Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Mr Willis

Venue:  Commons

Date of holiday: 22-09-2007 to 29-09-2007

No. of persons fishing: 2

Brief details of your catches: Carp up to 34lb, 5 x 30s, 4 mirror & 1 common

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Maize was probably the bait that caught the most. Pineapple & tiger nut also good.

Were the facilities what you expected? Better

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: When we arrived it was warm with warm nights but Tuesday night it dropped down to 3 degrees. Hence the fishing got hard. A beautiful lake with superb fish. Would definitely go back, I prefer Commons to Morgane Lake as cats in carp lake. Great fun, thanks Angling Lines once again!

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Ray Barnes

Venue:  Commons

Date of holiday: 15-09-2007 to 22-09-2007

No. of persons fishing: 4

Brief details of your catches: We netted 80 fish! Cats up to 55lb, commons to 37lb, mirrors to 36lb, 21 thirty's, 36 twenty's, 17 doubles & 6 cats.

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Single hook baits, fished to the far bank from caravan.

Were the facilities what you expected? Ok

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: This is a dream lake. The caravan was steady, we caught in all weather conditions sun, rain & cloud. All our catches were in top quality condition. This lake is well stocked, Laurent looks after you well! We will be back next year.

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Mr Harger

Venue:  Commons

Date of holiday: 01-09-2007 to 08-09-2007

No. of persons fishing: 6

Brief details of your catches: Lots of carp mainly 20s & high 30s, 4 cats to 50lb + Total for the week 2,500lb.

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Tiger nut boilies or halibut pellet, all baits dropped by boats about 3/4 way out to far bank.

Were the facilities what you expected? Worse

Were you happy with them? No. The sink in bathroom leaked soaking the floor.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Yes

Would you recommend our services to a friend? Yes

General comments: Excellent fishing, accomodation could be improved, the water heater kept cutting out, one minute it was hot the next it was cold!

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Mr Morgan

Venue:  Commons

Date of holiday: 16-06-2007 to 23-06-2007

No. of persons fishing: 4

Brief details of your catches: Only 23 Fish, largest 24lb.The lake is too big for the small amount of fish.

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: None.

Were the facilities what you expected? Worse.

Were you happy with them? No.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? No.

Would you recommend our services to a friend?

General comments: We had this venue recommended by you, it was the worst year we had ******** Comment from Angling Lines ********* Earlier catch reports show that there is definitely plenty of fish in this venue. We realise it's very disappointing when catches are below expectations but by deffinition fishing cannot be guaranteed... just because you don't catch them on a particular week doesn't mean they are not there ***********

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Lee Garfield

Venue:  Commons

Date of holiday: 09-06-2007 to 16-06-2007

No. of persons fishing: 2

Brief details of your catches: Biggest 33lb, 29lb, lots of upper 20's. Most fish caught were 20lb to 29lb. 54lb catfish.

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Quest Special Crab & Tiger Nut Crunch.

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: Have already booked for 2008.

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Mr A Cooper

Venue:  Commons

Date of holiday: 02-06-2007 to 09-06-2007

No. of persons fishing: 4

Brief details of your catches: 8 Catfish from mid 30's to 52lb. Carp - 5 x 30lb's, biggest 39lb. 5 x 20lb+, 2 x mid teens.

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Didn't matter, just aslong as the sun wasn't shining. Cloudy conditions were better.

Were the facilities what you expected? Worse.

Were you happy with them? Sort of.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Yes.

Would you recommend our services to a friend? Yes.

General comments: For a new venue, caravan was a bit old, ants everywhere inside. Take your own cooking gear since theres nothing there to use, not even a kettle. If we had known we would have taken our own. Good job there was a saucepan to use. To sum up fishing was good, accomodation poor.

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Slack Party

Venue:  Commons

Date of holiday: 26-05-2007 to 02-06-2007

No. of persons fishing: 5

Brief details of your catches: 2x Upper teens, 5 x 20's of which 1 was a mirror, 32 mirror, 2 x 34 commons, 37 mirror, 1 x 40lb Common. 2 x 39lb catfish and Sturgeon at 53lb.

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Hi viz Strawberry and ice cream pop up over tight beds of pellet, hemp, maize and few loose boilies. Banana and also shellfish sense appeal boilies were effective. Catfish responded to luncheon meat well. Fish within 8 ft from far bank best spot was far corner where 2 pipes are, also overhanging trees produced fish!

Were the facilities what you expected? yes

Were you happy with them? definitely

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? yes

Would you recommend our services to a friend? most definitely

General comments: Commons Lake produced excellent well conditioned fish they are a credit to Mr Bigot. Lake could do with some pads as all you can fish to are margins and open water! The caravan is very clean and tidy. If you want to catch nice big fish this is definitely a venue to consider however not guaranteed.

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Anthony Reeves

Venue:  Commons

Date of holiday: 19-05-2007 to 26-05-2007

No. of persons fishing: 4

Brief details of your catches: We had 25 carp between us,inc the biggest common at 48lb & several 30's. Also had 2 cats at 38 & 39.08.

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: We found the best tactics were fishing tight to margins & overhanging trees with tiger nuts or fruity boilies, with pellets, hemp/maize, boated or walked round.

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: Nice lake, very nice looking fish. The lake seemed to fish its best before, during & just after rain, when really hot the fish weren't interested.

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  William Watkins

Venue:  Commons

Date of holiday: 29-04-2007 to 01-05-2007

No. of persons fishing: 1

Brief details of your catches: 33lb Common (PB); 36lb Mirror (PB)

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Pineapple Crush boilies in PVA bags, single bait of the same

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:  I recently had two pb's from this new Angling Lines venue on Quest Pineapple Crush boilies. Following on from the video shoot on which I accompanied my dad, we did a couple of nights fishing, as there was no one on the venue. Well, initially we struggled, the guys the week before had caught most of the fish in the lake, banking 98 carp, cats and the sturgeon. We were not feeling too confident after the caning they had taken... We baited a couple of areas with boilie and pellet but nothing happened the first night nor during the next day.. We were now short of bait and only had the bag of Pineapple Crush left with us. So I tied up a couple of PVA bags with crushed boilies and a single bait on the hook and cast three of these presentations into the lake, on three likely looking spots. Well I had two takes that night on the one rod in the deeper water. The first was a lovely pristine common at 33lb (new pb common) and then a few hours later a second pb this time in the shape of a 36lb mirror. Needless to say I was extremely happy... see attached photos. Regards William

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Goodman

Venue:  Commons

Date of holiday: 21-04-2007 to 28-01-2007

No. of persons fishing: 4

Brief details of your catches: 98 fish Carp to 48lb, Catfish to 58lb, Sturgeon to 51lb

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Bait boats to far and right hand margins. PVA bags, spicy boilies and Hi Viz pop ups

Were the facilities what you expected? -

Were you happy with them? -

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? -

Would you recommend our services to a friend? -

General comments: The first group of anglers to fish Commons Lake this year from 21st - 28th April, had the best start possible when they landed 98 fish during the week to four anglers. The group from Bristol tallied 2 x 40’s including the largest carp in the lake a 48lb common, 20x 30’s to 39lb. They also managed catfish to 58lb and the superb diamond backed sturgeon at 51lb. Paul Goodman was top rod taking most of his fish from the right hand margin near the over hanging trees. With 36 fish to his credit he also had the largest catfish. Successful tactics were varied for the group, but a bait boat presenting a tight bed of bait was the most deadly technique. This worked both on the far and right hand margins. Baits were a mixture of pellet, particle over a spicy boile and hi viz pop ups. Even though this was the opening week on the venue the catches were outstanding and bodes will for this new venue. Suitable for 4 anglers the venue has a lake side mobile home and convivial terrace.