Details of your catches:

2 anglers; Biggest 3 catfish 82, 77.08, 75. Loads (far too many!!) between 45 & 50 lbs. Grass carp x1 @ 40.02 Mirror carp x 1 @ 33.14 Common carp x 1 @ 29.12 Numerous bream around 6lb mark, and two pike around 5lbs each.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Struggled to find anything the catfish wouldn’t eat! The 82 was on tiger nut, as were most of the bream. The 70’s were on PB wafters. Scent from hell wafters were like crack for the catfish!! The grass carp came from a fake corn topped essential Salami Cream hard hooker, and other carp were on PB wafters. Didn’t catch enough carp to make much of a judgment on best baits…but avoid fishmeal based if carp are your goal.

Were the facilities what you expected?

As expected- decent sized freezer (may struggle if 5 anglers bring plenty of bait however), and three fridges, a microwave and toaster. Nice little rowing boat (essential to land some of the catfish), but sadly no electric outboard. Nice hot shower with good pressure- Only 1 English socket in the kitchen, so additional ones would be really helpful - or a UK extension

Were you happy with them?

They were more than adequate for a weeks fishing- electric motor for the boat would certainly help.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

In all honesty, I would only recommend the lake to a catfish angler. The lake is full of them, and getting through to the carp proved extremely difficult. Too difficult. I appreciate that’s fishing, and captures aren’t guaranteed, but unless something is done about the numbers of catfish then the carp fishing will likely continue to suffer.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Definitely recommend Angling Lines, Jo has been really helpful and had done her best to answer any questions, keep updated with shuttle times etc. Unfortunately for her, when she checked about the weed on our behalf, she was given duff information!

General Comments:

A very pretty lake, with little road noise; a really chilled out setting with really easy motorway access from Calais. Just the one toll about 5 mins from the lake costing around 21 euros each way. There are no ‘swims’ as such so you can set up wherever you fancy it, although the terrain would limit you. Water levels clearly rise (had been ten foot higher at the start of the year when the lake had to be shut), so nice sleeper lined, level swims clearly not an option here. The water had dropped several feet the week before we arrived, making the banks pretty treacherous in places. I would 100% recommend bringing rubber matting to stop you slipping ar5e over t1t!!! We both had a few incident where we ended up in the water while playing catfish in the night! Our biggest disappointment (apart from the lack of carp caught), was the amount of weed in the lake. I had checked before arriving, and was assured the weed wasn’t an issue, and there was just some in the margin and shallow bars. The reality is however, that there are many very large weed beds made up of a very sharp weed that cost as numerous fish over the week: as soon as fish kited into a bed, the rod would make a horrible grating sensation and the line would part. We reeled in so many rigs during the week it was crazy, so obviously not the only ones to be affected. Even after getting out in the boat with a large weed rake and dragging for six straight hours, we hardly made a dent on it, and needed to get out in the boat to land many of the catfish that you simply couldn’t stop! If we’d know the lake contained this type of weed, in the amount it does, then we would have come prepared with heavy duty snag leaders. A real frustration when we’d specifically asked this question. A big thinning out of catfish is essential. We got to the point of just flopping back 45+ pounders without a photo as there were so many being caught. There was a large empty plastic pond liner with aerator, where we were asked to put small catfish or pike in, but it wasn’t feasible to carry them round the lake to drop them off- these are needed all round the lake if the goal is to thin the catfish population. I’m sure we’d read there was an electric outboard for the boat, but this is not the case. I would have brought one if I’d known Really liked the access, with the ability to drive around the entire lake to drop off gear. Setting up in some areas proved challenging however as many of the banks are steep and slippery , so it was impossible to set up bivvy up. You could drop back to the road, (but would be some way from your rods), but then you’d cut off access for vehicles. Not an issue for us, as it was just two anglers, but could be squeeze if 5 anglers arrived, (especially with the weed), and would suggest a max of 4 when weed is present.

Details of your catches:

5 Leathers from 29 – 36lb, 1 common at 21, 1 Koi at 20, 6 Cats, 2 of which were over 60lb

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

For the carp Spinner rigs on a clear area with pineapple pop ups.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes, this was our second visit so we knew exactly what to expect

Were you happy with them?

Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

Details of your catches:

21 fish between us, 5 mirrors biggest was 50lb and 43lb then had 3 30s, then 1 30lb common Also had 2 catfish 57lb and 76lb And rest was grass carp biggest being 45lb

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Tiger nuts and boilies

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes

Were you happy with them?

Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes definitely

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

Details of your catches:

27 fish in total all above 32lb. Biggest 125lb cat, 66lb cat, 53lb mirror, 48, 45, 44, 40, 39, 35 mirrors, 42, 36 common, 47, 35 grass

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Boilies and tiger nut

Were the facilities what you expected?

Very good

Were you happy with them?

Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes but take plenty of insect spray

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Without a doubt

General Comments:

Top fish great place