were the previous anglers put their bait. We had most fish on 5 star curry mix boilies and on 5 star popupsin pineapple/anniseed and washed out peach.

Were the facilities what you expected? Yes - clean and tidy
Were you happy with them? Yes they served their purpose

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Yes a very nice place
Would you recommend our services to a friend? Definately

General comments: Thank you angling lines for arranging this trip also thanks to bob at 5star for the awesome bait!
Pic 1- matt's 45lb- spicey curry- bhod rig
pic 2 danny's 41lb 8oz-pineapple/aniseed chod rig
pic 3 marc's 36lb 8oz- fish mix peach- bhod rig