Details of your catches:

Carp to 42lb, grass carp to 33lb and cats to 62lb. In total 56 fish between 5 people

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Fishy waters in a pellet boilie mix seemed to catch the most. Same colour hook bait as boilies in mix

Were the facilities what you expected?

Basic but exactly what was needed

Were you happy with them?

Yes 100%

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Definitely

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Definitely

General Comments:

Very good fishing for lots of catches. Not the biggest but its deffo a runs water and that's what you expect. David was very helpful.

Details of your catches:

42 fish: 26 grass carp 41.4LB 7 cats biggest 62LB 2 mirrors biggest 29LB 7 common biggest 49.4LB

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Far bank

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 the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

Really liked the venue, as expected (need to remove bream), apart from that brilliant.

Details of your catches:

26 fish between the 3 of us. Cats up to 98lb and carp to 50lb

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Bottom swim and far margin produced most of our bites. Mixture of venue supplied pellet and maize mix’s with sticky baits boilies. Changing hookbaits from day to day wafters bottom baits and pop ups all produced bites through the week. Having a bait boat is defiantly an advantage and sometimes bites would come within 30mins of redoing the rods. Cats defiantly fight well and would come during the day. Good layout for a social water.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes, they are just as described and as per photos on here.

Were you happy with them?

Yes. They are sufficient for a drive and survive venue! Water is nice and hot!

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Always! Have had nothing but good customer service and experience through Angling Lines over the years.

General Comments:

Details of your catches:

Fishing was poor, probably because of the algae. We had had 4 cats to 75lb and 6 carp to 40lb between 3 very experienced carp anglers. We saw little or no movement in the lake and nobody had a run in the last 3 days of the holiday. *Angling Lines note* We are incredibly sorry that you had such an unproductive week. The owners understand that the algae is not nice to look at - it is the result of exceptional weather conditions across France this summer. However, they assure us that the oxygen levels in the water are acceptable. The owners are fish farmers with generations of experience so we have to accept their opinion on this, coupled with previous catch reports.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Not enough action to be able to say with any confidence, we all tried the far margin and when that proved in-effective tried moving off the far bank. Didn't make much difference. As we were all trying different baits to steal a run it's difficult to highlight any one.

Were the facilities what you expected?

No, much worse. In fact the worst facilities we have come across since we started fishing in France in 2009.. As a minimum we expect a clean WC with a light. We got a horrible dirty toilet which we had to share with 4 strangers and no light. Showers were good but not to UK standards of cleanliness. *Angling Lines note* Other customer feedback tells us that our description of them as ‘very basic’ is accurate – we know they’re some of the simplest we have on our books and make sure to display photos online. HOWEVER, any cleanliness issues (over and above what you’d expect from a week’s use) we would absolutely have addressed if made aware at the time. You definitely should have clean facilities - but the owner should also have the opportunity to put it right at the time. We had major problems with rats and feral cats, we put traps down and caught 20 rats in 4 days. They were everywhere, in the bivvy's under bed chairs in the cook tent. They even managed to get up on the tables in the cook tent. None of the party has ever seen so many rats at a venue. The cats followed them and destroyed the cook tent every night. It wasn't nice being woken during the night with a rat on your bivvy table or under your bed chair. *Angling Lines note* We agree that would have been very unpleasant, this was the first time a customer has reported an issue with rats and if made aware at the time we would have made sure the owners brought traps down. He has now acted to resolve the issue. The lake is nowhere near the advertised 5 acres, I have since measured it at about 170,000ft2 which is marginally under 4 acres. *Angling Lines note* We measure it at 4.5 acres using the google maps area calculator and we have now amended the site to account for that 0.5 of an acre. The original size of 5 acres was taken from property deeds - we appreciate how important accuracy is and wholeheartedly apologise for this. The banks are in a terrible and dangerous state and landing heavy cats or launching and retrieving boats is really difficult and dangerous. *Angling Lines note* Again, no other feedback this year mentions this. We do however appreciate water levels are lower across France and have asked the owner to look as to whether there is an issue because of this.

Were you happy with them?

No we were not

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

This is the worst Angling Lines venue we have fished (and we've fished a fair few) Would we recommend the venue, absolutely not unless you want to catch Weil's disease

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Made complaints to Angling Lines bout the rats, the green algae, the exaggerated size of the lake, the feral cats, the facilities and the state of the banks. Angling Lines not interested, very disappointed.

General Comments:

We've been using Angling Lines since 2009 and have become used to nice, productive and safe venues. This venue does not fall under any of these descriptions. We've already booked next years holiday, that will be the last with Angling Lines. *Angling Lines Note* This feedback was raised by the client upon their return, we then systematically addressed every issue raised with the owner and have since spoken to the customer in full regarding every point via email and telephone - we absolutely care if a customer believes there is a problem with their holiday and would always investigate thoroughly.