Customer feedback from Joy Lake

Holiday date: Sat 14th Apr to Sat 21st Apr 2012
Name of customer: Richard Pearce
Number of anglers: 1

Details of your catches: Richard caught 3 commons, 21 mirrors, 2 tench & 8 bream! Mirrors ranged from 14lb to 39lb 2oz - new pb and lake record! Shannon caught a 38lb 3oz mirror (with a little assistance from richard!)

Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Size 8 hooks with surf n turf bottom baits with chopped boilies in pva bag. Also pineapple snowman worked as well.

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

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

General comments: Neil & caroline were great hosts, giving us all the information we needed to have a good week. Definitely will be coming back soon with friends or family!

38lb 3oz Mirror for Shannon?! 38lb 3oz

THE LAKE RECORD! 39lb 2oz

One of nine 30's of the week!! 32lb 4oz

Holiday date: Sat 6th Aug to Sat 13th Aug 2011
Name of customer: Rooney Family
Number of anglers: 3

Details of your catches: 4 6 to 26lb, 23 mirrors to 32lb, 2 tench to 3lb & bream to 3lb. 2 pb's beaten - simon 29lb 4oz (so close to that 30 simon!!) and jayne 17lb 8oz.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Pineapple crush, rahja spice & the one boilies - snowman, single 15 & 20mm's fished to pads and margins.

Were the facilities what you expected? Better
Were you happy with them? Yes, very.

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

General comments: Lake good even though levels were down due to early summer.
We had evening meal food package, extremely lovely, tasty, flavour-some food - thanks very much caroline!
The service was good, neil very helpful & gave good advice about the fishing & baits to use.

Holiday date: Sat 18th Jun to Sat 25th Jun 2011
Name of customer: Martin Dalby
Number of anglers: 5

Details of your catches: 7 fish including new pb mirror of 31lb 12oz! Further mirrors of 29lb, 26lb 8oz, 23lb, 20lb 8oz & 13lb, plus an 18lb common.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Pineapple bottom baits on blow-back rigs.

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

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

General comments: Can't wait to come back in a couple of years!

Holiday date: Sat 18th Jun to Sat 25th Jun 2011
Name of customer: (little) Nick Chamberlain
Number of anglers: 5

Details of your catches: 13 fish for me including a new pb 32lb mirror and a new pb common of 26lb 2oz. Lake fished well in almost every peg, plenty of big fish came out.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Pineapple bottom baits with small pva bags of lake pellet, scattering boilies over the top.

Were the facilities what you expected? Yes
Were you happy with them? Yes, very happy.

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

General comments: Excellent week, really enjoyed myself. Food was great, neil was an excellent host - don't think i would of caught the fish i did without his advice!

Holiday date: Sat 18th Jun to Sat 25th Jun 2011
Name of customer: Pete Dalby
Number of anglers: 5

Details of your catches: Good catches for the week on quest pineapple crush & baitcraft t1 boilies. Top fish weighed in at over 30lb.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs: Boilies

Were the facilities what you expected? Yes
Were you happy with them? Yes, very happy.

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

General comments: Superb location, quiet & tranquil with abundance of wildlife. Neil our host was fantastic with advice & tactics, a really nice guy.
Will be back to increase my pb!