Customer feedback from Landes

Sat 3rd Aug to Sat 10th Aug 2019
Rodney Underwood
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Fished 5 nights, and evenings once it had cooled down till around 9-10am.

15 singles mirrors and commons
24 doubles mostly commons
11 20s to 29lb mirrors and commons
3 30s - 31lb mirror, 32lb mirror, 33lb 5oz mirror

Lost around 10 fish mostly small fish with 3-4 better fish inc a good 30lb mirror 1 foot from the net.

The big fish just didn't feed. Despite the number of small fish i had a fantastic time catching

I started off with maize hemp pellet crushed and whole boilies, the small fish were just prolific when landing a fish my boilie hook baits were battered my 22mms looked like 12mms.
I stopped using particles and pellet, i was putting out just boilie this made a huge difference to the fish size caught and the baits not being pecked at.

I ended up using double 22mm bottom baits, even tried triple 22mm bottom baits as single 18-22mms or pop ups were being taken by small fish.

Singles were still taking double 22mms.
The fish have huge mouths, are extremely greedy and have very soft mouths.

The facilities exceeded our expectations, the main gite was spotless with everything we needed, the lake gite was stunning, being new and was lovely sitting with the family on the evening on the patio using the hot tub. The anglers kitchen and toilet are fantastic, a very nice touch using in the week, with a freezer and fridge with a great shower.

The pool area was just stunning, the wife and kids and I spent most the day in the pool to play and cool off, the building with shower sink and toiliet behind the pool was brilliant for the kids wanting the toilet constantly.

Extremely so, we cant fault anything it exceeded our expections. The pool and grounds are just stunning.

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Ive alreasy told most people i know about landes, while i was there a few people messaged me asking where i was and a few who have booked landes mesaaged me asking to send them pictures and vids and keep them informed how i got on.
Angling Lines are fantastic, this is my second time booking with angling lines, its very easy everytime ive contacted them they answer extremely quickly resolving or doing anything i need, im currently looking at booking another trip already.

Landes is stunning and such a beautiful place, tony and kim were such lovely people, they leave you alone to enjoy yoir holiday giving you your week of paradise but are on hand for anything you need.
We had a very long travel over 20 hours due to traffic and accidents the welcome food package was a saviour as we just wanted to have a look around, unpack and get some sleep.

The gites are stunning, the pool is amazing, the lake and grounds are breath taking, tony and kim are very passionate about landes - the grass, trees, bushes were all cut trimmed to perfection even the drive was raked to make it look brand new for your arrival.

The fishing was a struggle with the amount of small carp in the lake but tony informed me it will be netted this year removing all small fish with small fish sold to cover costs, fish put in the stock pond leaving the better fish in the lake with a top up of 30s and 40s. Once this has been done Landes will be perfect in every way. I'm very jealous of tony and kim with what they have its just stunning. They have done plenty of work to improve the venue with more work planned inc a play area and climbing frame for kids.

Sat 27th Jul to Sat 3rd Aug 2019
Daniel Fletcher
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We caught from the off and fairly steady, unfortunately lots of small carp sub 15lb we did eventually get amoungst the better fish and had fish of 27, 31, 35 and 29..

Anything really but bigger snowmen baits could help avoid the smallest carp..

The facilities were great the whole place is lovely quiet and peacefull everything was spotless, the gite was lovely as was the swimming pool area... very nice couldnt had asked for more...
Yes very happy

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Yes i would,

the small carp are the only problem as they are very small, .. the bigger fish are in there its just getting past the small stuff , but tony and kim are great and have plans to remove the small stuff, which will make this a very hard venue to top as it is a lovely place
Yes ive used angling lines twice in the last 2 years and am currently looking to book another with them no fuss no problems..

Tony and kim were great very friendly and helpful we were left to get on with our holiday but they were there if we needed anything..

And once those smaller carp are netted it will be a difficult venue to beat if your looking for a family trip with the chance of big carp or a couple alike having the luxuries of the gite pool and jacuzzi as well as fishing on the doorstep..

Ive made plenty of points about the smaller carp but it really is a lovely place with great fishing and as family location, we have said we would return again in the future..

Sat 20th Jul to Sat 27th Jul 2019
Simon Brown
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1 angler, 54 fish up to 33lb, temperature up to 42 degrees for three days and still caught

Single boiley with pva mesh filled with pellet

The new gite was excellent, everything you needed and only yards from the lake
This was are second time at Landes and as long as I can book when we want to go I cannot see us going anywhere else, this facility is brilliant. Spotlessly clean and has everything you need for a week away, Tony & Kim are always there to help if you need them.

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Yes definitely
Yes, have done

Angling lines have a real gem in Landes, long may it last

Sat 13th Jul to Sat 20th Jul 2019
Kevin Firth
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Fishing very difficult due to hot weather. A fair few small fish as the big ones didn’t want to play. Tony has a plan in place to net the lake which will be a great improvement.

Bottom baits 18mm blow back rigs

Better than expected
Extremely happy

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Yes
Yes

Tony and Kim perfect hosts couldn’t do enough to help. Tony went out of his way to help me hire replacement bait boat after I short circuited mine.
Pool and hot tub superb, grounds immaculately kept. Perfect platform outside the gite to fish from.
The tree outside the gite is a godsend especially with the fantastic hot weather.

Sat 1st Jun to Sat 8th Jun 2019
David Cox
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Not a great week for fishing but they spawned on Saturday weather very hot 33 on sunday and Monday dropped to 13 on Wednesday between us caught over 40 carp 1 over 40, a couple over 30 and some in 20’s but way too many around 10lb including several under 5lb

You can catch fish anywhere but the big girls didn’t want to play

Tony and Kim have down a great job good looking lake with no issues the facilities inside were spot on great bathroom and well equipped kitchen, bedroom 2 let down by having no window, pool area better than any I’ve been to
Very

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If you want a great holiday in a great location yes but maybe not due to the high ratio of smaller fish
Yes

Sat 18th May to Sat 25th May 2019
John Rainer
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1 x 43lb 7oz , 1 x 37lb 2oz, 1 x 30lb 7oz. 5 between 29lb and 20lb. 11 fish between 5lb and 19lb.

Simple hair rigs, with bottom baits, over baited areas in the margins. the bigger fish came on the 20mm scopex boilies available from Landes. Smaller fish came on 16mm krill boilies. We baited spots with the ble and trout pellet available from landes. All of our fish came at night the earliest being around 10.30pm and the latest being 7am.
The start of the week had difficult weather conditions with colder days and cold nights, but the baited areas started to produce fish after 2/3 days of constant (but not excessive) baiting. By the end of the week both margins and baited areas in the middle of the lake had produced.

Expectations were exceeded by several times !
Very very pleased with everything. Having said that I really must complain about the incredibly long wi-fi password which took me three attempts to get right!! (Only joking!)

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Definitely
Definitely

This was the first time we had done a trip like this and cannot make any comparisons, so I can only say how delighted we all were with the venue as a whole, and our hosts Kim and Tony who made us very welcome. We went with the goal to beat our pb's which meant getting into the 30's, and we all achieved that which was great. We were getting a little concerned after no sign of fish for a whole day and night that we were doing something wrong, but we stuck at it and it came together in the end. For us it was the nights that produced despite trying all we could during the day they didn't seem interested, with the exception of 3 off the surface from stalking the margins.

Sat 18th May to Sat 25th May 2019
John Rainer
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1 x 43lb 7oz , 1 x 37lb 2oz, 1 x 30lb 7oz. 5 between 29lb and 20lb. 11 fish between 5lb and 19lb.

Simple hair rigs, with bottom baits, over baited areas in the margins. the bigger fish came on the 20mm scopex boilies available from Landes. smaller fish came on 16mm krill boilies. we baited spots with the ble and trout pellet available from landes. All of our fish came at night the earliest being around 10.30pm and the latest being 7am.
The start of the week had difficult weather conditions with colder days and cold nights, but the baited areas started to produce fish after 2/3 days of constant (but not excessive) baiting. By the end of the week both margins and baited areas in the middle of the lake had produced.

Expectations were exceeded by several times !
Very very pleased with everything. Having said that I really must complain about the incredibly long wi-fi password which took me three attempts to get right!! (Only joking!)

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Definitely
Definitely

This was the first time we had done a trip like this and cannot make any comparisons, so I can only say how delighted we all were with the venue as a whole, and our hosts Kim and Tony who made us very welcome. We went with the goal to beat our pb's which meant getting into the 30's, and we all achieved that which was great. We were getting a little concerned after no sign of fish for a whole day and night that we were doing something wrong, but we stuck at it and it came together in the end. For us it was the nights that produced despite trying all we could during the day they didn't seem interested, with the exception of 3 off the surface from stalking the margins.

Sat 27th Apr to Sat 4th May 2019
Steve Burgum
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Nice mix of commons and mirrors, quite a few 30s and two 40s caught plus various sub 30s. All fish in great condition and even some of the smaller 20s gave excellent fight.

Used all different set ups but found margins fished best. We only fished daytime/evening.

To be honest we had high expectations before arriving and the reality surpassed even these.
We have fished many venues over the years and Landes is by far the best we have ever visited. Tony and Kim could not of been nicer or more helpful and the accommodation and general set up was in our opinion perfect.

Absolutley could not fault.

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Absolutely
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As close to perfection as carp fishing and accommodation gets